![]() ![]() The Air Tech Challenge II had serious on-court performance to go along with its good looks. Interestingly, McEnroe played quite well in 1989, including a win at the last ever WCT Finals. Johnny Mac was tennis’ representative on the do-it-all Air Trainer 1 and his alignment alongside Agassi for the ATC 2 can be seen as a passing of the torch. The sport already had its ‘bad boy’ in the foul-mouthed seven-time Grand Slam champ John McEnroe. Let’s travel back now to where it all started, so we understand the full context that makes this man and this particular one of his signature shoes so important.Īndre Agassi’s rebellious approach to tennis was unique but not unprecedented. It refined a technical approach introduced on the Air Trainer 1 he’d worn in ’87 and introduced the first in a series of memorable prints and colors with the ‘Hot Lava’ colorway that is about to retro for just the second time this weekend. ![]() Andre’s impact extends beyond the game whose once rigid dress code he all but destroyed, into one of the defining looks of that golden age of the late ’80s/early ’90s.Īgassi’s 1989 Nike Air Tech Challenge II is the quintessential tennis shoe from this period. That trusted British media outlet could have removed the ‘perhaps’ and it would have ruffled fewer feathers than Agassi’s rebellious image did, flying in the face of tennis traditions. The BBC described Andre Agassi as “perhaps the biggest worldwide star in history,” upon his retirement in 2006.
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