RareAirShoes.com Australian Exclusive

"C'mon!" cried Hewitt as his opponent slammed the ball into the net for another unforced error.

To highlight the start of 2005 ATP, Nike decked out their marquee players in latest Dri-Fit materials (although released late in 2004) which were in an awesome and highly distinctive colorways to match that of the Nike Air Zoom Vapor Speed, the signature shoe of Australian tennis star, Lleyton Hewitt along with Roger Federer.

With Hewitt's success as well as other Nike-sponsored players like Federer and Agassi, many of the shoes, shirts and shorts in this line sold out by the completion of the Australian Open and are next to impossible to find and extremely rare. The exceptionally lightweight and comfortable soft Dri-Fit fabric keeps the wearer dry by moving perspiration for the skin to the outside for rapid evaporation. These shorts have tiny rubber beads to keep the shorts in position around the waist to maximise comfort levels for the wearer.  It must have worked to some degree?

In what was a memorable Australian Tennis Open in 2005, Lleyton Hewitt steamrolled his way to the finals where he met Marat Safin. In the grand slam final, Safin emphatically ended Hewitt's bid to become the first Australian Open champion since Mark Edmondson won the 1976 Australian Open at Kooyong.

Since August 2005, Hewitt has since signed with Tennis racquet giant YONEX for both footwear/apparel along with his tennis equipment therefore making these lines of footwear and apparel unique pieces of tennis history.

Men's US Size - Sold Out

AUD$59.00

16 January 2007