Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'White Cranberry'
Colorway: White/Cranberry · Style code: 1042A164-103 · Release date: September 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'Black White' (1042A164-001) · Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'White Smoke Blue' (1042A164-102) · Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'White Amethyst' (1042A164-104) · Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'Lapis Lazuli Blue' (1042A164-400) · Asics Wmns Gel Challenger 13 'Peacoat Smokey Rose' (1042A164-401)
Below the three shoes ASICS builds for competitive tennis sits a second tier, and the GEL-Challenger is the more substantial half of it. The brand aims it at casual and improving players: relatively light, relatively flexible, and built from materials chosen for value rather than for surviving a slide every point.
What it keeps is the GEL cushioning ASICS first put into running shoes in 1986 and has used across its sports ever since, a silicone-based insert that absorbs impact at the heel. Combined with a synthetic upper and a hard-court outsole pattern, that covers most of what a weekend player actually needs.
Above it sit the GEL-Resolution, Court FF and Solution Speed FF; below it, the cheaper GEL-Dedicate. White with Cranberry is the traditional tennis read on a shoe: a clean upper with a single accent colour running through the stripes.