Supreme x Wilson Championship Extra Duty Tennis Balls (3-ball can)
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Wilson
Championship Extra Duty Tennis Balls (3-ball can)
About the original
The Wilson Championship Extra Duty is the bestselling tennis ball in the United States, sanctioned by the ITF and USTA for tournament play on hard courts. The Extra Duty felt uses a thicker, denser high-grade wool weave designed to survive the abrasive surfaces found at hard-court venues. Wilson Sporting Goods was founded in Chicago in 1913 and has been the official ball of the US Open continuously since 1979; the tournament uses more than 70,000 Wilson balls across the two-week event each September. The Supreme SS2018 collab is a standard three-ball pressurized can with co-branded Supreme printing on the felt of each ball and on the exterior of the can.
About Wilson
Wilson Sporting Goods is an American sporting goods manufacturer founded in 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, originally organized as Ashland Manufacturing in 1913 as a subsidiary of the Schwarzschild and Sulzberger meatpacking concern. The company reorganized under Thomas E. Wilson and renamed itself Wilson Sporting Goods in 1931. The Wilson Duke football became the official ball of the National Football League in 1941, a partnership that continues today, and Wilson also makes the official ball of the NBA, MLB, and NCAA. The company is owned by Anta Sports of China through Amer Sports. Supreme has collaborated with Wilson on basketballs, footballs, and tennis racquets.
