What’s the difference between tennis shoes and sneakers? And that one is a little trickier, just because where I grew up it wasn’t particularly unusual to have those essentially be synonyms.
And what I mean by that is, quite often, your sneakers would be what you might wear to play tennis on a court, especially, if you weren’t, say, using basketball shoes or more stylized kind of sneakers and sneaker designs. Tennis shoe designs were maybe a little more basic 30-40 years ago. So, it wasn’t necessarily uncommon to have sneakers being sold as the same kind of tennis shoes that John McEnroe or Chris Evert or Jimmy Connors might have an endorsement deal for. Especially you remember, you know,
Converse having both basketball style shoes and tennis slash sneaker style. I think there was like a Jimmy Connors model or some such might have been Converse, he might have had a deal with another brand, but for a long time, were quite interchangeable.