Tennis-players footwear? (5,5)

'tennis-players footwear?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'tennis-players footwear?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'tennis' could be 'court' (court tennis is a kind of tennis) and 'court' is found in the answer.
'footwear?' could be 'shoes' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'shoes' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?