All Racquet Sports articles – Page 32
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The tenniswear collection designed by Stella McCartney for Adidas will...
The tenniswear collection designed by Stella McCartney for Adidas will be endorsed at the U.S. Tennis Open at the end of this month by Cariolina Wozniacki, who is already sponsored by Adidas.
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Pacific Buys Fischer Tennis
The tennis unit of Fischer, the Austrian ski brand, was taken over at the end of last month by Pacific-Entermark, a German company specializing in tennis strings, stringing machines and tennis accessories sold under the Pacific brand name. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but it will enable ...
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Yonex, the Japanese maker of golf, tennis and badminton equipment,...
Yonex, the Japanese maker of golf, tennis and badminton equipment, reported that annual turnover for the year ended March 31 grew by 2 percent to ¥37.4 billion (€282.5m-$394.4m), though this was short of the ¥39.0 billion earlier predicted. Consolidated annual net income was ¥559 million (€4.2m-$5.9m), under the forecast of ...
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Li Ning will be sponsoring the Chinese National Badminton Team,...
Li Ning will be sponsoring the Chinese National Badminton Team, which joins the teams for table tennis, gymnastics, shooting and diving.
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Head is launching a new marketing campaign for its tennis...
Head is launching a new marketing campaign for its tennis products, revolving around the No. 3 tennis player in the world that it recently signed up, Novak Djokovic. It is designed to support the launch of a new series of Speed racquets, marketed under the umbrella brand concept Youtek, that ...
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Formerly sponsored by Forza, the current world badminton champion, Tine...
Formerly sponsored by Forza, the current world badminton champion, Tine Rasmussen of Denmark, is going to endorse Babolat’s new line of badminton equipment.
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Erima, the German outfitter of team sport, running and tennis...
Erima, the German outfitter of team sport, running and tennis enthusiasts, recorded sales of more than €48 million, up by 2 percent in 2008. The former Adidas brand made roughly 52 percent of its sales in its home market, where it increased by 6 percent. The company, owned by Wolfram ...
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The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic introduced his new signature...
The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic introduced his new signature Falcon range of Adidas shoes in Melbourne recently. Falcon is part of the new CC Genius Footwear and Edge apparel lines. The shoes come in separate color schemes for each of the four Grand Slams and the Master Series Cup. ...
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Head Has New People At Its Head; Closes U.S. Tennis Ball Factory
Head is asking its shareholders to vote at their general assembly in May for Günter Hagspiel as the new chief financial officer of the company. Hagspiel, who is currently controller of the group, has been with Head since 1996 in various positions, including the management of its U.S. operations. Hagspiel ...
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Head will be the official sponsor of the Catalan Tennis...
Head will be the official sponsor of the Catalan Tennis Federation.
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Fila has signed a deal that has the tennis player...
Fila has signed a deal that has the tennis player Anna Chakvetadze endorsing its products. Chakvetadze, 21 and ranked 18th at the end of 2008 by the WTA, will wear Fila’s Baseline Apparel Collection and Alfa shoe at the Australian Open. In addition, the company is designing a collection of ...
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Ttk Launches A Big Tennis Event, Moves Into The Usa
For the first time, 96 children under the age of 14 are being invited from all over Europe by this young Italian tennis apparel company for the finals of the TTK Warriors Tour, a tournament that has been played since 2004 only at the local level. As participation has been ...
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Stiga, a Swedish brand of table tennis equipment, has signed...
Stiga, a Swedish brand of table tennis equipment, has signed a multi-year deal with China’s table tennis federation to supply it with paddles, and will sponsor Feng Tianwei, an Olympic silver medalist in table tennis from Singapore.
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Sven Sixtensson is Head’s new distributor for tennis products in...
Sven Sixtensson is Head’s new distributor for tennis products in Sweden after a lot of swapping around for the brand over the past years. Sixtensson, who started out at Fischer’s tennis division 20 years ago, is known in the industry. He heads up his own distribution company, Ramverket, where he ...
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Völkl Licenses Tennis Business To Its U.S. Distributor
As of Jan. 1, Klip America will be the new global licensee of Völkl’s racquet business. For nearly 10 years, the license was in the hands of the Swiss-based Völkl Tennis GmbH, a company controlled on a 50-50 basis by Boris Becker, the tennis champion, and Hans Dieter Cleven, a ...
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Fischer is examining the future of its tennis racquet business....
Fischer is examining the future of its tennis racquet business. The Austrian ski company says it is going to halt its own tennis operations by June 30, 2009, but is in negotiations with third parties to either sell the tennis business or to license it. Fischer Sports reached annual sales ...
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The British Squash Professionals Association’s 2009 10-event circuit will be...
The British Squash Professionals Association’s 2009 10-event circuit will be sponsored by Prince UK and PeterNicolSquash.com.
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Adidas is launching a range of tennis racquets and balls...
Adidas is launching a range of tennis racquets and balls for the 2009 season on a global basis. It is putting out three adult models and a children’s racquet. They are meant to complement the brand’s offering of tennis apparel and footwear. Adidas marketed a range of racquets more than ...
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England Squash has begun a survey of people involved in...
England Squash has begun a survey of people involved in squash and racquetball to better steer the sports’ future (more information is available at www.englandsquash.com).
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ISTrading is the new Swiss distributor of Unsquashable....
ISTrading is the new Swiss distributor of Unsquashable.
