All Racquet Sports articles – Page 8
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News briefsPadel Galis founder invests in Auro System
Francisco Pérez Galisteo, founder and CEO of Padel Galis, has bought a majority stake in Auro System, according to the International Padel Cluster (CIP). Auro produces an attachment for pádel and tennis racquets that both helps corrects a player’s grip and dampens the racquet’s vibration. Padel Galis is a maker ...
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News briefsTennis-Point finds new owner
According to SGI USA, Fromuth Racquet Sports, a Pennsylvania-based racquet sports wholesaler and retailer, has reached an agreement to acquire e-tailer Tennis-Point on undisclosed terms to expand into the tennis e-commerce space. Tennis-Point will initially operate as an independent company and will retain the same name and contact details. All ...
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News briefsSpanish firm introduces photochromic pádel glasses
Bikkoa has launched new pádel glasses, a photochromic version of the Goat model, designed for both indoor and outdoor play – and to withstand the impact of a ball traveling at 180km/h. The chief selling point here is the lenses, which are photochromic through and through in their polycarbonate material ...
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News briefsStarVie now producing courts
StarVie, maker of pádel racquets, has expanded into pádel-court production, forging a partnership with a fellow Spanish firm, Global Padel Court. StarVie describes the new product – the Revolution 360 – as a 360-degree panoramic court, whose lack of a corner pillar leaves the field of vision open, especially for ...
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ArticlePádel players now number 30 million worldwide
The International Padel Federation (FIP) has released the 2024 edition of its World Padel Report, which has pegged the number of pádel players worldwide at 30 million and the proportion of women among them at 40 percent. More than half of the players are in Europe, with another quarter or ...
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News briefsBullpadel hits the UK’s e-tail mainstream
The distributor MRH Sport has struck a deal to sell Bullpadel pádel racquets through John Lewis. We learn this from The Padel Paper, according to which John Lewis is the first major department store in the UK to stock pádel racquets for online sale. Some 18 Bullpadel racquets are now ...
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News briefsWomen’s tennis and Saudi investment fund announce multi-year deal
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and Public Investment Fund (PIF) have unveiled a multi-year partnership that is meant to grow women’s professional tennis and inspire more women and girls around the world to take up the sport. As part of the agreement, PIF will become the first-ever naming partner of ...
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News briefsFila Holdings reports flat Q1 net
Fila Holdings’ constant currency net income increased by 0.1 percent to 123,330 million Korean won (€84.1m) against KRW 118,257 million for the period ended March 31. The Q1 operating profit declined by 2.6 percent on a constant currency basis to KRW 163,259 million (€111.3m) compared to KRW 160,379 million. The ...
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ArticleLululemon and Life Time launch co-branded apparel for pickleball's surge
Lululemon has announced a deeper collaboration with Life Time to promote their shared interests in pickleball, highlighting the ongoing expansion of the sport in the U.S. The partnership will see the release of a co-branded apparel line featuring both men’s and women’s gear. Notable items include a women’s asymmetrical tank ...
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ArticleA look at racquet sports in the US
RacquetX and marketing agency LaneTerralever (LT) published a report titled Who’s on the Court: A Profile of Today’s Racquet Sports Player, available online, to lay out the results of a survey they conducted in February of this year. The sample was 506 people in the US who have played “at ...
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News briefsTarget jumps on the pickleball trend
Source: Prince Prince for Target US retail giant Target has announced a limited-time pickleball collection in collaboration with tennis and lifestyle brand Prince. According to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s (SFIA) 2023 Topline Participation Report, pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the US, and now ...
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News briefsRafael Nadal invests in Playtomic
Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal is investing in Playtomic, the largest racquet sports community in the world. The financial terms were not disclosed. Playtomic is a booking app for padel and tennis courts that is active in more than 50 countries and operates with more than 4,800 clubs worldwide. Founded ...
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News briefsCenterline Athletics debuts line, partners with pro pickleball player
Centerline Athletics, a new player in the performance apparel market, recently launched its line, targeting both men and women. The brand kicked off with a strategic partnership with Thomas Wilson, a Top 10 Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) athlete. Centerline Athletics says it distinguishes itself with its innovative Griptek technology, promising ...
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News briefsSiux expanding abroad fast
Between last year and this first quarter of 2024, the pádel brand Siux has entered 35 countries – 18 of them in Africa and ten in Asia. So explains Alfonso Torrón, Brand Manager, who has spoken with Palco23. The list includes Siux’s first locations in Oceania. The brand entered Japan ...
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News briefsRayox foresees a Spanish pickleball boom
Two years ago, three Spaniards – Samuel Rodríguez, Daniel Rodríguez and Jordi Francés – founded a racquet factory in the US – in Waterbury, Connecticut, to be exact. They called it Rayox Sport. “Samuel told us from the US that pickleball was sweeping the market, and we decided to take ...
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ArticleIs Topgolf Callaway on the market? South Korean sources says so
Speculation is swirling after a South Korean newspaper suggested that golf behemoth Topgolf Callaway might be up for grabs.
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News briefs360 Padel Group hires CEO
360 Padel Group has hired Sascha Beyer as its CEO, as we have learned from CMDsport and confirmed on the blog of one of the group’s divisions, Padel Nuestro. Beyer served as Tennis-Point’s Managing Director from 2016 to 2023 and its CEO for North America from 2021 to 2023, leading ...
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ArticleOn opens first store in Germany
As part of its global retail expansion, the Swiss brand On opened its first German community store in Berlin on March 15, where customers will have access to a full range of On products. To date, the brand operates 32 stores worldwide and plans to open 15 to 20 new ...
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News briefsSpanish pádel brand to give factory tours
StarVie is opening its factory to public tours, according to TradeSport. The factory is located in Azuqueca de Henares, Spain, and purported to be the largest of its kind in Europe. Visitors will be able to see the full production line, from design to finished product, and then test racquets ...
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ArticleTennis-Point Spain seeks new CEO
Tennis-Point Spain and its CEO, Miquel Just, agreed on Feb. 29 to sever the contract they signed exactly four years earlier, according to CMDsport. It was Just who urged Tennis-Point’s entry into Spain, with a first store in Mataró. Five more stores followed, in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Alcorcón and Alfafar ...
