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Industry | Sports equipment |
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Founded | 1875 |
Headquarters | Lyons, France |
Products | Racquets, strings, accessories and shoes. |
Revenue | €141.2 million (2014) |
Number of employees | 369 |
Website | babolat.com |
Babolat /ˈbɑːboʊlɑː/ is a French tennis, badminton, and padel equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by professional and recreational players worldwide. The company has made strings since 1875, when Pierre Babolat created the first strings made of natural gut. Babolat continued to focus on strings until 1994, when it became a "total tennis" company, producing also racquet frames and selling them in Europe. It then expanded sales to Japan, and later to the United States in 2000. Sales of Babolat racquets increased rapidly in North America and Europe. Babolat is also a pioneer in connected sport technology and launched a connected tennis racket in 2014[1] and a connected wrist-worn tennis wearable with PIQ in 2015.[2] The Babolat Pop is used worldwide, and one of the leaders in tennis sensors.
Notable Products
[edit]Strings
[edit]RPM Blast, one of the most popular polyester strings known for its spin potential.
VS Gut, a leading and original natural gut string
Racquets
[edit]Pure Aero (formerly AeroPro Drive) known for its spin potential and usage by Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.
Pure Drive blue power-oriented racquet used by Andy Roddick.
Sponsorships
[edit]Men
[edit]Source:[3]
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Federico Delbonis
Thanasi Kokkinakis (to 2021)
Jordan Thompson
Dominic Thiem
Thiago Monteiro
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Cristian Garín
Carlos Alcaraz
Rafael Nadal
Albert Ramos Viñolas
Stéphane Houdet
Benoît Paire
Cameron Norrie
Fabio Fognini
Taro Daniel
Yūichi Sugita
Evgeny Donskoy
Mikael Ymer
Ryan Harrison
Maxime Cressy
Sam Querrey
Jack Sock
Luke Watson
Women
[edit]Samantha Stosur (to 2018)
Kirsten Flipkens
Elise Mertens (to 2018)
Yanina Wickmayer
Eugenie Bouchard (to 2018)
Leylah Fernandez
Wang Xinyu
Zheng Saisai
Ana Konjuh
Karolína Plíšková
Kristýna Plíšková
Garbiñe Muguruza
Anett Kontaveit
Alizé Cornet
Heather Watson
Sara Errani
Camila Giorgi (to 2021)
Yulia Putintseva
Magda Linette (to 2022)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (to 2014)
Amanda Anisimova (to 2022)
Jennifer Brady
Danielle Collins
Sofia Kenin
Retired players
[edit]Mariano Puerta
Samuel Groth
Kim Clijsters
Fernando González
Li Na
Peng Shuai
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Caroline Wozniacki
Carlos Moyá
Pauline Parmentier
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Johanna Konta
Julia Görges
Francesca Schiavone
Agnieszka Radwańska
Nadia Petrova
Dinara Safina
Elena Vesnina
Viktor Troicki
Timea Bacsinszky
Dominika Cibulková
Catherine "CiCi" Bellis
Andy Roddick
References
[edit]- ^ Kiss, Jemima (2015-05-04). "Tennis just got smarter with the Babolat Play connected racket - review". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ Palermo, Philip (2015-08-28). "Babolat and PIQ team up for a pair of wrist-worn tennis wearables". Engadget. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ "Babolat Players Sponsored". babolat.co.uk. Babolat. Retrieved Jun 12, 2020.