All Racquet Sports articles – Page 12
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News briefsAdidas licensee to introduce a new pádel brand
All for Padel (AFP) is planning to field its own brand, according to a pair of reports in CMDsport. The brand is to make its debut in December (for the Christmas season); include racquets, apparel and shoes; and take aim at “the new generations.” CEO José Luís Sicre assures CMDsport ...
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ArticleTennis-Point and Tennis Channel launch online merchandise site during Roland Garros
California-based Tennis Channel and racquet and sporting goods retailer Tennis-Point, a subsidiary of Signa Sports United (SSU), have entered into a multi-year e-commerce agreement to offer tennis fans high-quality tennis apparel, equipment and accessories. The partnership includes the launch of a white-label tennis and pickleball store at www.tennis.com and a ...
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News briefsAdidas and Macklemore’s Bogey Boys reinterpret classic golf style
Source: Adidas Adidas x Bogey Boys Adidas and Bogey Boys, a golf and lifestyle brand founded by U.S. rapper Macklemore, have teamed up to “reimagine timeless styles from the 70s and 80s that established new trends for fashion, lifestyle and sports.” The new Adidas x Bogey Boys ...
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News briefsFila enters the padel scene
Source: Fila Fila made a surprise appearance as the title sponsor of the Legends Padel Trophy, which took place on June 6 and 7 at the Tolcinasco Padel Club just outside Milan. Participants were famous former footballers from Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Argentina, including two historic ...
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ArticlePGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf merge into new commercial entity
The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund (PIF) have announced a “landmark agreement to unify the game of golf on a global basis.” The transformational agreement combines PIF’s golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA Tour ...
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News briefsAdidas signs golfer Rose Zhang
Source: Adidas Rose Zhang Adidas has signed American golfer Rose Zhang to a multi-year contract. The most decorated athlete in the history of amateur women’s golf will wear apparel, footwear and accessories from the German brand as she begins her professional career on the course. Zhang’s accolades ...
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News briefsBabolat launches range of specially designed children’s racquets
Source: Babolat Babolat is introducing a range of racquets conceived, designed and developed for the specific needs of 4–12 year-olds. The range was designed based on input from the French laboratory LIBM (Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire de Biologie et Motricité), which studied what a racquet needs to avoid injuries ...
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News briefsISPO Munich to have two pádel courts
According to the Spanish Sport Association (Afydad), this year’s edition of ISPO Munich (Nov. 28–30, 2023) will have two pádel courts at the Padel Village. Brands will be permitted to set up matches there for their sponsored pros, display their wares at the Padel Village stand and ...
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News briefsPPL Cup to air on CBS
The Pro Padel League (PPL) will have its inaugural championship broadcast on television. The league has come to an agreement with the U.S. pay TV network CBS Sports, which will film the final match and air it about two weeks later, on June 22. The PPL was itself inaugurated last ...
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ArticleBjörn Borg increases sales and profit in Q1
Björn Borg AB, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2007, has started the new fiscal year with good sales and very good development in operating profit. “The fact that we increased our operating profit in the quarter to SEK 31.4 million [€2.76m], despite the continued weak krona and a troubled world, ...
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ArticleDescente forecasts 9 percent FY23 operating income growth
Descente’s annual revenues of ¥120,614 million (€815.5m) in FY22 exceeded its Nov. 2022 forecast of ¥118,000 million as the company generated higher year-over-year sales in Japan, South Korea and China. The group realized significant profit improvement in both Japan and South Korea but lower year-over-year profits in China due to ...
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News briefsRevo opens flagship store in Barcelona
Californian sunglasses company Revo, founded in 1985, has opened its first flagship store in Barcelona, Spain. The store is located in Baixada de la Llibreteria in the Gothic Quarter, one of the city’s most charming and lively neighborhoods. The newly opened store will feature the company’s full line of eyewear ...
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News briefsGolf goes meta
The sport of golf has gotten a collection of NFTs, courtesy of a Korean blockchain company. Wemade has drawn inspiration from some 110 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs – minted last year by ALTAVA Group in collaboration with Animoca Brands, The Sandbox and Elite Apes – to create some 300 ...
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News briefsPádel high over Manhattan’s 57th Street
Emerging from a field of more than 20 firms, Padelgest has won the contract to build a pádel court inside the so-called Steinway Tower, according to CMDsport. This building, the world’s slenderest skyscraper by the ratio of its base to its height (1:23), forms part of a complex called 111 ...
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News briefsFor now, chain in Madrid to expand only online
The watchwords for this year at Deportes Halcón are recovery and stability. CMDsport has spoken with its director of finance and marketing, Sandra Benito, according to whom sales for first-quarter 2023 at the four-store chain in Madrid are more or less flat. “The market,” she says, “is not easy.” Suppliers ...
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ArticleAmid racquet glut, courts maintain sales at Drop Shot
Marcelo Cascabelo, of the brand Drop Shot, believes in the continued expansion of pádel but warns of a difficult year. The chief executive revealed to CMDsport that his company’s revenues for 2022 were up by 120 percent year-on-year, amounting to €20 million, but that the figure for first-quarter 2023 is ...
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News briefsTitleist and Kjus parent Acushnet appoints new EVP/CFO
In an SEC filing dated April 3, 2023, Acushnet Holdings Corp., the parent company of Titleist, Footjoy and Kjus, announced that Sean Sullivan has accepted an offer to become executive vice president and chief financial officer of the company. Sullivan is expected to be appointed to this position by the ...
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News briefsThe women sign up for Premier Padel
Premier Padel’s president, Luigi Carraro, appears to be as good as his word. As we reported last week, the league has been promising to bring women into its tournaments over the course of the current season. Indeed, Carraro said, the only reason the women weren’t playing already in the Ooredoo ...
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News briefsTop Spanish pádel shop helps expedite recycling
Pádel Nuestro has signed a deal with Bown Sports & Sustainability, a promoter in Spain of a recycling initiative whose name, er, sounds like “sustainables.” Source: Pádel Nuestro The objective of the SustainaBalls program is to collect used tennis and pádel balls. It does this by setting ...
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News briefsResurgent racquet brand, resurgent racquet
Snauwaert saw the light of day in Belgium in 1928 and went under in the early 1990s, only to reemerge in 2020, after nearly 30 years of dormancy, in another land: Italy. The brand released its high-end, eponymous racquet, the “Snauwaert,” in the 1970s and followed it up in the ...
