All Racquet Sports articles – Page 19
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Joma launches its own padel racquet
The growing popularity of padel tennis, where Spain remains the leader, has led Joma Sport to add padel racquets to the product ranges of its various brands. Joma presented its new racquet at a special international event during the finals of the World Padel Tour Master, for which the brand ...
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ArticlePadel Nuestro acquires Definitely Time2padel
The Spanish specialty retailer Padel Nuestro has achieved worldwide retail domination in the sport of pádel, following its acquisition over the past two weeks of Definetely Time2padel, along with its Time2padel and Padelmania banners and its Mystica brand of paddles. The terms and the price paid remain undisclosed. The company, ...
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Nov. 23 Short Stops: Blue Tomato - Buff – SRAM - Tennis Warehouse
Distribution: +++ Ultimate Nordic Bikes has taken over the distribution in Norway of SRAM and its brands, including RockShox, Avid, Truvativ, Zipp and Time, starting on Nov. 1 Product: +++ Buff, the leading supplier of sustainable neck and head accessories made in Spain, is ...
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McEnroe brothers to play Antarctica’s first tennis match
John and Patrick McEnroe, the legendary American brothers who have both retired from professional tennis, will be playing the first official tennis match to take place in Antarctica. The events company LegendsAbroad.com and the sports and entertainment agency Octagon are organizing a trip there for the occasion for an “intimate ...
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Blackroll partners with the German Tennis Federation
A Swiss-based supplier specializing in sports preparation and recovery products, Blackroll, is the newest partner of the German Tennis Federation (DTB). With immediate effect, Blackroll will equip all four DTB national bases in Hanover, Kamen, Stuttgart and Oberhaching with products from the areas of activation and regeneration. This is intended ...
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ArticlePromising tennis sales in Europe for H1 2021
According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), sales of tennis racquets and strings for the first half of this year rose in all eight of Europe’s major tennis markets: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. Year-on-year growth in volume (45.3%) outpaced growth in value (40.7%), with ...
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Macron enters the padel tennis segment
Macron, the Italian company specializing in licensed teamwear, has presented its first complete line of clothing, equipment and accessories for padel tennis, including even five models of racquets, made in Spain, for beginners and more experienced players. The garments are said to be technical as well as comfortable and elegant. ...
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On Running gets involved in tennis
On Running, which counts Roger Federer among its investors, has signed on to become an official footwear sponsor for the Laver Cup, a tennis tournament due to be played out in Boston on Sept. 24-26. The Swiss company has designed a limited-edition, comfortable and stylish Roger Advantage Laver Cup shoe ...
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Tennis-Point opens an expansive flagship in Madrid
As Tradesport reports, Tennis-Point has opened a large physical flagship store in Madrid, not far from the Bernabeu football stadium, as part of its multi-channel proposition. At about 1,200 square meters, it is twice the size of the store in Barcelona proper – the Catalonian city’s largest racquet and paddle ...
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Spain’s Zcebra is the first European pickleball supplier
According to Palco23, Xiana López has invested €52,000 into Zcebra, the company she founded at the start of this year. Headquartered in Guadarrama, near Madrid, the Spanish company is Europe’s only producer of pickleball paddles, balls, nets and apparel, serving 22 of the continent’s countries. López and a graphic designer ...
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ArticlePadel Nuestro under new ownership
According to CMDsport, the holding company Backspin Capital Investments has acquired Padel Nuestro and appointed a new CEO, Iñigo Colomina Fajardo, who is the chief executive of Colomina Investments of Madrid. The Spanish pádel retailer’s founders – Ismael Cancho Lozano, José Ignacio Simón Marín and Pascual López Cuadra – signed ...
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Aug. 23 Short Stops: Padel Master - Nike
Product & Marketing +++ Padel Master has announced the launch of a new website for padel tennis enthusiasts, PadelMaster.net, featuring reviews, buying advice, and comparisons of accessories and equipment +++ Retail & Distribution +++ Nike has launched its Rise store concept, which combines digital and physical channels to ...
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Padel Nuestro opens its first store in Belgium
Padel Nuestro has inaugurated a store in Kalmthout, in the Belgian province of Antwerp. It is the Spanish retailer’s first point of sale in Belgium. It is an “Express” store, like the one that the chain has in Rome. These stores are located within padel clubs and have smaller inventories ...
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Global participation in tennis is on the rise
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has just released the “ITF Global Tennis Report 2021,” which shows a positive outlook for tennis compared to the 2019 report, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2021 report indicates that there are now more than 87.2 million players in the 41 nations ...
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Naomi Osaka teams up with an artist on co-designed Yonex tennis products
Naomi Osaka has collaborated with an influential Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami, to co-design a limited-edition Yonex tennis racquet and the accompanying bag. Osaka and Murakami have re-imagined the silhouette of the Ezone racquet, decorating it with the artist’s signature cherry blossom motif atop a white base. The player’s name, “Naomi,” ...
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Tennis Australia launches its own venture capital fund
Tennis Australia, the governing body for tennis in Australia, has announced the creation of Wildcard Ventures, a new entity that will identify and invest in early-stage companies focusing on technologies across sports, health and entertainment. Tennis Australia is the latest sports organization to launch its own venture capital fund to ...
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Fila signs up tennis rising star Robin Montgomery
Fila has announced the signing of Robin Montgomery, one of the most promising American tennis players. Montgomery, who is only 16 years old, has worn the Fila brand on-court since 2015 but with the company’s announcement, she officially joined the Fila’s elite roster of sponsored Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and ...
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Decathlon launches Tennis eSports at flagship store in London
Until Thursday Sept. 30, the Decathlon store in London Surrey Quays will present the world premiere of Tennis eSports, in partnership with VR Motion Learning. Customers will have a chance to play realistic virtual reality (VR) tennis in the 300-square-meter space that the store has specially devoted to the experience. ...
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Fila releases tennis collection designed by Oliver Spencer
Fila is releasing a sportswear collection designed by the British designer Oliver Spencer and inspired by a combination of the brand’s own history in tennis apparel and the Wes Anderson movie The Royal Tenenbaums. For this collection, Spencer has developed a terry-towel corduroy dyed in Fila’s Auckland Navy, Auckland Red ...
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Japanese tennis open gets cancelled again
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are going ahead as scheduled, with multiple restrictions. However, the executive committee of the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis tournament have decided to cancel the event, which was due to take place in September, because of Covid-19. The committee mentioned in particular the border enforcement and ...
