Babolat
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Industry | Sports equipment |
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Founded | 1875 |
Headquarters | Lyon, 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.
Sponsorships[]
Men[]
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Federico Delbonis
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Jordan Thompson
Dominic Thiem
Thiago Monteiro
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Cristian Garín
Rafael Nadal
Albert Ramos Viñolas
Stéphane Houdet
Benoît Paire
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Cameron Norrie
Fabio Fognini
Taro Daniel
Yūichi Sugita
Evgeny Donskoy
Viktor Troicki
Mikael Ymer
Ryan Harrison
Sam Querrey
Jack Sock
Women[]
Samantha Stosur (to 2018)
Kim Clijsters
Kirsten Flipkens
Elise Mertens (to 2019)
Yanina Wickmayer
Eugenie Bouchard (to 2018)
Peng Shuai (to 2015)
Wang Xinyu
Zheng Saisai
Ana Konjuh
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Karolína Plíšková
Kristýna Plíšková
Garbiñe Muguruza
Anett Kontaveit
Alizé Cornet
Johanna Konta
Heather Watson
Sara Errani
Camila Giorgi (to 2021)
Yulia Putintseva
Magda Linette
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (to 2014)
Elena Vesnina
Timea Bacsinszky
Amanda Anisimova
Catherine "CiCi" Bellis
Jennifer Brady
Danielle Collins
Sofia Kenin
Retired players[]
Mariano Puerta
Samuel Groth
Fernando González
Li Na
Caroline Wozniacki
Carlos Moyá
Pauline Parmentier
Julia Görges
Francesca Schiavone
Agnieszka Radwańska
Nadia Petrova
Dinara Safina
Dominika Cibulková
Andy Roddick
References[]
- ^ Kiss, Jemima (2015-05-04). "Tennis just got smarter with the Babolat Play connected racket - review". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ Palermo, Philip (2015-08-28). "Babolat and PIQ team up for a pair of wrist-worn tennis wearables". Engadget. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ "Babolat Players Sponsored". babolat.co.uk. Babolat. Retrieved Jun 12, 2020.
External links[]
- Tennis equipment manufacturers
- Badminton equipment manufacturers
- Sporting goods manufacturers of France
- Companies established in 1875
- Sport in Lyon
- Manufacturing companies based in Lyon
- 1875 establishments in France
- French brands