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[]
Source:[3]
- 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