Babolat
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 | 360 |
Website | http://www.babolat.com |
Babolat /ˈbɑːboʊlɑː/ is a French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company, headquatered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players. 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 USA 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]
Babolat sponsorships
- Male players
- Rafael Nadal uses a Babolat AeroPro Drive GT (2013) strung with Babolat RPM Blast (Babolat Duralast 15L strings before 2010)
- Andy Roddick retired, previously used a Babolat Pure Drive Roddick GT ++
- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga uses a Babolat AeroPro Drive GT (2013)
- Máximo González
- Mariano Puerta
- Fernando González
- Carlos Moyá retired, previously used a Babolat Pure Drive
- Komlavi Loglo
- Sebastián Decoud
- Juan Ignacio Chela
- Igor Andreev uses an Babolat Pure Drive
- Julien Benneteau
- Sam Querrey
- Steve Johnson
- Ivo Karlović
- John Boso
- Maurice Russo
- Luis Horna
- Florent Serra
- Alejandro Falla
- Santiago Giraldo
- Robert Farah
- Fabio Fognini
- Kenneth Carlsen
- Édouard Roger-Vasselin
- Leander Paes
- Conor Niland
- Olivier Patience
- Nicolás Lapentti
- Bobby Reynolds
- Grega Žemlja
- Nicolas Devilder
- Mathieu Montcourt
- Robby Ginepri
- Jack Sock
- Michael Russell
- Wang Yeu-tzuoo
- Juan Pablo Guzmán
- Jean-Julien Rojer
- Benedikt Dorsch
- Brian Dabul
- Somdev Devvarman
- Wayne Arthurs
- Ricardo Mello
- Thiago Alves
- Franco Ferreiro
- Rogério Dutra da Silva
- Antonio Veić
- Jurića Grubišić
- Jan Hernych
- Jan Hájek
- Albert Portas
- Javier Garrapiz
- Marc López
- Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
- Pablo Carreno Busta
- Sébastien de Chaunac
- Alex Bogdanović
- Dieter Kindlmann
- Gianluca Naso
- Yūichi Sugita
- Bruno Echagaray
- Santiago González
- Victor Crivoi
- Marius Copil
- Răzvan Sabău
- George Bastl
- Daniel Thornton
- Marcel Felder
- Sam Warburg
- Justin Gimelstob
- Trevor Wright
- Jason Brown
- Thomas Sodermans
- Brian Baker
- Thomas Constantine
- Alex Bogomolov
- Russell Shaw
- Steve Avery
- Ryan Harrison
- Female players
- Caroline Wozniacki uses the Babolat AeroPro Drive
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Nadia Petrova
- Dinara Safina
- Kim Clijsters uses the Babolat Pure Drive GT
- Samantha Stosur uses the Babolat Pure Strike
- Sybille Bammer
- Francesca Schiavone uses the Babolat AeroPro Drive GT
- Sara Errani
- Agnieszka Radwańska uses the Babolat Pure Drive Lite
- Urszula Radwańska
- Rennae Stubbs
- Katarina Srebotnik
- Li Na uses the Babolat Pure Drive GT
- Julia Görges
- Vera Dushevina
- Émilie Loit
- Karin Knapp
- Meghann Shaughnessy
- Elena Vesnina
- Eugenie Bouchard
- Alizé Cornet
- Pauline Parmentier
- Caroline Garcia
- Laura Granville
- Garbine Muguruza
- Lourdes Domínguez Lino
- Kaia Kanepi
- Jill Craybas
- Lisa Raymond
- Vania King
- Yaroslava Shvedova
- Irina-Camelia Begu
- Alexandra Dulgheru
- Edina Gallovits-Hall
- Ioana Raluca Olaru
- Aravane Rezaï
- Olga Savchuk
- Mirjana Lučić
- Tatiana Poutchek
- Akgul Amanmuradova
- Sofia Arvidsson
- Maret Ani
- Maria Elena Camerin
- Séverine Brémond
- Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
- Timea Bacsinszky
- Alberta Brianti
- Martina Suchá
- Yuliya Beygelzimer
- Kirsten Flipkens
- Laura Pous Tió
- Emma Laine
- Clarisa Fernández
- Mariana Díaz Oliva
- María Emilia Salerni
- Amy Bowtell
- Sophie Ferguson
- Nicole Pratt
- Lauren Breadmore
- Valérie Tétreault
- Jessica Moore
- Sylvija Talaja
- Michaela Paštiková
- Kateřina Böhmová
- Arantxa Parra Santonja
- Estrella Cabeza
- Nuria Llagostera Vives
- María Sánchez Lorenzo
- Mónica Puig
- Elise Tamaëla
- Nathalie Viérin
- Antonella Serra Zanetti
- Adriana Serra Zanetti
- Seiko Okamoto
- Lina Stančiūtė
- Claudine Schaul
- Joanna Sakowicz
- Tatiana Panova
- Polona Rebersak
- Zuzana Kucová
- Chia Jung Chuang
- İpek Şenoğlu
- Neha Uberoi
- Shikha Uberoi
- Zheng Saisai
- Tímea Babos