Babolat

French tennis, badminton, and padel equipment company

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Babolat

Industry	Sports equipment
Founded	1875; 149 years ago (1875)
Headquarters	Lyons, 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.

Notable Products

Strings

RPM Blast, one of the most popular polyester strings known for its spin potential.

VS Gut, a leading and original natural gut string

Racquets

Pure Aero (formerly AeroPro Drive) known for its spin potential and usage by Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.

Pure Drive blue power-oriented racquet used by Andy Roddick.

Sponsorships

Men

Source:^[3]

Federico Delbonis
Thanasi Kokkinakis (to 2021)
Jordan Thompson
Dominic Thiem
Thiago Monteiro
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Cristian Garín
Carlos Alcaraz
Rafael Nadal
Albert Ramos Viñolas
Stéphane Houdet
Benoît Paire
Cameron Norrie
Fabio Fognini
Taro Daniel
Yūichi Sugita
Evgeny Donskoy
Mikael Ymer
Ryan Harrison
Maxime Cressy
Sam Querrey
Jack Sock
Luke Watson

Women

Retired players

References

^ Kiss, Jemima (2015-05-04). "Tennis just got smarter with the Babolat Play connected racket - review". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
^ Palermo, Philip (2015-08-28). "Babolat and PIQ team up for a pair of wrist-worn tennis wearables". Engadget. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
^ "Babolat Players Sponsored". babolat.co.uk. Babolat. Retrieved Jun 12, 2020.