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Post by jimm on Jan 9, 2008 14:27:16 GMT
Isner and Jankovic switch to new model Prince racket One is 6’9”, routinely fires off serves in the 140’s and is one of the most promising up and comers on the men’s tour. The other is a slender, consistent baseliner ranked #3 in the world who has her sights set on reaching #1. Two very different body types with very different styles of play, yet next week, at the first Grand Slam of 2008, American John Isner and Serbian Jelena Jankovic will both be carrying the same racquet in their bags - the O3 Speedport White.
As with many other ATP and WTA touring pros, the benefits of the O3 Speedport White were undeniable for Isner and Jankovic. Both knew immediately after playtesting it that it was the frame they needed to take their games to the next level.
“The fact that both John and Jelena - players with completely different playing styles and physical attributes - responded immediately to the benefits of this racquet, is remarkable, and very unique,” said Linda Glassel, Vice President of Marketing for Prince. “The response that the O3 Speedport White is generating from elite level, knowledgeable players is further testament to the universal appeal O3 technology has among a broad range of players.”
With the introduction of the O3 Speedport White, Prince expands its increasingly popular Speedport series, continuing its approach of providing players with frames that are proven to succeed on Tour. The racquet incorporates features that serious players are looking for in their racquets and is available in two string patterns, the O3 Speedport White (16 x 19) and the O3 Speedport Pro White (18 x 19) for players wanting a racquet with a denser string pattern.
Isner, will go with the 16 x 19 open string pattern of the O3 Speedport White. He had used the O3 White - the continued racquet choice of Maria Sharapova and many others - to capture the 2007 NCAA championship for the University of Georgia and reach the third round of his first-ever US Open last summer,.
“Making the switch was an easy choice for me,” said Inser. “I love the O3 White, but I wanted, and got, a little extra racquet speed with the Speedport White. It has a very comfortable, solid hitting feel allowing me to really hit out, but also put great touch and spin on shots when I need to. I am very impressed with its composition and overall feel and am pumped up to head into my first full year on tour with this racquet.”
Jankovic, who wanted a little more pop on her serve and groundstrokes, and who previously played the O3 Red and playtested the Ozone Seven, wanted the denser string pattern of the O3 Speedport Pro White.
“It is funny to think that I am using the same racquet as a guy who is 6’9”, and hits serves and groundstrokes as hard as John does, but I am not surprised,” said Jankovic. “It is such a great frame with exceptional weight and balance and provides incredible control and racquet speed, that I am sure the decision for John was as easy as it was for me. It is rare that a racquet can appeal to so many types of players, but I think this is one of those instances and I know there are already a number of players with this in their bag.”
Wilson has real copetition now
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Post by jimm on Jan 10, 2008 0:34:13 GMT
DDF extends sponsorship of WTA Tour Staff Report Published: January 10, 2008, 00:56 St. Petersburg, USA: The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour announced yesterday that Dubai Duty Free (DDF), one of the world's leading airport retailers, has extended its sponsorship of the Tour through 2011. Under the four-year, multi-million dollar agreement, Dubai Duty Free will continue as the Tour's premier sponsor in the Asia-Pacific/Middle East region and establish a major digital media presence through the Tour, among other innovative benefits. Cornerstone of the new partnership is DDF's presenting sponsorship of the Tour's new Video on Demand (VOD) digital media platform located at www.sonyericssonwtatour.com, which will feature on-court match highlights, off-court player personality features and a host of additional new content geared to enhance fans' behind-the-scenes access to the players who make women's professional tennis one of the most exciting sports today. The VOD platform is a central element of the Tour's new digital media strategy. In addition to the VOD platform, other unique elements of the new DDF-Tour partnership include expanded television news service that will continue to enhance the global exposure of women's tennis and the DDF brand to television fans throughout the world through weekly match highlights, player interviews and off-court coverage.
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Post by jimm on Jan 10, 2008 0:37:26 GMT
2008 is an Olympic year and Maria Sharapova already has her mind set on gold. Next week, when the sports world watches the 20 year-old tennis superstar take to the court for her first round match at the Australian Open, she will be debuting, over her shoulder, the first piece from her new Sharapova Gold Collection of bags. Designed by Maria, and produced in partnership with Prince, the Sharapova Gold Collection will unite cutting-edge and top quality design features with stunning and luxurious aesthetics never seen before in a bag collection.
“I absolutely love working with Prince and had the best time taking this collection from initial drawings to final product,” said Sharapova from Melbourne. “First, they are supreme quality tennis bags and totes designed specifically to meet the needs of players. Second, they are gold and who doesn’t love gold? It is always in style and these bags look fantastic when they are over the shoulder or in your hand.”
Aside from being both a Wimbledon and US Open champion and the world’s most recognizable female athlete, Sharapova is also establishing herself as an international fashion icon and respected designer. Her unmatched understanding of player needs and keen fashion sense combined with Prince’s obsession with delivering the most innovative, performance-driven equipment, resulted in a world-class line of bags, available in a six-pack, triple, tote, mini tote and backpack.
“In my opinion, players should head to the court with equipment that not only delivers in terms of quality and design, but also looks great,” said Sharapova. “This collection accomplishes both and I am excited to unveil the first piece when I take the court next week in Melbourne.”
Made primarily of heavy-duty gold nylon, the outside of the bags also feature accents of black in the strap and quilted black patent leather for the Prince logo.
“Maria is the rare combination of someone who pays close attention to the intricacies of performance equipment and also has a trend-setting sense of style and fashion,” said Linda Glassel, Vice President of Marketing and Brand Image for Prince. “She helped usher in the future of racquet design with O3 technology, and always has her finger on the pulse of the fashion world. With this collection, she has once again shown her abilities in both areas and it couldn’t be more perfect that we are launching it during an Olympic year, when gold is on everyone’s mind, including Maria’s.”
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Post by jimm on Jan 10, 2008 13:57:20 GMT
Players complain balls are too big
By Margie McDonald January 10, 2008
THE marriage between the Wilson ball and the Plexicushion court being used in Australia could hand an advantage to heavy hitters Marat Safin, Andy Rodthingy and Rafael Nadal, according to Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
After losing 6-3 3-6 4-6 to baseliner Dmitry Tursunov, from Russia, in the second round of the Medibank International in Sydney, Gasquet questioned the wisdom of using the heavier ball, claiming it would favour players with greater physical strength over those who relied on finesse.
"I think the balls are difficult," Gasquet said.
"The surface is great, no problem, but the balls are too big. I really don't like these balls. For the shoulder, it's hard. It's really hard for my serve, for my game. I don't know why they use these balls. The court is great, but not the balls."
Another Frenchman, Fabrice Santoro, thought the court surface played slow and the Wilson balls were heavy.
"I think if you put light balls and fast balls, the court is going to be quite quick," Santoro said.
Australia's No1, Lleyton Hewitt, agreed the balls became "fluffy" on the Plexicushion surface but he wasn't sure the stronger players would have a leg-up at the Australian Open.
"I don't know if that's the case," Hewitt said.
"Sometimes guys that sit out there and grind, sometimes it favours them as well because they don't miss and the other guys find it harder to hit winners against them. You can look at that both ways."
One of the power hitters of the women's game, world No.2 Svetlana Kuznetsova, from Russia, the 2004 US Open winner, said the equipment suited her.
"The ball is slower, especially like on the fifth, sixth game," she said.
"Yeah, you have to use a little bit of power.
"Sometimes, if you don't play it really good, the ball stops and it's very comfortable for your opponent. The balls are heavy but, for me, I like that."
Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said the Wilson ball, which has been the tournament's ball for three years, would be reviewed.
"I think it's really important for people to remember Plexicushion is not a new surface here in Australia or in the rest of the world, and the balls that are developed are not new balls for the surface," Tiley said.
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Post by jimm on Jan 10, 2008 14:02:51 GMT
Chip Le Grand | January 11, 2008
JELENA DOKIC has described as "hell and back" the journey she has taken from the depths of depression, when she sat in her Croatian home less than a year ago unable to contemplate picking up a racquet, to her return to the professional tour. Dokic
Jelena Dokic during her match in Melbourne against Marina Erakovic from New Zealand, Thursday January 10, 2008. Picture: John Anthony
After pushing aside New Zealand's Marina Erakovic in the first round of qualifying for next week's Open, Dokic also revealed the extent of her physical transformation since first reporting for work at Melbourne Park less than three months ago.
When Dokic began training in October, having not set foot on a practice court for the previous seven months or played a WTA event for the previous two years, her weight had ballooned to 83kg, leaving her too embarrassed to shed her tracksuit pants.
When she walked off the court yesterday afternoon, having moved well throughout her straight-sets win over Erakovic despite temperatures topping 40C, she revealed her weight was down to 67kg; the result of an intense, disciplined regime of training, conditioning and diet.
"I think it is about 16kg now that I have lost - I have obviously a couple more to go," she said. "I started in the middle of October exactly, so it hasn't even been a full three months yet and I am very proud of my progress. If you told me a month ago that I would do as well as I did in Hobart and even win the first match here, I would have been pretty happy.
"Even mentally it is a different story. I have been very positive throughout the whole thing. I have tried to be a bit of a perfectionist and to get everything in order because that is what I need to do.
"I am really starting from scratch and there is no easy way to go through that. I have really worked hard on everything and really sacrificed a lot the last three months."
At 24, Dokic still has plenty of work to do if she is to regain the fitness and form that took her to the semi-finals of Wimbledon and, briefly, No4 in the world. She believes her ideal playing weight is 62kg.
More importantly, she needs her ranking to improve to the point where she can avoid the cut-throat qualifying draws, which she has had to negotiate in Hobart and Melbourne. Given the extent of the personal and professional crisis she has emerged from, Dokic believes the worst of it - and the worst years of her life - are behind her.
While she would not detail the issues she has spent two years confronting, she gave a rare insight into the dysfunctional private life of a troubled star.
"It is not like I just went on a holiday and wasn't here for two years," she said. "I had a lot of issues I had to sort through and, mentally, I had to just be able to play and be able to enjoy tennis.
"That is the thing I have missed the most and that is the thing that has suffered the most. I have really missed it, but I had to wait for the right frame of mind to play again.
"The kind of situation I was in the last two years, I am happy to be sitting here right now.
"It has been a long road. It has been a lot of hard work and a lot of nights that I haven't slept through. This is just something that needed to happen. I thought I would never pick up a racquet again."
Having rediscovered her joy for the sport, Dokic is happier now than perhaps any time since 1999, when she was a Sydney schoolgirl who stunned the tennis world by beating defending champion Martina Hingis in the first round at Wimbledon.
Her story since has become one of the most bizarre in world sport - shaped by conspiracy theories against the WTA, switching nationality from Australia to Serbia and back to Australia again, and culminating in absurd claims from her father Damir that she had been abducted by her boyfriend.
But after surviving the public disintegration of the relationship with her father, her painful decline through the tennis ranks and her self-imposed exile from the women's Tour, Dokic can again see tennis for what it used to be; a game she loves playing.
"I feel like, honestly, I have been through hell and back so this is just fun for me right now," she said. "If I win I am really happy, but if I lose, at the end of the day, it is just a tennis match.
"I haven't had a great life and a great couple of years so I am really just enjoying this. This is the thing that I will always love, no matter what happens in my life off the court. That is all I want to do right now."
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Post by SuperMarion on Jan 10, 2008 15:32:18 GMT
DDF extends sponsorship of WTA Tour Cornerstone of the new partnership is DDF's presenting sponsorship of the Tour's new Video on Demand (VOD) digital media platform located at www.sonyericssonwtatour.com, which will feature on-court match highlights, off-court player personality features and a host of additional new content geared to enhance fans' behind-the-scenes access to the players who make women's professional tennis one of the most exciting sports today. The VOD platform is a central element of the Tour's new digital media strategy. In addition to the VOD platform, other unique elements of the new DDF-Tour partnership include expanded television news service that will continue to enhance the global exposure of women's tennis and the DDF brand to television fans throughout the world through weekly match highlights, player interviews and off-court coverage. Thanks Jim sounds good MBOD
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Post by SuperMarion on Jan 10, 2008 15:49:00 GMT
Players complain balls are too big By Margie McDonald January 10, 2008 Gasquet questioned the wisdom of using the heavier ball, claiming it would favour players with greater physical strength over those who relied on finesse. "I think the balls are difficult," Gasquet said. One of the power hitters of the women's game, world No.2 Svetlana Kuznetsova, from Russia, the 2004 US Open winner, said the equipment suited her. "The ball is slower, especially like on the fifth, sixth game," she said. "Yeah, you have to use a little bit of power. "Sometimes, if you don't play it really good, the ball stops and it's very comfortable for your opponent. The balls are heavy but, for me, I like that." Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said the Wilson ball, which has been the tournament's ball for three years, would be reviewed. I thought there were ITF had rules specifying the weight and dimension of balls.
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Post by SuperMarion on Jan 10, 2008 16:13:49 GMT
Chip Le Grand | January 11, 2008 JELENA DOKIC has described as "hell and back" the journey she has taken from the depths of depression, when she sat in her Croatian home less than a year ago unable to contemplate picking up a racquet, to her return to the professional tour. Dokic Jelena Dokic during her match in Melbourne against Marina Erakovic from New Zealand, Thursday January 10, 2008. Picture: John Anthony After pushing aside New Zealand's Marina Erakovic in the first round of qualifying for next week's Open, Dokic also revealed the extent of her physical transformation since first reporting for work at Melbourne Park less than three months ago. When Dokic began training in October, having not set foot on a practice court for the previous seven months or played a WTA event for the previous two years, her weight had ballooned to 83kg, leaving her too embarrassed to shed her tracksuit pants. When she walked off the court yesterday afternoon, having moved well throughout her straight-sets win over Erakovic despite temperatures topping 40C, she revealed her weight was down to 67kg; the result of an intense, disciplined regime of training, conditioning and diet. "I think it is about 16kg now that I have lost - I have obviously a couple more to go," she said. "I started in the middle of October exactly, so it hasn't even been a full three months yet and I am very proud of my progress. If you told me a month ago that I would do as well as I did in Hobart and even win the first match here, I would have been pretty happy. "Even mentally it is a different story. I have been very positive throughout the whole thing. I have tried to be a bit of a perfectionist and to get everything in order because that is what I need to do. "I am really starting from scratch and there is no easy way to go through that. I have really worked hard on everything and really sacrificed a lot the last three months." At 24, Dokic still has plenty of work to do if she is to regain the fitness and form that took her to the semi-finals of Wimbledon and, briefly, No4 in the world. She believes her ideal playing weight is 62kg. More importantly, she needs her ranking to improve to the point where she can avoid the cut-throat qualifying draws, which she has had to negotiate in Hobart and Melbourne. Given the extent of the personal and professional crisis she has emerged from, Dokic believes the worst of it - and the worst years of her life - are behind her. While she would not detail the issues she has spent two years confronting, she gave a rare insight into the dysfunctional private life of a troubled star. "It is not like I just went on a holiday and wasn't here for two years," she said. "I had a lot of issues I had to sort through and, mentally, I had to just be able to play and be able to enjoy tennis. "That is the thing I have missed the most and that is the thing that has suffered the most. I have really missed it, but I had to wait for the right frame of mind to play again. "The kind of situation I was in the last two years, I am happy to be sitting here right now. "It has been a long road. It has been a lot of hard work and a lot of nights that I haven't slept through. This is just something that needed to happen. I thought I would never pick up a racquet again." Having rediscovered her joy for the sport, Dokic is happier now than perhaps any time since 1999, when she was a Sydney schoolgirl who stunned the tennis world by beating defending champion Martina Hingis in the first round at Wimbledon. Her story since has become one of the most bizarre in world sport - shaped by conspiracy theories against the WTA, switching nationality from Australia to Serbia and back to Australia again, and culminating in absurd claims from her father Damir that she had been abducted by her boyfriend. But after surviving the public disintegration of the relationship with her father, her painful decline through the tennis ranks and her self-imposed exile from the women's Tour, Dokic can again see tennis for what it used to be; a game she loves playing. "I feel like, honestly, I have been through hell and back so this is just fun for me right now," she said. "If I win I am really happy, but if I lose, at the end of the day, it is just a tennis match. "I haven't had a great life and a great couple of years so I am really just enjoying this. This is the thing that I will always love, no matter what happens in my life off the court. That is all I want to do right now." Dokic has been to hell and back. From the frying pan into the fire. I have every sympathy with her attempt to shake off the shackles of an abusive control freak father. I guess she was vulnerable, and that's how she ended up with the Bilic brothers. All she has ever try to do is retain her own personal boundaries. Ownership of her own life and career. I really hope this attempt to return to the tour or even the upper echelons of the challenger circuit will be succesful. She has done quite well so far, and surprised some 'tennis fans' who had written her obituary. Also, that is an incredible amount of weight loss in that period of time... I hope she isnt taking anything dodgy. I have dropped two dress sizes.. but that's taken nearly 6 months of running 5 miles a day and avoiding fatty sugary foods. But there's more to do. 8 miles today. Hoping to up things even more. Dokic hadnt trained in 7 months. I hadnt trained in exactly 7 years!
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Post by jimm on Jan 10, 2008 17:59:01 GMT
I go for a walk when the weather permits, and have an exercise bike. I getting one of thos rowing machines as well. The gym is 20 miles away in stornoway, so why bother if I can do most of it in the house
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Post by jimm on Jan 12, 2008 12:36:25 GMT
Australian Open: MCG tennis in the skyArticle from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print Submit comment: Submit comment January 12, 2008 06:00pm TENNIS took to the skies yesterday as four of the game's top players had a hit in the unlikeliest location.
A three-quarter size court was built under cover of darkness on Thursday and Friday nights for the unconventional knock on top of the MCG's scoreboard.
Light-weight painted boards were lifted high above the MCG by a special rig inside the scoreboard.
Marcos Baghdatis, Ana Ivanovic, Alicia Molik and Brydan Klein, needed a detailed safety briefing before scaling dozens of stairs inside the scoreboard for their unique game.
But they were too dazzled by the view to bother keeping score.
At least one tennis ball was hit off the edge of the court.
Adidas marketing director Simon Millar (MILLAR ok) said whoever who found the ball was welcome to keep it, and should consider it a collector's item.
"Marcos and Ana were both delighted with the view. It was pretty special up there,'' he said.
``I knew when coming to the Australian Open that we would be playing on a different surface, but this is certainly taking it to the extreme,'' Marcos Baghdatis said.
`The court was constructed as a stunt to launch the latest Adidas shoe, the Barricade V.
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Post by jimm on Jan 13, 2008 12:44:25 GMT
World No.4 Ana Ivanovic signs landmark contract with YONEX Tokyo, Japan – Ana Ivanovic, who on Monday will rise to a career-high ranking of No.3 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, has signed potentially the biggest racket endorsement deal in the history of tennis. The 20-year-old has agreed a four-year contract with Yonex and will use the Japanese manufacturer’s products immediately. “I’m delighted to join Yonex,” said Ivanovic. “I spent a lot of time testing their rackets and I was thrilled to discover that they add something to my game. “It was the first time I was trying new rackets, and it was a great feeling to be able to play so well with them. I’m very excited about playing with this new racket.” Ivanovic will become the global face of the brand and will play with the black RQiS-1 TOUR racket. She will also use Yonex accessories, such as racket thermos and grips. Both Ana’s rackets and bag will have her name written/embroidered on. “We are very excited to have Ana in our team,” said Yonex International Division General Manager Wataru Hirokawa. “Yonex always demands young prospective players who can win Grand Slam titles and capture the No.1 ranking. We believe that Ana is the one who can do that in the very near future. “Ana is not only a great athlete with strong passion on-court but she is keen to study finance at university; she always wants to improve herself. Passion on court and intelligence off-court are characteristics that match our company image. Of course, she is also a very charming young woman.” Ivanovic added: “I love visiting Asia, and I’m looking forward to spending more time in Japan thanks to this agreement. That’s another little thing that makes me very happy to sign this contract.” The agreement is the latest record -breaking deal for Ivanovic: her adidas contract is believed to be one of the most lucrative since Steffi Graf’s retirement, while last summer she signed the biggest ever endorsement deal in Serbia. I like Ana. She has a lovely nature and a fine player
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Post by jimm on Jan 17, 2008 18:32:46 GMT
"I told him, 'You look like an assassin with that jacket on'. He said he has a cold so he had to put the hood up." Maria Sharapova on dad Yuri's fashion faux-pas
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Post by SuperMarion on Jan 18, 2008 9:26:42 GMT
Bling Daddy! I like!
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Post by jimm on Jan 28, 2008 1:10:42 GMT
Sharapova wins Australian Open with a Prince O3 racquet At only twenty years old, Maria Sharapova has already captured three of tennis’ four major titles. With her Prince O3 White in hand, Sharapova soundly knocked off the No.1, No. 3, and No. 4 seeds on her way to capturing her first-ever Australian Open title.
From the moment she took to the court for her first round match carrying her new gold racquet bag over her shoulder, Sharapova was completely focused on the task at hand. The fifth seed, who dedicated much of the off season to her fitness, showed no signs of an ailing shoulder that plagued her for much of 2007. Rather, over the course of two weeks, Sharapova made clear that she was the one to beat – wowing crowds with a display of power, shot-making and the controlled intensity she is known for - ultimately defeating Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3 in the finals.
“It has been such an amazing two weeks and an awesome start to 2008,” said Sharapova after the win. “Everything just felt right – the way it should. It is nice to be able to head out on court knowing I am in good shape physically, have the best equipment and completely focused. It allows me to play my game and do what I need to do to win a championship as tough as this. I will never forget this experience and hope to keep it going throughout the year.”
Sharapova, who won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon when she was seventeen, was one of the first players on the tour to pick up a racquet with Prince’s ground-breaking O3 technology. She made the switch to the O3 White in 2006, before going on to capture the US Open title that same year. Since its introduction, O3 has converted more than 100 ATP and WTA touring pros, including the world’s #5 men’s singles player (Nikolay Davydenko), #1 men’s doubles team (Bob and Mike Bryan), four of the world’s top ten women’s singles players (Jankovic, Sharapova, Hantuchova, Bartoli), five of the top six women’s doubles players (Huber, Raymond, Srebotnik, Stosur and Sugiyama), and a host of young up and comers (John Isner, Sam Querrey, Shahar Peer). In fact, at this year’s Australian Open, for the first time ever, three of the four women in the singles semifinals (including Sharapova) were playing racquets with O3 technology. Serbian Jelena Jankovic played her first major with the new O3 Speedport Pro White using it to knock off last year’s champion Serena Williams in straight sets before running into Sharapova in the semis. On the other side of the draw, breakout star Daniela Hantuchova, made her first Grand Slam semi-final appearance carrying the Ozone Seven, a racquet she made the switch to last summer. Since making her switch to O3, Hantuchova has steadily climbed in the rankings and when the new rankings come out on Monday Hantuchova is expected to move to #8 – a career high for the 24 year-old Slovakian.
Sharapova did not drop a set throughout the tournament and the win marks her seventeenth career WTA singles title overall.
“Maria capped what was a remarkable tournament for Prince players and O3 technology and we are extremely proud of and excited for her and for all of our players who competed,” said Linda Glassel, Vice President of Marketing at Prince Sports, Inc. “Maria has been a part of the Prince team since she was quite young and she repeatedly amazes, not only through what she accomplishes on the court, but also for what she brings to the game off of the court as well and no one is more deserving of this title than her.”
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Post by jimm on Jan 28, 2008 1:11:45 GMT
Djokovic and his Wilson [K] Blade win Australian Chamnpionship Wilson [K]Factor rackets continue their strong momentum to start off 2008 with Novak Djokovic making the switch to his new [K]Blade Tour model and winning his first major title at the Australian Open. Another player who made the switch to Wilson’s new [K]Blade 98 was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from France, who has now burst into the Top 20 with his unbelievable showing at the Australian Open where he beat several top seeded players, including Rafael Nadal, to reach his first major final.
Wilson players overall dominated the Australian Open with not just 3 of the 4 men’s semi-finalists playing [K]Factor, but Wilson players Jonathan Erlich & Andy Ram went on to take the men’s doubles title as well as the Bondarenko sisters (Alona & Katheryne) coming through to win the ladies doubles title with their new [K]Blade and [K]Tour rackets.
“We’ve already had such great success with our [K]Six.One family of rackets, seeing our new [K]Blade family have this kind of immediate impact is very exciting”, said Jon Muir, global General Manager of Wilson Racquet Sports.
“Novak playing the new [K]Blade Tour and then Tsonga playing the new [K]Blade 98 re-enforces our belief that the [K]Blade family of rackets, including the [K]Blade Team that Venus & Serena have also now switched to, will have a big impact with players everywhere in 2008” added Muir.
“All of us at Wilson want to congratulate all of our players, especially Novak, on such a strong performance to start off 2008 and winning his first Grand Slam title” added Jon Muir, “It’s going to be a very exciting 2008”.
Wilson was the #1 brand amongst tour players in 2007 (according to the official 2007 Wimbledon survey) and continues to be the #1 racket brand purchased by consumers worldwide.
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