The ITF Grade A tournament in Osaka is taking place this week.
Some of the best juniors in the world are here to play this event, including 3 Tecnifibre international contract juniors: Timea Babos (HUN), Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) and Francis Alcantara (PHI).
Pierre-Hugues and Timea both play their quarter-final matches in singles and semi-finals in doubles today.
More and more visibility of Tecnifibre bags, rackets and strings on tour in Japan. . . . .
During the WTA Tour Premier tournament in Tokyo last week, Gisela Dulko made an appearance at a special TECNIFIBRE event commemorating the introduction of the Rebound Pro range in Japan.
Special clients of our Japanese distributor (Bridgestone Sports), as well as Tecnifibre fans of all ages came to the event to have their pictures taken, momentos signed, ask her questions and of course to hit some balls with Gisela. All in all, a successful day for Tecnifibre!
Dear all,
it's a long time I did not inform you about Tecnifibre actions "around the world". This week, part of Tecnifibre Team, has travelled to Japan in order to meet the board of our Japanese partner, BRIDGESTONE SPORTS. It's a long trip and a very different country and culture that we are discovering here. For some of us, Japan means also some new habits to take: suit and tie, crowded streets and subways and open space offices...
Japan has become a very important market for our brand Tecnifibre in the last 3 years, gaining important market shares in string business and introducing the new TF rackets. Our success in Japan helps us a lot to develop our business also in whole Asia. Among those countries: Korea, Thailand and China, our next destinations...Sayounara!
While our contract players are fighting the heat and the stiff competition in Melbourne, our Japanese distributors, Bridgestone Sports are displaying Tecnifibre products and announcing new promotions to customers in the Tokyo area.
Seen here is Mr. Shirai, a Roland Garros offical stringer from 2005.
Dear TF fans,
this week, Guillaume (our Sport Marketing Manager) and I are visiting Japan, Tokyo. Today, on the demand of one of our best Tecnifibre retailer in Tokyo, Guillaume brought and donated to Tennis Paradise's owner, the racket of our Top player, Marcos Baghdatis, with Marcos signature.
Now this racket will stay in the "Museum" of this tennis fanatic team, where we could find also some shirts from Bjorn Borg, one racket of Michael Chang, another one from Ivan Lendl and many other souvenirs... We had a very nice time visiting this shop today, remembering us some of the Top players of the last 20 years. Congratulations to Tennis Paradise for this large collection of Tennis history. We, Tecnifibre, are proud to be part of it now! We also wanted to congratulate the Tennis Paradise team for their strong involvment in Tecnifibre strings and racket promotion over the last 2 years. Long life to such tennis specialists... once again a strong example of "adding passion to your game".
The Japanese national squash championships were held last weekend in Yokohama. The men's championships were won by Japanese number one, Yuta Fukui.
At 20 years of age, Yuta signed a contract with Tecnifibre earlier this year. He plays with the Suprem NG130 racket. After his victory, he stated "I haven't lost a match since changing to Tecnifibre so I am so happy."Tecnifibre and its Japanese squash distributor First Wave would like to congratulate him for this result.
You can visit his website at www.yuta-fukui.com
After the long but successful week at the Japan Open in Tokyo, I flew west to Osaka where the World Super Junior tournament was being held.
The tournament holds a Grade A category, which is the same level as the Junior Grand slams. 2 Tecnifibre contract players are fighting it out in the 28 degrees october heat: Pierre Hughes Herbert (Tfight 320 and X-One Biphase) from France and Timea Babos (Tfight 295 and Duramix) from Hungary.
You can track their progress by clicking the link below:
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournamentoverview.asp?tournament=1100017780
Tecnifibre wishes them success in both singles and doubles!
Big success for Tecnifibre in Japan last week with a great job from TF/Bridgestone. Many highlights:
1. The large 150inch LED board playing Tecnifibre products presentations, interviews, RG 20th anniversay video, VO2 Max video etc.
2. Gisela Dulko autograph session.
3. Interview with Gisela Dulko (available soon TF fans!)
4. Free distribution of 5000 red Tecnifibre vinyl bags over 2 days.
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The ATP and WTA Japan Open starts with week featuring some big names in mens and womens tennis. Our tour team player, Gisela Dulko arrived in Tokyo on saturday after flying in from Beijing. Today she hit the practice courts with her new T-Fight 295 VO2Max racket.
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