The Japanese National Junior Squash Championships are held every year in Yokohama, Japan.... (続きは以下のリンクをクリック）
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The final 3 VLOGs brought to you from the high school tournament shows scenes from the indoor courts and the second day of play which was plagued by rain. Nonetheless, play went on . . . . (click the link below to watch the videos. 続きはクリック！）
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Tecnifibre presents you 3 VLOG entries to you today. The first shows you the Bridgestone-Tecnifibre public stands including the stringing service that Tecnifibre is providing to players and to the spectators.
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The weather on the opening day of the tournament was superb: 20 degrees, sunshine, blue skies and not a cloud in sight.
The ceremony took place on centre court where all 900 players taking part marched onto the stands via the court. (click below to continue reading 続きは以下のリンクをクリック）
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There are 2 major tournaments for Japanese high schools on the tennis calender: the "Inter-High" held in august and the "Senbatsu" invitational championships (where all teams have come through regional qualifying) held in the city of Fukuoka in march. (click below to continue reading続きは以下のリンクをクリック)
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This week I am in Fukuoka, west Japan for the National High School Invitational Tennis Championships which features all the top high schools in the country. (Blog on this will appear at a later date).After the opening ceremony today,
Members of the Bridgestone Sports sales team flew down to Thailand to visit the Bridgestone-Tecnifibre tennis ball factory in the Chonburi province. The factory is jointly owned by Tecnifibre president Mr. Thierry Maissant and Bridgestone Sports.
Tecnifibre tennis balls are produced here (X-One, Club, Tour One, Champion One) as well as Bridgestone XT8 and Tour Pro balls.
Pictured here in the photo are members of Bridestone and their sales team, Kei from Tecnifibre and Taku from the BSTF factory.
After spending last week in Osaka, I went back to Tokyo and then set off again on monday night for the exhibition in Fukuoka. We had an early start (6:50am!!) to start preparing before the clients started arriving at midday. The number of clients was less than at Tokyo and Osaka but nonetheless some big and important faces arrived during the day.
After the exhibition, the sales team of Tomonori and Kenji from Fukuoka; the West Japan sales team from Osaka and Bridgestone Sports Tokyo went out for a local meal, motsunabe (beef hotpot, Fukuoka style).
After the Fed Cup we moved eastwards to Umeda, in central Osaka for the exhibition for the central and western regions of Japan. The salesforce is slightly smaller in numbers than in east Japan. Pictured here along with yours truely are the members of the West Japan tennis sales team of (from left to right) Kenji, Hideo, Hidenori, Takashi and Akihiro.
This week, I am in the western region of Japan to support TF in the area. First stop was the "Beans Dome" in Hyogo up in the mountains for the Fed Cup tie between Japan and Croatia because the Japanese distributors Bridgestone Sports had a stand. The dome is in the middle of nowhere, situated around 40 minutes from Kobe city. The weather was snowing with no central heating inside!
By coincidence, one of our TF contract players, Jelena Kostanic-Tosic was playing number one for Croatia. Naturally, she was sporting the TF logo on her racket.
Being the extremely nice and friendly person, she agreed for a short interview and a visit to our TF stand! (Shown here proudly showing her string, Promix 1.30mm). She produced a good result, beating the higher ranked Aiko Nakamura in a three set match clearly as the underdog (Photo by Mr "Matchan" Matsumoto).
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