Who Plays With Babolat Tennis Rackets?
Babolat is a French company that produces tennis rackets, string, balls, footwear, and apparel. Some of the world’s top tennis players use Babolat rackets, including Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, and Stan Wawrinka.
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal, who is also known as “The King of Clay”, is a Spanish tennis player who has won nineteen Grand Slam singles titles, thirty-one Masters 1000 series titles, nine ATP 500 series titles, and a record-tying Olympic gold medal in singles.
Early life and background
Rafael Nadal was born in Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. His father, Sebastián Nadal, is a businessman who owns an insurance company as well as a glass and window company. His mother is Ana María Parera, a housewife. He has a younger sister named María Isabel. His uncle Toni Nadal is a former professional tennis player and now works as his coach. Growing up, Nadal played both tennis and football. He is a lifelong supporter of Real Madrid.
Professional career
Nadal joined the ATP Tour in 2004, and became the first male player to win two Grand Slam tournaments before the age of 21 by winning Roland Garros in 2005 and 2006. In February 2009, at age 22, Nadal became the sixth man in tennis history to achieve the Career Grand Slam by winning the Australian Open. Nadal then went on to win Wimbledon for a second time in 2010, becoming one of only seven men to have won Wimbledon more than once.
In 2011, Nadal added an Olympic gold medal to his trophies when he defeated fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the final of the singles event at the London Olympics. Later that year, Nadal helped Spain win its second Davis Cup title in three years by winning both his singles matches as Spain defeated Argentina 4–1 in Seville.
Nadal’s successes have seen him likened to other great players from other generation such as Björn Borg and Rod Laver, as well as to his contemporary Roger Federer.
Achievements
Rafael Nadal has won 19 Grand Slam singles titles, the second most in history for a male player, as well as 37 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 20 ATP Tour 500 titles, and 11 ATP World Tour Finals. In majors, Nadal has won a record 12 French Open singles titles, three US Open singles titles, two Wimbledon singles titles, and one Australian Open singles title. He was also a member of the winning Spanish teams in the Davis Cup in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011. In 2010, he became the seventh player in history and youngest of four in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam at age 24. He is the only male player to win all four Grand Slams on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard court).
Andy Murray
Andy Murray is a professional tennis player from Scotland who is currently ranked number 2 in the world. He has won three Grand Slam singles titles and two Olympic gold medals. Murray is also a two-time Wimbledon champion, having won the tournament in 2013 and 2016. He is the first British player in 77 years to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles.
Early life and background
Andy Murray was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Judy Murray (née Erskine) and William Murray. His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine, was a professional footballer in the late 1950s. Murray is a supporter of Hibernian Football Club, one of the teams his grandfather represented. He also attended Dunblane Primary School. He and his brother Jamie were present during the Dunblane school massacre on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and 1 teacher before killing himself; both brothers were unharmed. Andy Murray says he was too young to understand what was going on. When asked by an interviewer how he responded after hearing news of the shooting while he sat in his classroom on that day, Murray replied:
“I don’t know. I didn’t know what had happened until after…it just sort of happened really quick so I didn’t really have time to think about it.”
Murray quota went on to attend Dunblane High School. He played tennis for Scotland under-14s and under-16s, but his biggest achievement came at age 15 when he reached the final of the British Under-18 Championship where he lost to David Sherwood from England. Following his loss at that tournament, Murray did not compete again until September 1998 at age 16 when he again reached the final of the British Under-18 Championship where he defeated James Cluskey from Ireland 6–3, 6–2 before losing to Richard Gasquet in straight sets 6–2, 6–1 in France a few weeks later.
Professional career
Andy Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland currently ranked world No. 37 in men’s singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting activities and is a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion, winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals, and former world No. 1.
As a junior player, Murray saw strong results. He reached his first senior singles final at the age of 19 when he contested the RBS Pro Challenge event on the ATP Challenger Tour (now known as challenger level events). In March 2005, he announced his arrival on the main tour by defeating world No. 4 David Nalbandian in Miami on route to reaching his first Masters Series semi-final where he lost to eventual champion Roger Federer. The following year he reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final at the US Open before losing to David Ferrer, but then won his first title on grass at Queen’s Club a few weeks later. In 2007, Murray won his first ATP Masters Series title at Cincinnati defeating world No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the final and followed this up with victory over Marcos Baghdatis in the Thailand Open final later that year for two back-to-back tournament wins for the first time in his career.
Achievements
Murray has won three Grand Slam singles titles, two Olympic gold medals in singles, and a record-equalling two Wimbledon Mixed Doubles titles. He achieved the world No. 1 ranking for the first time on 7 November 2016. He first became British No. 1 on 27 February 2006, when he surpassed Tim Henman’s British singles ranking of world No. 4 that had stood for more than four years. Murray is also a five-time recipient of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (2013, 2015–2017), and was named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year in 2016.
Murray has played tennis professionally since he was 15 years old and was ranked No. 40 in the world when he turned pro at 18 in 2005. In his first four years on tour (2005–2008), Murray won ten ATP Challenger Tour titles and reached his first final on the ATP Tour at Queen’s Club in 2006, which he lost to world No. 1 Roger Federer in straight sets. His breakthrough came at the 2007 United Kingdom Championship under mentor Leon Smith, when he defeated world No. 4 Rafael Nadal for his maiden title at that level; victory over Nadal propelled him into the top 50 of the ATP rankings for the first time a week later, where he ended 2007 ranked world No. 38.[11] By early 2009, Murray had reached a career peak ranking of world No. 5 after winning consecutive tournaments on clay courts in Marseille and Valencia and reaching his second Masters final at Cincinnati Masters—where he again lost to Nadal—in back-to-back weeks leading into that year’s French Open
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a professional tennis player who has been ranked No. 1 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He has won numerous Grand Slam titles, including Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and the US Open. Djokovic has also won a gold medal in singles at the Olympic Games.
Early life and background
Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), to Srdjan and Dijana (née Janković) Djokovic. He has two younger brothers, Marko and Djordje. His father owned a pizza parlor at the time of Novak’s birth and later worked as a commodities trader. His mother is a schoolteacher. He was raised as a Catholic.
Djokovic began playing tennis at age four, spending hours on the court with his older brother Marko; they played tennis together until Marko went away to college when Novak was seven years old. At age five he participated in his first tennis tournament where he received a special award for most outstanding player of the tournament. When he was six years old, his talent was discovered by Yugoslav tennis great Jelena Genčić, who started coaching him three times a week. At age eight he began serious training at the Tennis Academy in Osterode-am-Harz, Germany; he quit school to concentrate on tennis full-time.
Professional career
Novak Djokovic has been one of the sport’s leading players since he first burst onto the scene as a talented teenager. He has won numerous Grand Slam titles and is widely considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Djokovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1987. His father, Srdjan, was a former professional soccer player. His mother, Dijana, worked in a bank. Djokovic has two younger brothers, Marko and Djordje.
Djokovic began playing tennis at age four. He later recalled that his earliest memories of tennis were watching videos of Yugoslavian star Monica Seles winning Wimbledon in 1992.
In 1998, Djokovic entered his first international tournament, theranean Junior Cup mercilessly . . .
Achievements
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, five ATP Finals titles, 32 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 13 ATP Tour 500 titles, and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a total of 209 weeks.
Djokovic has won numerous awards, including the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, Wimbledon Champion of Champions, and BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. He has also been named ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion three times each, and ATP Tour’s Fans’ Favorite Singles Player of the Year six times.
Serena Williams
Serena Williams is one of the most successful tennis players of all time. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other tennis player in history. She has also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, four Olympic gold medals, and is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.
Early life and background
Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan, to parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price. She has four older sisters: Venus Williams, Isha Williams, Lyndrea Lewis, and Yetunde Price. Her father has been credited with the introduction of Serena and Venus to tennis. He bought them a tennis racket when they were four and five years old, respectively. When the girls were young, he took them to local tennis tournaments where they played against adults much older than themselves. In 1992, when Serena was eleven and Venus nine, Oracene relocated the family to West Palm Beach so that the girls could be home-schooled and receive professional tennis training at Rick Macci’s tennis academy.
Professional career
Serena Williams has been professional since September 14, 1995. She has won an Open Era record 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the history of professional tennis, and an all-time record 15 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles. Williams is also a five-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships in the singles division. Williams has won a record four Olympic gold medals, one in women’s singles and three in women’s doubles, along with a silver medal in mixed doubles. Alongside her sister Venus, she holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by a tennis player (4), and is tied for second place with Martina Hingis behind Janet Jackson for the most Grammy Awards won by a female athlete (2).
Achievements
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as No. 1 by a female tennis player. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the Open Era among female tennis players.
Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, most by any man or woman in the Open Era, and four Olympic gold medals. She is also a record-equalling eleven-time doubles champion (tied with The Astreas), winning those titles with her sister Venus Williams. Those victories include seven Women’s Doubles Grand Slam championships and an all-time record four Olympic gold medals in women’s doubles; all of these accomplishments came while partnering with her sister Venus Williams, with whom Serena has played numerous matches since they turned professional in 1998–99 (including all 116 of their joint victories as a team).
She has also won four Mixed Doubles Grand Slam titles and two Olympic gold medals–both while playing with Max Mirnyi of Belarus–and holds the most major titles ever won by a mixed doubles team at 15 (surpassing Mike Bryan’s then-record of 14). By winning three Mixed Doubles Grand Slams in 2015, Serena joined Martina Hingis as only the fifth woman to complete a Career Golden Slam in mixed doubles (Career Golden Slams are rarer than regular or non-calendar year Grand Slams as they require winning one title of each Grand Slam event, including at least once after turning 30).
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova is a Russian tennis player who has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. With 36 singles titles, Sharapova is seventh on the all-time list . She has won ten Grand Slam titles, including two French Opens, two Wimbledons, and one Australian Open.
Early life and background
Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Russia. Her parents, Yuri and Yelena, are from Gomel, Belarus. Concerned about the regional political situation, they decided to emigrate to Siberia. At age six, Sharapova enrolled in a tennis clinic run by Martina Navratilova and began receiving daily one-on-one coaching sessions with veteran Russian coach Yuri Yutkin. Two years later she was entered in her first professional tournament, the under-12 Orange Bowl in Moscow.
Professional career
Sharapova’s professional career began at the age of 14. She made her debut on the WTA Tour at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, defeating Alyona Bondarenko en route to a first-round loss to Ai Sugiyama.
In 2003, Sharapova won her first WTA title, the Japan Open Tennis Championships. She defeated Lindsay Davenport in the final.
Sharapova’s breakthrough came at age 17, when she defeated two-time defending champion Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final to win her first Grand Slam singles title. This made her the third-youngest woman to win a Grand Slam singles title (after Monica Seles and Martina Hingis), and the first Russian woman to win Wimbledon.
Achievements
Maria Sharapova has achieved a lot in her tennis career. She is a five-time Grand Slam winner, ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women’s singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
