- Prince Sports
Infobox Company
company_name = Prince Sports Inc.
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company_slogan = Rule the court
company_type = Public
foundation = 1970
location = flagicon|USABordentown, NJ ,USA
key_people =Bob McClure , founder
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industry =Sporting goods
products =Racquet s, Apparel,Accessories , Ball Machines, Tennis Equipment
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homepage = [http://www.princetennis.com www.princetennis.com]
footnotes =Prince Sports, Inc. is an American manufacturer of equipment for racquet sports.
Based in
Bordentown, New Jersey , Prince Sports manufacturestennis ,badminton , and squash equipment. Its trademarks include Prince (tennis, squash and badminton),Ektelon (racquetball ) and Viking (platform/paddle tennis). The company has produced the first "oversize" and "longbody" racquetsFact|date=May 2008, the first "Natural Foot Shape" tennis shoeFact|date=May 2008, the first "synthetic gut" stringFact|date=May 2008 and the first electronic ball machineFact|date=May 2008. Prince markets technologies in racquets (O3), string (Recoil), footwear (Precision Tube Technology) and apparel (Aerotech).The company was started in 1970 as a manufacturer of tennis ball machines, and went on to manufacture
racquet s.Prince in professional tennis
Players currently using Prince racquets are:
*Nikolay Davydenko
*Sam Querrey
*John Isner
*David Ferrer
*Maria Sharapova
*Bob Bryan
*Mike Bryan
*Juan Carlos Ferrero
*Jelena Jankovic
*Shahar Peer
*Xavier Malisse
*Daniela Hantuchova
*Ai Sugiyama
*Vania King
*Samantha Stosur
*Bob the Builder External links
* [http://www.princetennis.com Prince site]
* [http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2008/08/prince_returns_to_tennis_promi.html Prince returns to tennis prominence]
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