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Babolat is a French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players.

The company has made strings since 1875, when Pierre Babolat created the first strings made of natural gut.

Babolat continued to focus on strings until 1994, when it became a "total tennis" company, producing also racquet frames and selling them in Europe.

It then expanded sales to Japan, and later to the USA in 2000.

Sales of Babolat racquets increased rapidly in North America and Europe.

Babolat is also a pioneer in connected sport technology and launched a connected tennis racket in 2014 and a connected wrist-worn tennis wearable with PIQ in 2015.

Adidas AG (styled as adidas) is a German multinational corporation, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and accessories.

It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second biggest in the world.

Nike, Inc. (official,; also, non-US) is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services.

The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area.

It is one of the world's largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012).

As of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide.

In 2014 the brand alone was valued at $19 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses.

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.

The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.

The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

A racket or racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings or catgut is stretched tightly.

It is used for striking a ball or shuttlecock in games such as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton.

Collectively, these games are known as racket sports.

This predecessor to the modern game of squash, rackets, is played with wooden rackets.

While squash equipment has evolved in the intervening century, rackets equipment has changed little.