Maria Sharapova and Gilles Simon produced a trophy double on Sunday for HEAD racquet rebels, with the WTA No. 2 winning the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart while Simon lifted the ATP honours at the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy in Bucharest.
Read more…Novak Djokovic reached the final at the ATP Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo. Although he missed the chance to extend his seven-match win streak in finals over Rafael Nadal as he was beaten 6-1, 6-3, Djokovic had a great start into the clay court season.
Read more…Novak Djokovic won a tight battle between fellow HEAD racquet rebels, bolstering his world No. 1 status with a third career trophy at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Djokovic lifted the 30th title of his career with a 6-1, 7-6 (4) defeat over Andy Murray in the final. This victory completed a Miami hat-trick for the 24-year-old after winning in 2007 and 2011. On the women's side, Maria Sharapova claimed a spot in the final.
Read more…HEAD racquet rebels Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova reached the final weekend at the ATP-WTA event in Indian Wells, California and head across country to the Masters event in Miami. Defending champion Djokovic took American John Isner to the limit before coming up short in his semi-final. Sharapova entered the final against Victoria Azarenka.
Read more…Andy Murray is playing the leading role in the new global, digital communication campaign released by HEAD Tennis, supporting the introduction of the new YouTek™ IG Tour Racquet Series.
Read more…Andy Murray has solidified his grip on the world No. 4 ranking as he makes a quick turnaround after reaching his first final at the ATP 500 Dubai Championships. Kevin Anderson claimed the title in Delray beach winning his 3rd career title.
Read more…The 2012 edition of the Tennis Europe Winter Cups by HEAD has come to a close with Czech Republic, France, Great Britain and Russia all winning titles for a second consecutive year. HEAD has been the presenting sponsor of the competition since 2007. A number of HEAD stars feature in the event’s roll of honour, with Andy Murray, Richard Gasquet and Svetlana Kuznetsova amongst the former champions, while others such as Novak Djokovic and Tomas Berdych have also taken part.
Read more…To say players from HEAD Penn simply “doubled” up on the competition at the 2012 USA Racquetball National Doubles Championships would be an extreme understatement. Just a week after battling it out in the final of the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) event in Salt Lake City, Ben Croft and Rocky Carson teamed up to win their first United States National Doubles Championship as a duo. For Croft, the win in the desert capped a whirlwind span of eight days that brought him his first IRT Tier One tournament victory and his first National Doubles Championship.
Read more…HEAD racquet rebel Tomas Berdych from Czech Republic continued his great start into the 2012 season swinging his YouTek IG Instinct MP on the way to victories in singles and doubles which put his nation into the Davis Cup quarter-finals 4-1 over Italy.
Read more…HEAD Tennis starts into 2012 with a fresh focus on social media to bring together its highly talented group of around 4,000 sponsored youth players between the age of 8 and 21 around the world, and does so with a new name - Team HEAD!
Read more…The winners of the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards have been unveiled at a globally televised Awards Ceremony in London and Novak Djokovic was crowned Laureus World Sportsman of the Year after his remarkable 2011 season.
Read more…HEAD racquet rebels Tomas Berdych and Mikhail Youzhny earned ATP title success indoors with trophies at Montpellier and Zagreb. World No. 7 Berdych from the Czech Republic defeated Gael Monfils of France 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in their final, while Youzhny swung his YouTek IG Extreme Pro for the win over Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-2, 6-3. Carlos Berlocq reached the final of Vina del Mar.
Read more…HEAD is proud to present the new Tennis shoe collection for the 2012 season, including brand new models for men, women and juniors. In an effort to optimize tennis players’ performance on the court, HEAD is launching its latest FOOTWEAR innovation, the HEAD TRINERGY technology. HEAD TRINERGY has been developed to offer a synergy of HEAD’s most proven footwear technologies, uniting three innovations to give players a triple benefit.
Read more…HEAD racquet rebel Novak Djokovic claimed his hat-trick of titles at the Australian Open as he beat Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5 to win his fifth career Grand Slam trophy. The Serb, playing with his YouTek IG Speed MP, won the longest final in Grand Slam history lasting five hours, 53 minutes. The 24 year-old HEAD Ace has now beaten Nadal in seven consecutive finals and continues to stand on top of the world rankings in men’s tennis. Djokovic's victory was his fourth in the last five Grand Slams.
Read more…For 25 years, one racquet has constantly redefined maximum control and feel on the court and became a legend in itself: the HEAD Prestige. To celebrate a quarter of a century of Prestige racquet excellence, HEAD is launching the revitalised YouTek™ IG Prestige series for 2012 and adding the innovative S-model to the range.
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