Hinding Tennis, Ace Surfaces Complete NYC Nike Grind Projects

Tom Hinding of Hinding Tennis Courts of West Haven, Conn., recently teamed up with Franz Fasold of Ace Surfaces of North America and, combined with a generous donation from Nike, installed the Rebound Ace with Nike Grind System on six new basketball courts in New York City. The $400,000 project was completed in 25 days on courts in Manhattan, Harlem and the Bronx. For information on Rebound Ace with Nike Grind, contact Hinding Tennis at 203-410-6090 or Ace Surfaces at 321-689-4070.

Lee to Host Har-Tru Seminar in NYC

Lee

Tennis Court Products, the manufacturer of Har-Tru, will host a Har-Tru Maintenance Certification Seminar Aug. 12- 13 at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy at Sportime at Randall's Island in New York City. The seminar is designed for anyone managing, maintaining or considering installing clay tennis courts, including club managers, teaching pros, court builders and maintenance professionals. The seminar will bring together leading experts on indoor and outdoor clay courts to discuss construction and maintenance techniques. In addition, the seminar will include information on the causes of indoor and bubbled court surface compaction and what techniques are being used to alleviate it. There will be presentations, panel discussions and on-court demonstrations. For more information, contact Ed Montecalvo at 1-877- 4HARTRU or emontecalvo@ leetennis.com. www.racquetsportsindustry.com

USPTA World Conference Set for California

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Embree Leaves Prince Americas

John

Embree resigned as president of Prince Americas in June. With his departure, Prince says it will consolidate North American sales and promotion under Gordon Boggis, who will retain his title as president and COO of Prince Sports Inc. The company says the move will "streamline and flatten the organization" and create an integrated commercial function in the U.S. that will facilitate and improve coordination and communication between sales, product development, marketing and promotion. As part of this change, Ken Daiss, executive v.p. and chief financial officer, will add information technology, customer service and logistics to his responsibilities. In addition, Latin America will be integrated under of Mike Ricketts, president of Prince International.

USPTA's

2010 World Conference on Tennis will be Sept. 27-Oct. 2 at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, Calif. The conference attracts nearly 1,500 tennis professionals, industry leaders, manufacturers and others, and features more than 40 seminars and courses. Also scheduled are nighttime parties, the country's largest tennis-only buying show, a silent auction, the USPTA International Tennis Championships and more. The speakers at this year's conference include Dr. Martin Baroch, Nick Bollettieri, Todd Ellenbecker, Allen Fox, Ph.D., Tom Gorman, Ron Holmberg, Mark Kovacs, Ph.D., Page Love, Rick Macci and John Yandell. For a complete lineup of speakers, seminars and activities, and for registration information, visit www.usptaworldconference.com or call 800-877-8248.

Genesis Releases 4 New Strings

Genesis

has recently launched four new strings. The Hexonic is a hexagonal shaped copolyester that comes in a red color and is available in three diameters: 1.27mm, 1.18mm, and 1.09mm. Heptonic is a heptagon shaped co-polyester string available in white and in two diameters: 1.24mm, 1.14mm. Genesis Xplosion is a premium multifilament available in natural color and in two diameters: 1.30mm and 1.25mm. And Genesis offers a basic nylon string, which comes in various gauges and colors. For more information, visit www.genesis-tennis.com or email info@genesis-tennis.com.

ALM Sports Now Exclusive USA Distributor For Polyfibre

Polyfibre

is now distributed by ALM Sports Group, who also is the USA distributor for Genesis, Poly Star, Pro Supex, and co-distributor for Topspin. Since 1993, the company, based in Germany, has developed and sold over 30 different types of string in more than 40 countries. Polyfibre produces performance tennis strings along with a full line of racquet sports products. Polyfibre strings have been used by former ATP top 10 player Magnus Larsson and is currently used by former world No. 6 Mario Ancic. For more info on Polyfibre, visit www.almsportsgroup.com or email info@almsportsgroup.com. August 2010 RACQUET SPORTS INDUSTRY 9

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