Prince Sports

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company_name = Prince Sports Inc.
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company_slogan = Rule the court
company_type = Public
foundation = 1970
location = flagicon|USA Bordentown, NJ, USA
key_people = Bob McClure, founder
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industry = Sporting goods
products = Racquets, Apparel, Accessories, Ball Machines, Tennis Equipment
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homepage = [http://www.princetennis.com www.princetennis.com]
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Prince Sports, Inc. is an American manufacturer of equipment for racquet sports.

Based in Bordentown, New Jersey, Prince Sports manufactures tennis, 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 racquets.

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]