who's Konta?...nevermind
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Sponsership changes in 2019?
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rafa_prestige89
Professional
No, probably it would be IG Radical MP with Graphene Touch Radical MP cosmetics, since no CAP grommets.
Yoneyama
Hall of Fame
It’s a paint jobbed pure drive. I watched her match live today from up close and the buttcap is babolat and the throat is the iconic pure drive shape.
Moonballballer
Semi-Pro
Gulbis playing without stencil
And not in adidas clothes anymore.
RS92
Hall of Fame
Edmund too. Maybe Bautista Agut as well since he was using the same PJ as Kohlschreiber?
NuBas
Legend
I think the white might look better on them.
rafa_prestige89
Professional
No sponsor.
Sambuccashake
Hall of Fame
Basher in Lotto.
Seems to be a step down from Hydrogen which is odd since he must be considered to be on the way up.
Seems to be a step down from Hydrogen which is odd since he must be considered to be on the way up.
Moonballballer
Semi-Pro
I heard hydrogen doesn’t have a big budget so they probably had to drop everyone for Feli and Berdych.
Subway Tennis
Legend
Lotto is a big step up imo.
Lotto is a much bigger company with a bigger scope for endorsement. He is most likely getting paid more, getting more apparel, and also having his shoes covered. I'm not a huge fan of all of the Lotto range but the red gradient kit doing the rounds at the moment looks great.
Sambuccashake
Hall of Fame
Yeah I have never liked the Hydrogen look. Seems misplaced on a tennis court.
Looks good!
Chokergoat
Rookie
No idea if this was posted yet but Cecchinato was with Lotto last year and now sporting Joma.
Shaurya
New User
Yup, he posted this on instagram, giving all the information about his sponsorships. It's in Italian so you'll have to use google translate. Heck, now he has his own brand now called MC13 !
Stevo Karlovic
Rookie
Really? What he uses?
Lemoned
Rookie
Random white shirt, black shorts with adidas shoes.
http://www.maharashtraopen.com/img/gallery/998d1a3e621fb54b097fe864f57f0dba.png
https://pune365.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Emests-Gulbis.jpg
Anett Kontaveit from adidas to Lacoste.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova also has been wearing Lacoste. I'm not sure if it's official though.
She changed from Adidas for Bidi Badu? not so long ago.
So Gulbis is looking for a new sponsor I think. He was so long with Adidas.
Chokergoat
Rookie
Sofibella not Bidi Badu, she helped design her stuff, but they don’t have big enough budget to keep her for multiple years.
Lacoste is not official yet, but she’s wearing the same dress as Bernarda Pera, who just switched to them as well from KSwiss. I guess we’ll see at AO, but Cibulkova is similar white version of that dress, but Kontaveit is wearing something completely different to other three.
Shaolin
G.O.A.T.
Gulbis sponsorship process:
"Dad can I have 10 million for some clothes this season?"
*puts check in pocket*
"Thanks"
Lemoned
Rookie
I believe it's from this year's AO / early spring collection.
https://s.err.ee/photo/crop/2019/01/03/580716h8f67t46.jpg
Male players are wearing shirts with a similar theme.
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.tow...399-aaeb-031a4a243b60/5c2dc5aa6f447.image.jpg
http://www.tennisactu.net/photo/news/images/PAIRE Benoit/Dv1QdA4VYAc5I7K.jpg
Ernests Gulbis was the person who skipped Australian Open Qualies last year and in 2013 because he thought it was too expensive to travel to Australia for that. I think he's trying to live from his own money now.
Shaolin
G.O.A.T.
Ernests Gulbis was the person who skipped Australian Open Qualies last year and in 2013 because he thought it was too expensive to travel to Australia for that. I think he's trying to live from his own money now.
Haha...yeah right...the guy probably has bars of gold that he uses as door stops at home.
Yeah, not a big budget. Cibulkova is still with Lacoste?
Ernests Gulbis was the person who skipped Australian Open Qualies last year and in 2013 because he thought it was too expensive to travel to Australia for that. I think he's trying to live from his own money now.
May be it was just a reason not to flight to Australia and keep on resting?
I think he was sponsored by his local Adidas dealer.
Tennis_Hands
Banned
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appdach96
Rookie
appdach96
Rookie
Here on 12/27 is where he was in head to toe Dunlop and now he’s in the Fila.
Bobby Jr
G.O.A.T.
It's the UK brand for sure given she's wearing their dress. The UK owners of Ellesse seem to be interested only in UK players (who are also probably cheap to free).
Bobby Jr
G.O.A.T.
No, it was Italian - founded by Leonardo Servadio (his initials sounded-out form the Ellesse name). In the late 80s it was acquired outright by UK company Pentland who own lots of brands - Canterbury, Speedo, Boxfresh etc (I think they now even own some of Lacoste too). For most of the last 20 years they've focused on 80s style tracksuits etc for the casual market - much of it complete rubbish. Later, a Japanese company sub-licensed the brand for their local market for tennis/badminton where old-school European brands are still popular (fyi, Le Coq Sportif and a other brands also do Japan-only ranges) and went down a really nice design path with their clothing.
When the UK company decided to get back into tennis in about 2014 they didn't have any tennis clothing for Lopez, Haas and Puig so they wore the Japanese gear which came as part of package deal for them to play the Toyko Open each year. The UK gear is slowly improving but they're still often schizophrenic jumbles of design ideas.
NuBas
Legend
LMAO I have always thought the name was weird and now to hear the story behind it is even funnier EL ES.
brinkeguthrie
Hall of Fame
and the logo is comprised of the tip of a ski on either side of a tennis ball.
NuBas
Legend
Huh?
