Babolat Serves Up T-shirt Design Contest on SPORTS ILLUSTRATED GROUP’s SIKIDS.com

Babolat, leading manufacturer of tennis racquets, will sponsor a tennis T-shirt design contest on SPORTS ILLUSTRATED GROUP’s SIKIDS.com.
By: Hayley Anderson
 
May 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Boulder, Colorado – Babolat, leading manufacturer of tennis racquets, will sponsor a tennis T-shirt design contest on SPORTS ILLUSTRATED GROUP’s SIKIDS.com. Babolat encourages children to get in the spirit with an art contest to kick off the 2010 French Open.

The Babolat tennis T-shirt contest invites readers of SI KIDS to draw their favorite Team Babolat player—Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando Gonzalez, Caroline Wozniacki or Kim Clijsters—or any tennis inspired art for a chance to win weekly prizes including autographed Babolat tennis racquets and gear. Fans may submit their original works on SIKIDS.com. Visitors to the site will be able to vote on a design. The artist of the design that receives the most votes at the end of each week will win T-shirts, hats, backpacks and more from Babolat.

“Our Team Babolat professional players are often role models for young tennis players, so with the French Open right around corner, we thought this would be a fun way to engage kids in the game of tennis,” says Susan DiBiase, marketing director of Babolat USA.

Winners will be announced on SIKIDS.com every week through the French Open, concluding June 6, 2010. To enter, draw your favorite Babolat player on the template provided at SIKIDS.com, then upload the drawing on the T-shirt contest page (http://www.sikids.com/contests/tennis-t-shrt-contest).

ABOUT THE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED GROUP’S SI KIDS FRANCHISE
The SI KIDS franchise is anchored by the flagship monthly and includes the website (www.SIKIDS.com), books, events, licensed products and the annual “SportsKid of the Year” platform. For 21 years SI KIDS has helped young fans (8 and up) learn about positive values, good sportsmanship and healthy lifestyle through sports. The franchise delivers SI’s in-depth reporting, action photography, first-person athlete accounts and features to a monthly audience of 4.9mm. Today, more than 60% of current Sports Illustrated readers have subscribed to SI KIDS.

ABOUT BABOLAT
Founded in Lyon, France, in 1875, Babolat is the first company to have specialized in racquet sports and the world leader in the production of natural gut strings. Easily recognized by its trademark “double-line” (two stripes on the racquet frame and black on the stringing bed), Babolat is still family-owned. Today, with U.S. operations in Boulder, Colorado, the company also manufactures synthetic strings, shoes, accessories and a best-selling line of racquets. Babolat equips 20% of the top 100 players in the ATP and WTA including Rafael Nadal (SPAIN, #3 ATP), Andy Roddick (USA, #7 ATP), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRANCE, #10 ATP), Dinara Safina (RUSSIA, #3 WTA), Caroline Wozniacki (DENMARK, #2 WTA) and Kim Clijsters (BELGIUM, #10 WTA). To find out where Babolat products are sold, log on to www.babolat.com or call  (877) 316-9435. Follow us on Facebook.com/babolat or Twitter.com/babolat.

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