It started with natural gut. Back in 1875, when tennis was in its infancy, Babolat was a specialist in turning the raw material into such things as surgical thread and musical instruments. The ...

Wimbledon may be one of the oldest names associated with tennis, but it is not the longest established. Babolat, the French racquet manufacturer, began making strings for players in 1875, two years ...

But he had been playing with the same old-school polyester Babolat Duralast 15L strings for nearly a dozen years. Verborg first approached Rafa with the company's red Revenge string, but because Nadal ...