Luxilon on Tour

Luxilon-sponsored Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia won the women’s championship beating Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-4 6-3. Svetlana uses Luxilon Supersense as the main string (57 lb) and Luxilon Alu Power (55 lb) in the cross strings. “I just love Luxilon,” she said enthusiastically as she visited the stringing room after her win. “I wish I could win enough prize money to buy the company then I would make strings just for me and win everything!”

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In the men’s final, world #1 Roger Federer - who plays with a combination of Luxiilon Alu Power Rough and Wilson Natural Gut won the men’s championship. He defeated Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia in three tight sets 7-6(5) 7-6(4) 7-6(6).

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Luxilon was also the official stringing company of the event and its team of world-class stringers from 5 different coutries successfully completed the stringing of over 1,600 racquets at this prestigious event which featured most of the World’s top players and attendance of over 250,000 fans. This is the third year in which Luxilon has managed player racquet services for the event.

“The players and the event management love having Luxilon as the official stringing team.” said Tom Annear, Senior Vice President of the tournament. “The NASDAQ-100 Open has once again been voted by players as the ATP Masters Series Tournament of the Year and having Luxilon as our stringing partner certainly helps us earn and maintain that coveted status. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Luxilon for many years to come.”

Luxilon is proud to be closely associated with this prestigious tournament and particular proud that both men’s and women’s champions chose Luxilon to help them to victory.

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The Luxilon Cup again provided some exciting junior tennis during the 2006 NASDAQ-100 Open event in Key Biscayne, Florida. Luxilon has supported junior tennis for a number of years and looks forward to this opportunity to further the careers of some talented young players.

The event featured an international field of 24 of the best junior boys and girls in the World from 8 countries.

Previous winners include Maria Sharapova, Tatiana Golovin, Tomas Berdych, Gisela Dulko,
Marcus Fugate and Nicole Vaidisova and competition is fierce to join the ranks of these players who have all gone on to become stars of the tennis world.

Sanja Ancic of Croatia (sister of ATP pro Mario Ancic) won the girls’ championship beating a disappointed Lauren Albanese of the USA in a tough three set match 7-5 4-6 6-3.

Pavel Chekhov of Russia won the boys’ championship beating Nicolas Santos of Brasil 4-6 6-3 6-3
in a repeat of the girls match - a tough 3-set battle.

The winner of the boys’ and girls’ events not only became Luxilon Cup champions - they also earned wildcards into the NASDAQ-100 Open in 2007!

 

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