Babolat

IndustrySports equipment

Founded1875; 151 years ago (1875)

FounderPierre Babolat

HeadquartersLyon, France

Babolat

Industry	Sports equipment
Founded	1875; 151 years ago (1875)
Founder	Pierre Babolat
Headquarters	Lyon, France
Key people	Éric Babolat (CEO)
Products	Racquets, strings, accessories and shoes
Revenue	€141.2 million (2014)
Number of employees	369
Website	babolat.com

Babolat (/ˈbɑːboʊlɑː/) is a French tennis, badminton, pickleball, and padel equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by professional and recreational players worldwide. The company has made strings since 1875, when Pierre Babolat created the first strings made of natural gut. Babolat continued to focus on strings until 1994, when it became a "total tennis" company, also producing racquet frames and selling them in Europe. It then expanded sales to Japan, and later to the United States in 2000. Sales of Babolat racquets increased rapidly in North America and Europe. Babolat is also a pioneer in connected sport technology and launched a connected tennis racket in 2014^[1] and a connected wrist-worn tennis wearable with PIQ in 2015.^[2] The Babolat Pop is one of the leaders in tennis sensors worldwide.