Wilson sponsors Top China Professional Badminton Club

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Wilson proudly announces a partnership to become the Official Equipment Sponsor of Tsingtao Beer Professional Badminton Club. It is one of the top professional badminton teams in China as well as the overall provincial team of Shandong Province in which Tsingtao Beer Company is located.

The Tsingtao Beer Team is one of eight teams to qualify for the new China Premier Professional Badminton League which will debut starting May 22, 2010 and is expected to generate immense commercial interest in this popular Asian sport.

The Tsingtao Beer Team also has an outstanding record of success including 3 World Champion players at the 2008 World Badminton Junior Championships, 2 winners at the 2007 Championships, and 5 runner ups at the 2006 tournament. For the new China Premier Professional League, the Tsingtao Beer Team qualified 5 out of 14 teams and is one of the favorites to win. They have signed top Chinese Olympic players Fu Haifeng and Du Jing as well as National Team players Wang Xin and Zhou Wenlong.

Through the partnership, Wilson will outfit the Tsingtao Beer Team and Shandong Provincial Team head to toe with its innovative BLX rackets as well as high performance bags, accessories, footwear and uniforms.

Basalt is a natural volcanic rock that can be used in manufacturing and made into ultrafine gold fibers. Basalt fibers are woven longitudinally with Wilson exclusive [K]arophite Black to create the most advanced composite in the industry. Like noise-cancelling headphones are filtering out unwanted external noise, Basalt added to the matrix filters the unwanted extreme frequencies in the racket. BLX, the new Wilson technology delivers a cleaner feedback and better sensation.  (BL) stands for basalt which is combined with (X) other variables and all are connected together for the PERFECT FEEL.

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