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BADMINTON
The Legends’ Vision: Legends visited India and
livened up the event with the local Legends!
The Legends’ Vision was held on the 4th in Mumbai, India, to the wild enthusiasm of approximately 5000
badminton fans! With the desire to make badminton a major global sport, Lin Dan (China), Lee Chong Wei
(Malaysia), Peter Gade (Denmark), and Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia) have been presiding over activities to spread
and develop the sport. Korean superstar Lee Yong Dae is also supporting and participating from this year.
India is said to be the birthplace of modern Badminton and the Legends of India, Pullela Gopichand, winner of
the 2001 YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships, and Prakash Padukone, formerly ranked World
No. 1, participated to liven up the event. When players such as Srikanth Kidambi, who was recently elevated
to World No. 2, Pusarla V. Sindhu, and Saina Nehwal made an appearance, the voltage in the venue reached
maximum.
The event included a talk show, exhibition matches, and badminton instruction for local junior athletes. Through
the serious mixed doubles games played together with the Legends and junior athletes, every point drew
cheers from the audience, and everyone was delighted to see amazing plays. Peter commented that, “Indian
badminton has the potential to expand even further. We want to create opportunities for the generation that
will come after Sindhu and the others.”

The next event will take place on December 3rd in Paris, France, where Peter is coaching the national team.
TIPS
Changing Tensions – I have seen hundreds of times
stringers in tournaments forgetting to change the
tension on the crosses. I have had this happen also
while talking to a player while stringing. I start doing
a couple of crosses then realize I did not change the
tension. An easy way to prevent this from happening
is to put something on the racket to signal that you
should not forget it. The easiest wa y is to put a piece
of coloured tape on the grommet for the first cross
string. You would have to remove it to put the string in.
Slipping basic Grips – Sometimes a player’s basic
grip keeps moving at the butt cap. There are several
ways to stop this. 1. Make sure the butt cap is clean
with alcohol or mineral spirits. 2. Some butt caps are
slippery then try roughing them up with sandpaper.
3. If the butt cap is moving because of the player’s
hand is moving around the end of the butt cap, place a
strong double sided tape and tack the end of the grip
to the butt cap.
FAST FACTS
A third of European junior elite tennis players have
bought a tennis racquet because it was used by a Pro
Player they admired.
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Almost two thirds of European junior elite tennis
players buy their racquets from independent speciality
tennis retailers.
ERSA PRO STRINGER // ISSUE 8-2017