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K • Swiss appoints Miringoff global DoT
K • Swiss announces Mike Miringoff as the new Global Director of Tennis of the K • Swiss brand . In this role , Miringoff is responsible for all aspects of the performance tennis business in North America , including sales , marketing and product . In addition , this role sets the direction that will be followed by the EMEA ( Europe , the Middle East and Africa ) and APAC ( Asia and Pacific ) regions . He will report directly to Barney Waters , Brand President of K-Swiss
Successful 2016 for Head tennis
HEAD tennis players are looking back on quite a successful and dominating year with 8 out of 9 ATP Masters event titles , 3 out of 4 Grand Slam titles and two players finishing the season on the top of the Emirates ATP Ranking . When looking back on 2016 , two names keep popping up : Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic . Andy finished the year not only as the season-ending World ’ s No . 1 player , but was able to cap his season with the 2016 Barclays ATP World Tour Final title , defended his gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games , won the 2016 Wimbledon tournament and captured 3 ATP Masters Event titles . Novak , on the other hand , defended his Australian Open title , successfully won his first ever French Open tournament and won 4 ATP Masters Event titles , to finish the year as the World ’ s No . 2 tennis player . Marin Cilic captured the Cincinnati Masters title and the 8th out of 9th ATP Masters event for HEAD . Finally all three top HEAD players made it to the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and once more showed the dominance of the HEAD team by qualifying with 3 out of 8 singles players . With Next Gen players Sascha Zverev and Taylor Fritz , named “ ATP Star of Tomorrow ,” ready to join the big leagues , 2017 already looks to be another interesting and successful season for HEAD Tennis and its players .
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