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RACQUETTECH EUROPE

European Racquet Stringers Association

ERSA Australia Anthony Aley - Noel Dodds

ERSA Benelux Timo van Driel , Rob Maessen

ERSA Czech Republic & Slovakia Vaclav Smat

ERSA Germany , Austria , Switzerland Mike Emenako , Mark Maslowski

ERSA Greece Manager George Pahiakos

ERSA Italy Manager - Marco Rossani ERSA Ireland - Roger Henry ERSA Korea - Taikki Lee

ERSA Latin America Ricardo Dipold

ERSA Serbia - Dr . Alexander Ducic

ERSA Spain - France Richard Parnell

ERSA Taiwan - Bernie Chen

ERSA UK Paul Skipp , Huw Phillips , Jamie Pethick

ERSA UKAINE - Sergey Konovolenko

STRING SUPPLIER MEMBERS Apollo Leisure MSV Kirschbaum Signum Pro

ASSOCIATION MEMBERS PTR Europe TIA UK TENNIS EUROPE

TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS Rod Cross - Australia - Physics Gabe Jarmillo - Pro Tennis

European Racquet Stringers Association Lenaustr . 38 40470 Düsseldorf DE Germany Phone / Fax + 49 ( 0 ) 211-68814151 www . ersa-stringers . com

Welcome to the fi rst issue of 2017 . The ERSA Symposium is getting close . We only have a couple of places left and some members are still debating whether to come or not . I have as a Coach , Stringer , Shop Owner always tried to attend as many conferences as possible . I always found it was great meeting new people in the industry and and always learned many new things from the presentations . Half of the attendees this year have attended three or four Symposiums already . Most are shop owners and pro tour stringers . You can always fi nd reasons not to attend but even the top stringers in the world have told us they learn new things every year and keep coming back . There are many other workshops , meeting and conferences that I would recommend . Anything that has to do with your interests or business . This issue contains an article on volleys by Gabe Jaramillo for our members who play and coach tennis . Gabe was head coach at Nick Bolletieri Acadamy for years and now runs the Club Med Academy at Sandpiper Bay .

Also featured in this issue are the new HEAD Graphene Touch Instinct rackets along with the new HEAD Adaptive rackets . We had a large nember of members stringing in Melbourne at the 2017 Australian Open . An article and photos are included in this issue . We set a record of 5460 restrings in one tournement and the second record in a row in Melbourne .

ERSA is launching ERSA China this month . With this we will be expanding our badminton education and including a badminton and squash section in each issue of the magazine starting next month .

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Dusseldorf March 31 ! best regards

Mark Maslowski