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Category: Racquets & Strings

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Category: Racquets & Strings - Company: HEAD/Penn Racquet Sports
HEAD/Penn Announces Partnership with Beach Tennis USA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lisa Westerfield
Centennial Tower
Atlanta,
404-262-3000
lisa.westerfield@edelman.com

04/06/06 - Phoenix, AZ– HEAD/ Penn Racquet sports announces that they are the official racquet and ball of Beach Tennis USA. The relatively new sport of beach tennis will kick off its much-anticipated 2006 National Tour in April with two weekend events in Southern California. The 11-city tour will culminate with the U.S. Beach Tennis Open Championship in Long Beach, New York in August.

“We are very excited to be promoting beach tennis. This partnership with Beach Tennis USA is a great fit for us and we are excited to have established this new connection to the sport of tennis” said Amy Wishingrad, National Promotions Manager for HEAD/Penn Racquet Sports.
Beach tennis is played on a regulation beach volleyball court. Using regulation tennis racquets, two players on each team try to hit a tennis ball back and forth, directly over the net, without letting it hit the sand. Only one hit per team is allowed on each volley and scoring is the same as in tennis: 15 - 30 - 40, with no-ad at deuce. If a player's serve hits the net and goes over, it counts-just as in beach volleyball.

HEAD/Penn Racquet Sports is a division of HEAD NV which owns such premier sporting goods brands as HEAD (tennis, racquetball, and squash racquets; alpine skis and boots; snowboards, bindings and boots; athletic and outdoor footwear; accessories and apparel), Penn (tennis balls and racquetball balls), Tyrolia (ski bindings), Mares and Dacor (both scuba diving equipment).

HEAD, revolutionized tennis with the introduction of Flexpoint technology while they are the manufacturer of the world’s best-selling tennis technology – Liquidmetal, is the #1 selling tennis racquet brand in Europe and #2 worldwide. Penn is the only tennis ball manufactured in the USA and holds the status of America’s #1 selling tennis ball and the World’s #1 selling racquetball. Penn is the official ball of the ATP Masters Series and other major international tournaments.

For more information, please visit head.com.

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Media contacts:

Megan Costello
Phoenix, AZ
602-447-2324