Racket Sports Industry News 10/26

RB Calendar - HEAD - Shorts Odds & Ends

Author

Rich Neher
September 30, 2026

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RACKET BUSINESS CALENDAR OF EVENTS


Your One-Stop Event Resource for Racquet Sports

The top Racket Business menu includes the Events button. We encourage our readers to use this button as a helpful resource when planning for education, travel, and networking.

At the top of the page, we also list training courses and certification workshops for tennis, pickleball, padel, platform tennis, and cardio tennis.

Victor Bergonzoli: I ASKED MUSE (THE NEW AI AGENT FROM META)
I asked Muse a very simple question:
“What do you think about SportsEdTV?” I didn’t give it talking points or tell it what I wanted to hear. I also asked it to create an image representing what it thought SportsEdTV was.

HEAD RACQUET SPORTS PRODUCT NEWS

HEAD Project FLEX Pickleball Paddle

HEAD Project FLEX 2026 is HEAD’s latest experimental pickleball paddle, designed to push paddle tech boundaries through controlled frame flexibility. Moving away from traditional rigid paddle frames, it uses a unique structural design to maximize control and ball dwell time.
Read more.

HEAD iPrestige Tennis Collection

Meet the all-new 2026 iPrestige Collection: Featuring a generous 99 square inch head, an open 16x19 string pattern, and a lighter swing weight. Now, a quarter-century since its iconic Grand Slam legacy began, the legend is back. Read more.

SHORT ODDS & ENDS

===> SGI Europe

adidas extends CLIMACOOL rollout to tennis with US Open debut

Running, football, now tennis: CLIMACOOL is turning up everywhere. adidas has extended its cooling platform to the US Open, the latest stop in a rollout that has touched three sports in 2026 and marks 25 years since the technology first appeared in running footwear.

Photo: adidas press room

Kyle LaCroix: You don’t become unstoppable by following the crowd!
You get there by doing something better than anyone else can do it and by proving every day that you’re the best at what you do.

When I started SETS I didn’t want to create another racquet sports company or “agency”. I wanted to build something I wished existed when I was coming up in this industry.

Someone in your corner. Someone willing to challenge you.

Read the full story and be inspired.

===> Denver Gazette

New Broomfield club for pickleball, padel and squash

The Three Rackets will be a 34,000-square-foot facility that combines pickleball, padel and squash, making it one of few sports clubs where all the sports have courts under one roof. 

Rendering of Three Rackets, a new racket sports club coming to Broomfield.
(Courtesy of Three Rackets / Paramount)

The Three Rackets will have five indoor padel courts, five indoor pickleball courts and three indoor squash courts and will offer a mix of activities including coaching, leagues and social spaces, as well as dining. Read more.

===> New CourtReserve Integration

CourtReserve Now Integrates with Track Tennis for Automatic Court Recording

CourtReserve now integrates with Track Tennis, bringing AI-powered court video and automatic recording to your racquet sports club.

When an eligible player books a court or registers for an event, Track Tennis records the session automatically. Once the recording is ready, players receive the finished video in the CourtReserve app, along with text and email notifications.
Read more.

===> SGI Europe

Babolat renews exclusive 4PADEL equipment supply deal for four years

Babolat and 4PADEL have announced that they are extending their agreement for another four years and entering a new phase of their partnership. The announcement was made during the inauguration of the 4PADEL Sain-Priest, near Lyon. Babolat will therefore remain the official and exclusive equipment supplier of the 4PADEL network. The two French companies have been partners since 2018. Read more.

===> Flourish Marketing

Grand Opening of the Queenswood Tennis Centre

Hundreds of visitors gathered on Saturday 19 September for the grand opening of the Queenswood Tennis Centre – the largest red-court facility in the UK.

Queenswood Tennis Centre is at Brookmans Park in Hatfield (UK), about 20 miles north of London.

About the New Courts

Eight Red Plus clay courts were built with a £600,000 LTA investment, alongside substantial Queenswood funding. Red Plus contains real Italian clay and is playable all year round, replicating tour-level clay conditions. The new installation forms part of a wider facility of 27 all-weather courts. Read more.