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The Wilson Sporting Goods company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and currently is a foreign Subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports that also owns Atomic , Suunto , Precor , and Salomon . ''Wilson'' makes equipment for many sports, among them Badminton , Baseball , Basketball , Softball , Football , Golf , Racquetball , Soccer , Squash , Tennis , and Volleyball . TENNIS Wilson tennis Racquet s are used among many professional tennis players. Pete Sampras used them to win 14 Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments ; some of the best players currently using Wilson racquets are Roger Federer , Novak Đoković , Jonas Björkman , Mardy Fish , Nicolas Kiefer , Gaston Gaudio , Guillermo Cañas , Justine Henin , Serena Williams , Venus Williams , Ana Ivanović and Flavio Saretta . Former Wilson brand racquet-using players include Jack Kramer (has an eponymous model), Jimmy Connors , Chris Evert , Stefan Edberg , Lindsay Davenport , and Steffi Graf . The original kevlar Pro Staff model (Sampras's racquet) was heavy (350+gm) and small-headed (85 sq. in.); Roger Federer also used the same racquet model. Currently, he uses the KSix-One Tour model that is heavy (354 gm) and large-headed (90 sq. in.). Also, many professional players use custom-made racquets that perform differently than do the mass-produced versions. Moreover, some, like Lleyton Hewitt , paint old racquets to appear like new models. In 1979, Wilson tennis balls were first used in the US Open,1 and still are used to this day. In 2006, the Australian Open began using Wilson Tennis Balls2. The Australian Open reported using more than 450,000 Wilson Tennis Balls during the tournament. Aside from tennis racquets, the Wilson sporting goods company also makes tennis shoes, strings, clothes, and racquet bags. FOOTBALLS .]] The Wilson football factory in Ada, Ohio is the only dedicated football factory in the world and the only place where footballs are manufactured in the United States . Wilson has been the exclusive provider of footballs for the National Football League since 1941. The official NFL footballs are sold exclusively to the NFL franchises and are labeled with the model number F1010. The official NFL football sold to the general public, which is labeled with the model number F1000, is essentially the same ball which has passed less stringent quality control checks. The F1000 model is commonly used for the collection of football player Autographs . IN POPULAR CULTURE Wilson the Volleyball See Also: Wilson the Volleyball '']] One of its products, a Volleyball , "co-starred" alongside Tom Hanks in the movie '' Cast Away ''. After the success of the film, Wilson Sporting Goods actually created and marketed volleyballs with Wilson's face on it for a short time. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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