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June 2010 Archive

TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

Wed 23 June 2010

Coming Soon: Nano Carbon Tube Technology

It is well known that in many international hockey matches, there's a small margin of difference between winning and losing.

For 2010 the introduction of Carbon Nano Tube Technology is the latest development in improving Grays composite hockey sticks. Although small in size, these minute sized Carbon Nano Tubes play an important part in taking our hockey stick construction technology to a new level and give top players that extra percent that can swing hte game in your favour. They recognise it is the small things that make all the difference.

Grays inspiration for our nano range has come from our desire to:

  • Take the performance of composite sticks to a new level by improving the stick's consistency and performance
  • Improve the sticks reliability by increasing both the flexural strength as well as giving greater torsional stability
  • Increase the sticks durability and wear performance on synthetic pitches 

By introducing these new hi-tech Carbon Nano Technologies, Grays are now able to introduce and offer players the latest cutting edge technology.

Player Benefits:

  • Greater consistency in performance when hitting
  • Improved stability against torsional forces when controlling the ball and when hitting
  • Improved feel and handling response when controlling the ball

Nano Carbon Tubes are molecular scale graphitic tubes that are amongst the strongest of known fibres. We have now included "Carbon Nano Tubes" as part of our resin mixture formulae. This process has involved carefully adding these nano molecule particles into the resin mix as part of the all important lay up process. The Grays formulae is so important in creating the all important stick performance qualities of increased strength and feel.

When integrated within the formulae mix of the resin, these minute sized Carbon Nano Tubes allow greater impregnation of the resin into the surface of the reinforcing fibres themselves, resulting in greater tensile strength in the bond of the resin itself on the surface of the reinforcing fibres.

It is the combination and integration of the use of these Carbon Nano Tubes within the resin mix combined with our Grays special composite fibre matrix constructions on these Nano models that increases the unidirectional qualities of the sticks performance.

2010 YONEX Australian Open Information Update

Wed 23 June 2010

Date: 13-18 July 2010

Venue: Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Albert Park, Victoria

Level: Grand Prix US$50,000

Total number of Countries participating: 17 (Australia, England, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, Singapore, USA, Vietnam and Wales).

The men's singles is the strongest event with 59 entries. Tien Minh Nguyen from Vietnam heads the field, currently ranked at No.7 in the world. Tien Minh will be competing in the Singapore and Indonesia Super Series before heading to Melbourne for the Australian Open GP. In 2009 he was the winner of the Thailand GP Gold and Chinese Taipei GP Gold events.

Also in the men's singles will be the newly crowned winner of the Indian GP Gold played last week in Chennai, India. The winner, Yunus Alamsyah, from Indonesia, had to beat a number of top players to win his first GP event. Alamsyah will certainly be aiming to win the Australian Open title having tasted defeat by his fellow countryman Dionysius Rumbaka at last year's Australian Open.

Other notable entries in the men's singles includes Malaysian Lee Tsuen Seng, former winner of the New Zealand Open and other Grand Prix events, Yogendran Krishnan who won the Altona Future Series back in April, Malaysian top junior Zulfadi Zulkiffli, Raj Popat from Wales, Alistair Casey from Scotland, Harry Wright from England and a host of top international players. Heading the Australian contingent are Commonwealth Games aspirants Nick Kidd (WA) and Jeff Tho (Vic).

In the women's singles the stars are Megumi Taruno (Japan), Hye Youn Hwang (Korea), Sashina Waran (France), Anita Kaur (Malaysia), Karyn Velez (USA), Le Ngoc (Vietnam), Karen Foo (Mauritius) and Chia Chi Huang (Australia). In total there are over 40 entrants in the women's singles resulting in qualifying rounds being required.

In the men's doubles there are 27 pairs entered including the 2009 Australian Open defending champions and highest ranked pair Gan Tek Chai and Tan Bin Shen from Malaysia ranked No.15 in the world. They will have to reproduce their magnificent effort of last year against some of the Korea and Japanese top pairs and our own Glenn Warfe (Vic) and Ross Smith (Vic) who are making an impact on the world scene.

The women's doubles has 23 entrants including Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi ranked No.20 in the world, together with players from Korea's winning Uber Cup team Min Seo Kim and Kyung Won Lee (one half of world No.10) competing in the field. New Zealand's Danielle Barry and Donna Haliday are the highest Oceania ranked pairs at No.39 in the world. With Australia's Chia Chi Huang now concentrating on her singles, He Tian Tang will be partnering Renuga Veeran in Australian defense of the WD title won last year and a strong showing is expected.

The mixed doubles has 39 pairs competing. Qualifying rounds again will be required to get to the main draw. New Zealand's Henry Tam and Donna Haliday ranked at No.27 in the world head the field. Strong competition is expected from Japan's Shintaro Ikeda and Reiko Shiota, Korea's Tae Sang Park and Hyun Jung Ko and our own brother and sister combination of Raj and Renuga Veeran and our other pair of Glenn Warfe and Kate Wilson-Smith.

The draws will be made on Tuesday 29 June 2010 and posted on the YONEX Australian Open tournament website of www.australianbadmintonopen.com.au.

Tickets can be purchased through Badminton Victoria. There is limited seating available for the public so please purchase your tickets early as a sell out crowd is expected.

Please direct all enquiries to Badminton Victoria on 03 9686 4777 or Badminton Australia on 03 9397 4722.

Lleyton's 100th Win on Grass-Court

Thu 24 June 2010

15th seeded Lleyton Hewitt (RDiS100) advanced to the third round and collected 100th career grass-court victory.

In the second set, Lleyton won 18 consecutive points on serve. After the match, he commented that he served extremely well and everything was going great at the moment.

Although Lleyton's opponent, Evgeny Korolev retired the match during the third set, Lleyton made only 7 unforced errors (Evgeny made 33).

Winning the Gerry Weber Open at Halle gave Lleyton a lot of confidence that he could play well on the grass-court.

Lleyton will play against 21st seeded French Gael Monfils at the third round.