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Article: Now Serving: Golfsmith Tennis; National Golf Retailer Plans to Add Tennis Centers in up to 60 Percent of Its Stores by Summer 2005.
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- Business Wire
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- April 21, 2005
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Multi-channel retailer Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc., has plans to ace a new market.
The company today announced its strategy to add tennis centers in up to 60 percent of its stores in major tennis markets by summer 2005. Golfsmith recently began operating tennis centers in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Orlando and the San Francisco Bay Area under the Golfsmith Golf & Tennis brand. Its 2005 plans call for a continued roll out to its stores in Chicago and future locations in Florida. Most of these states fall into the United States Tennis Association's (USTA) top 10 regions for number of tennis players.
"Tennis is a ...