ERSA Review - ZyMax "highest marks"

The European Racket stringers association have just published thier impartial review of ZyMax.
25 high level players in several countries performed the tests, the score and quotes speak for themselves:

"Ashaway has introduced a new badminton string which has given us the highest marks of any badminton string we have tested"


"I rate it somewhat better than my current string" Tournament player using BG65


"ZyMax should become one of the top strings in the market in a short time"


"More than 50% of the players said they would consider changing to this string even though they have contracts with other companies"

Silver Medal For Rajeev Bagga

Ashaway's Rajeev Bagga's quest for gold faltered at the final hurdle when he was narrowly beaten (16-21, 21-17, 20-22) by Artemy Karpov of Russia.

The result is Bagga's first defeat to any Deaf competitor in 20 years of competition and his silver medal follows Singles gold at the previous five Deaflympics.

Bagga was a point away from glory at 20-19. But the Russian was returning Rajeev's smashes strongly and made it 20-all, before edging ahead to 21.

On the vital point, Karpov played a light drop serve which Bagga left, and it ooked to have landed out. But the umpire judged that the shuttlecock had fallen onto the line and Karpov fell to his knees in triumph.

Karpov - on a reputed €100,000 to win the title - took the first set when a netted Bagga backhand gave him a match point, which he took.

Immediately after the set, Team GB Badminton Manager Janet Thompson had to stride onto court to ask for a third Russian official to be removed, as only two are permitted courtside.

In the second set, Bagga went from 11-15 down to 18-15 ahead and took the set five points later when he had Karpov straining and failing with a shot from the floor.

The quality of the badminton on show was superb and the two players exchanged the early points with some fierce rallies in the final set.

Karpov stayed in touch with Bagga throughout the last set and it really was very close to call. The British fans in the gallery were about to explode when Bagga reached 20 points but it was not to be.

Rajeev - who first won gold in Christchurch 1989 and carried his run through Sofia 1993, Copenhagen 1997. Rome 2001 and Melbourne 2005 - afterwards donated his silver medal to Lithuanian competitor Tomas DovyDaitis who had badly damaged his ankle in competition.

As one onlooker commented, "Rajeev may have lost the gold but he still has a heart of gold"

There are many photo's of Rajeev at the championships here: http://www.bslbt.co.uk/sports/gallery/badminton

ZyMax - Worldwide Launch

We thought you maybe interested to see the different advertising across the world for ZyMax ...

On the Left is the USA advertising and on the right is the UK advertising, very different styles for the same message:

ZyMax - Maintains String Tension.

Have a look at the US website presentation to learn more about the technological advantages of ZyMax 62, 67 and 70.

Across the World ZyMax is really capturing badminton players imagination. Check out this amazing video from You Tube ... ZyMax 70 being strung at 41lbs!! :



Finally there is all sorts of discussion around the world about Zymax, here's an example from badminton central:

Badminton Central ZyMax Discussion

ZyMax is a quality product that for the first time means that badminton players can get the same performance from their string long after the have had it re-strung. ZyMax - Consistent Performance