Global Sports: The History Of Tennis Balls

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The History Of Tennis Balls

By Mike Ryan


Do you play a lot of tennis? If you are, then you most likely never give the tennis balls you play with another thought. Outside of having a brand you like to use minimal thought is provided to the extensive and storied history of tennis balls as a whole. On the surface they seem like quite simple structures while actually they do have quite an interesting tale to them. No matter what shade tennis balls you have they all are the same dimension as they will usually be 6.7 centimeters overall and 2.7 in . in diameter.

With the millions of tennis balls strike every year worldwide, it's incredible how much emotion and frustration that come from hitting such a compact ball in the lines of the court that it's created to fit in between. To understand fully tennis balls it can be useful to know a bit about their background and how the idea of tennis balls which we know right now originally created.

Around the world, in the early days of tennis there were different ways that the tennis balls were made. For instance, in Scotland the inside of the ball was wrapped with wool with rope then used to tie the wool to give that tight feature that is essential in making tennis balls. People were so enamored with the sports of tennis is the early days that they would literally look for any way to be able to play even if it meant going to extreme measures to make tennis balls to play the sport they loved. We can probably all identify with the love of the game that they had during this period, can't we?

As we know, these days there is a little bit of a different method used to make the modern tennis balls that we play with day in and day out. In the modern day tennis balls are made pressurized and are covered in a fuzzy felt-like material. Each of those aspects of the new tennis balls is what gives them the properties they need to be able to travel at high speed as well as the ability to bounce which is of special importance in today's game.

As we know, these days there's a small amount of another approach used to make the contemporary tennis balls which we play with day in and day out. In the modern time tennis balls are made pressurized and are covered in the fuzzy felt-like materials. Each of these areas of the new tennis balls is what gives them the properties they need to be able to move at high speed along with the ability to bounce which is of special significance in today's sport. Any kind of condensed tennis balls will lose their lively standard over-time the more they are utilized. Did you realize they also make pressure-less balls today also? As the tennis balls are used they really are more bouncy, but usually shed their fuzz.




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