The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has developed a prototype of a ball without a fabric cover which it hopes will provide an environmentally friendly option to the rubber and felt in ...

Dive into the science of manufacturing high-quality tennis balls. Discover the meticulous process from rubber compound formulation to the final bounce test, ensuring durability and performance on ...

Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don't think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for "new balls please." ...

What's more, the core of most top-level tennis balls - such as the Wilson U.S. Open extra-duty model in play at Flushing Meadows - is only made from newly created, virgin rubber, which activists ...

You can't play tennis without tennis balls. Yet an increasingly vocal group of players says that the tennis balls used on tour are behind a major problem: They're causing injuries.

Around 300 million tennis balls are produced each year — and almost all of them end up in landfills, taking over 400 years to decompose. The US Open, which ended at the weekend, goes through ...