The tournament has previously donated tennis balls to conservation groups that turn them into homes for harvest mice, but ...

Tennis balls are designed to be indestructible. While that may be good for your game it can be a problem our planet.

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. Top players ...

Would you like to live inside a tennis ball used by Wimbledon 2025 winners Jannik Sinner or Iga Swiatek? Just become a mouse. Wimbledon uses up roughly 55,000 yellow tennis balls during the ...

That was an exaggeration. All balls used in tournaments are approved by the International Tennis Federation, which has strict regulations on weight and weight change. Since the rules were last ...

Samay came up with an ace. She discovered a nonprofit in Vermont, RecycleBalls, that sells cylindrical bins you can affix to fences surrounding tennis courts. Once a player’s ball is spent, they can ...

Yellow felt and a rubber core. A tennis ball seems so simple. But reality is more complicated, at least on the pro tours where manufacturers can make balls that fit into a range of specifications ...

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 ...

People chuck tennis balls in the trash because they are hard to recycle. It's difficult to separate the fuzzy felt from the rubber and recycle the materials. That’s a problem for our planet.