Talk:Tennis ball

message: Historically, balls were either black or white in colour, depending on the background colour of the courts. In 1972 the ITF introduced yellow tennis balls into the rules of tennis, as research had shown these balls to be more visible to television viewers. Meanwhile Wimbledon continued to use the traditional white ball, but eventually adopted yellow balls in 1986. 
ref= http://www.itftennis.com/technical/equipment/balls/history.asp 
Just an interesting note: I have polled about 300 people about the color of the classic tennis ball, even showing many of them a picture, and it's split 50-50 as to whether it's green or yellow. I say yellow. --JohnLattier 00:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tennis balls are generally a bright yellow, but they do seem to have a slight greenish tinge. I believe the image on the page looks extraordinarily green because of unnatural lighting conditions in the photo. Someone is welcome to produce a more clear image... Freedomlinux (talk) 01:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

text: The first picture you link to shows a color of tennis ball I have never seen.  Go to the store, folks, and look at a can of brand new tennis balls.  You'll see that they are nothing like this odd ball and much closer to this.  Some even say "optic yellow" on the can.  As the balls get used, the color dulls, and it's my theory that since most are played on a surface that is painted green, the balls pick up some of that green color.  In any case, there is a very slight green tint to new tennis balls that somehow is enhanced as the balls are used.  See this image for an example. Matches10 (talk) 03:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ball Color 

message: Could we perhaps add a segment on how they are produced?
155.92.33.244 22:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manufacturing 

message: Text was added as noted below:
by Soundgreen (Talk | contribs) at 18:23, 26 April 2008
"Each year approximately 300 million balls are produced, which contributes roughly 32.3 million pounds of waste. Historically, tennis ball recycling has not existed and the most common use has been to cut the ball into two semi-spheres and attach this to the bottom of chairs in schools, nursing homes and the like."
(Is that truly the most common use?  Has this been verified?  I'd have thought the most common reuse of tennis balls was as dog toys, and I've seen far more split tennis balls as trailer hitch covers than as chair feet Jbrecken (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The guy was linkspamming his recycling company on the article so it probably comes from his firm. Montco (talk) 02:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Oh well! Still, I'd sure be interested in finding some solid information and stats on this, and then maybe that could be used, in part, in this article.--Bkengland (talk) 17:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental issues related to tennis balls 

message: "This human hair is believed to have come from the enemies of the Scottish, and was harvested on one of their many conquests to Great Britain." Who are these enemies conquering Great Britain - the English? How did their balls get stuck in the roof? It's one to ponder. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 18:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hairy Balls? 

message: One section says "History of yo mama. This is vandalism, right? --72.136.31.208 (talk) 23:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: The narrative provided in the pressureless ball section is incoherent (to me). I recommend revision to cut out seemingly irrelevant and/or unsubstantiated information.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DotSlashSteven (talk • contribs) 00:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pressureless Ball section is a mess 

message: Classic case of Citogenesis. Google can only find two mentions of this, both are blog posts from after the content was inserted a while ago by an IP. I can't believe no one found and challenged this for four years!!!—Love, Kelvinsong talk 18:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spongebob balls 

message: Under the disposal section there is a link to a BBC webpage stating that tennis balls are now recycled to make homes for harvest mice. The BBC article referenced is from 2001 and doesn't suggest anything other than that a small number of the used balls that year would be used, it also doesn't indicate a regular or ongoing commitment to do so. In this respect the article entry is misleading as there doesn't appear to be any subsequent evidence to show that this has happened at all since 2001 with regard to tennis balls from Wimbledon. It is also likely that only a few hundred of the 36,000 balls used would have been used for this purpose too given the evidence from elsewhere, as in this example from 2013 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22314712.
Andyh2o2 (talk) 13:31, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tennis ball disposal 

message: — Assignment last updated by ENCPROJ. (talk) 23:36, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: English Composition 2

message: Hi! I added a couple of sentences explaining the original method of manufacturing tennis balls at the beginning of the history section. Don't know if that's the best spot to put it in or to create another subtitle named "Manufacturing Tennis Balls" or a simple way of saying how tennis balls are created because I want to find the current way of making it and of course add that either in this section or a new section... also, the reference created shows a type of error that I don't really understand. I'd appreciate any support and advice. --ENCPROJ. (talk) 23:15, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Good find. I moved the bit down to keep a better chronological flow, and filled out some details of the reference, but good stuff! oknazevad (talk) 23:51, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original/Current method of creation