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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2007) | A tennis ball is a yellow or white ball designed for the sport of tennis, a little smaller than a cricket ball or baseball. They differ somewhat in weight, composition, and color. Modern regulation tennis balls are kept under pressure (approximately two atmospheres) until initially used. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ...
Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. ...
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History
In the early days of tennis, balls were often made of leather stuffed with hair or wool. Early tennis balls were made by Scottish craftsmen. These tennis balls were commonly made from a wool-wrapped stomach of a sheep or goat and tied with rope. Those recovered from the hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall during a period of recent restoration were found to have been manufactured from a combination of putty and human hair, and were dated to the reign of Pope Leo X. Other versions, using materials such as animal fur, rope made from animal intestines and muscles, and pine wood, were found in Scottish castles dating back to the 16th century. In the 18th century, ¾" strips of wool were wound tightly around a nucleus made by rolling a number of strips into a little ball. String was then tied in many directions around the ball and a white cloth covering sewn around the ball. This type of ball, but with a rubber core, is still used for the original game of tennis, today called real tennis. With the introduction of lawn tennis in the 1870s, vulcanized rubber was first used to manufacture balls, often in tubes of four with a package, but not with the name of the brand. This article is about the body feature. ...
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Craftsman is an artisan who practices a handicraft or trade; a style of architecture and furniture arising from the Arts and Crafts movement; a military rank within the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, equivalent to a private; and a brand of tools. ...
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This photograph from 1896 shows the hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall. ...
Clock Tower and New Palace Yard from the west The Palace of Westminster, on the banks of the River Thames in Westminster, London, is the home of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which form the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Pope Leo X Leo X, né Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici (December 11, 1475 - December 1, 1521), was the only pope who has bestowed his own name upon his age, and one of the few whose original extraction has corresponded in some measure with the splendour of the pontifical dignity. ...
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(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
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Jeu de paume in the 17th century. ...
Vulcanization is the process of cross-linking elastomer molecules to make the bulk material harder, less soluble and more durable. ...
Modern Tennis Balls Modern tennis balls are generally made in a fluorescent yellow color like the ball pictured above (called "optic yellow"). Yellow and white are the only colors approved by the USTA and ITF. Tennis balls must conform to certain criteria for size, weight, deformation, and bounce criteria to be approved for regulation play. The ITF defines the official diameter as "more than" 2 and 1/2 inches but "less than" 2 and 5/8 inches.
The most important test for amateur players is the bounce test, as tennis balls begin to lose their bounce as soon as the tennis ball can is opened. Most Tennis players prefer tennis balls with good bounce, extra duty, and can be used on all types of courts (e.g., lawn, clay, or concrete). To test a tennis ball for bounce, it is dropped from a height of 100 inches (2.5 m) onto concrete and must bounce back up between 53 and 58 inches (1.35 - 1.47 m). This test is assumed to take place at sea-level and 20° C / 68° F (high altitude balls have different characteristics when tested at sea-level). A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with grass, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height. ...
For other uses, see Clay (disambiguation). ...
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Tennis balls are filled with air and are surfaced by a uniform felt covered rubber compound.
The ball is to weigh more than two ounces but less than 2 and 1/16 ounces. The ball is made from pure rubber, which is then mixed with 14 to 17 chemicals to get the proper consistency. Approximately 85% of the ball weight is the rubber/chemical mix. Over 90% of tennis balls are produced in Southeast Asia where the natural resource is abundant. This does not cite any references or sources. ...
Each year approximately 300 million balls are produced, which contributes roughly 32.3 million pounds of waste in the form of rubber that is not easily biodegradable. 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. Biodegradation is the decomposition of material by microorganisms. ...
Tennis ball Manufacturers Slazenger is a British sports equipment brand name sold in nearly all parts of the world involving a variety of sporting categories. ...
Head logo Head is a sports equipment and clothing company, known for their tennis racquets which are used by many top players such as Andre Agassi, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marat Safin, and many more. ...
Prince Sports, Inc. ...
Wilson Sporting Goods (or simply Wilson) is a sporting goods company that is based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Tennis balls in literature The gift of tennis balls offered to Henry in Shakespeare's Henry V is portrayed as the final insult which re-ignites the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Shakespeare redirects here. ...
Title page of the first quarto (1600) Henry V, also known as The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ...
Belligerents House of Valois Castile Scotland Genoa Majorca Bohemia Crown of Aragon Brittany House of Plantagenet Burgundy Brittany Portugal Navarre Flanders Hainaut Aquitaine Luxembourg Holy Roman Empire The Hundred Years War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans) was a prolonged conflict between two royal houses for the French throne, vacant with...
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- When we have match'd our rackets to these balls,
- We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi John Webster (c. ...
The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614 [1] at the Globe Theatre in London, and published for the first time in 1623. ...
- We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded
- Which way please them
External Links - International Tennis Federation's history of the rules of the tennis ball
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