Tennis balls are made up of a hollow rubber core and a wool or nylon shell known as the nap. In tournaments they must be white or yellow in colour. The rubber core is usually filled with pressurised ...

Wimbledon shared how Sir David Attenborough and his love for tennis not only brought the game to television but actually changed the color of the ball from plain white to optic yellow. Natural ...

Two years later, Penn’s “optic yellow” balls, which popped on color screens, replaced white balls at pro ... to the biggest fish in the tennis sea, Wimbledon. But the network, which was ...

In tournaments, all balls have to be white or yellow in colour. This year, Slazenger is supplying 52,200 tennis balls to Wimbledon. About 20,000 of these are used for qualifying and practice. Every ...

tennis ball! We've tracked down some of the *real* stars of Wimbledon, to find out what's on the minds of these little green balls ...

What comes to mind when you think of Wimbledon? A wild guess would ... sweating was considered incredibly improper, so white outfits were introduced to tennis in order to hide people’s ...

The Championships, Wimbledon has the strictest dress code of all the major Grand Slam tennis tournaments. The players must wear white. All white. It's tradition. The All-England Club, where the ...