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∙ 9y agoYellow tennis balls replaced white tennis balls because the Lawn Tennis Association decided that the white balls were difficult to see. You can still buy white balls nowadays at whitetennisballs.com, which is the leading modern and easiest seller for white tennis balls for sale to reach in America and internationally.
According to smithsonianmag.com, the first use of yellow tennis balls was in 1986 to make easier viewing on television. Wilson has always been making the white balls for lawn tennis which can be ordered online occasionally. But before the whitetennisballs.com company started selling in 2007, the white ball market was shut down for decades for most common use and is still quite rare. The only tennis balls that can be used in professional tennis is the neon and white, so it technically hasn't been changed within the rules of tennis.
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∙ 9y agoYellow tennis balls are supposedly easier for the umpire to see if the ball was to land inside or outside of the boundary lines.
All players must wear white at Wimbledon.
It's an old tennis tradition. Wimbledon is only current tournament with a white-only rule.
Traditional white.
No only White
Tennis at Wimbledon and Test cricket
Coloured balls came in when colour television came in. Mal.
yes she does play tennis at Wimbledon wearing a white layered dress
yellow or white
White, of course. Anything else and they won't let you on the court.
The tennis ball is yellow because of the felt on the outside of the balls. The words on the tennis ball you may see on the yellow felt is just letters people wrote in black ink. That is why the tennis ball is most likely to be yellow!---------------------They used to be white but the color yellow is easier for the players to see.Thanks for letting me answer!!Emily
That is exactly why they changed the color of tennis balls...