For several months now, tennis players, both male and female, have been protesting the variety of brands of tennis balls with which they play each tournament. This produces injuries and a need for adapt to the characteristics of the balls, practically every week. We see the last example in this ‘Sunshine Double’: Penn in Indian Wells and Dunlop in Miami. Which has caused several players to protest again about the situation: “It can affect us more than the change of court. It is impossible to compare one tournament with another, because if the balls are different it cannot be compared,” he says. Taylor Fritz. It goes along the same line Raducano: “It hurts us a lot to have to change balls every week and, above all, when you have undergone an operation.”
“The conditions are like night and day, you hit a totally different ball and you have to change the tension. It’s not ideal,” he says. Pegula. In fact, the American goes further and asks that the entire season be played with the same brand of balls: “If we could at least keep the same ball every week, we could at least control that variable. There are other changing variables that we can leave pass, but when you’re constantly changing with all of them, it gets really difficult.
Indian Wells- Penn 🎾
Miami Open- Dunlop 🎾The pros say quick ball changes like these lead to injuries. Should the tours agree on one ball all season?#TheBreakTC | #MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/fKRNOWiO0b
— Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) March 22, 2024
2024-03-23 10:34:29
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