Posted on 08/19/2023 12:29:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Men and women will use the same tennis ball this year at the U.S. Open, satisfying some women who complained last year they were hitting an inferior product.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek — who eventually won the tournament — was among the women who felt their lighter ball didn’t hold its strength as long as the one that was used by men. The U.S. Open had been the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments that used a different ball for men and women.
Stacey Allaster, the U.S. Open’s tournament director, said Thursday that the type of ball being used was entirely up to the players and their tour, and that the U.S. Tennis Association only needed to know their preference after last year’s tournament so enough balls could be ordered from provider Wilson.
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Nope. Too easy.
Women’s basketball should now stop using a basketball that’s about 2/3rds the size of a men’s ball. Unless they want to shoot at a smaller rim, of course.
Women want men’s balls?
Huh.
I think tennis is just a racket.
Oh boy. If I come up with something “tasteful” I’ll be sure to share.
The trannys like men’s balls
HOW DARE YOU SAY that the women want to play with the men’s balls !!!
I’ll bite.
These days the “women” look like they already have the men’s balls...
I learn something new every day. Now I find out that women’s balls are lighter than men’s balls.
No need to watch ball sports. I got my own to play with.
“Women’s Matches”?
Oh, I’ve been burned by some of those.
I do not care about the ten-nis balls used in women’s matches as long as they are not used by two-nis balled players.
Everything and anything out of divorce court.
Spock’s Brain
I just found me a brand new box of matches
I thought some of those women had the same balls. I had no idea they were playing with different balls. Who knew?
Had no idea that they were different.
At the college level, the difference is only 1 or 2 inches as I recall..maybe the difference is more pronounced at younger levels?
The Duke women were using a men’s ball — they didn’t notice the difference until near the end of the game. Duke’s coach protested while not admitting the ball was the same size for both teams.
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