• jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    19 hours ago

    I didn’t know this until recently, but tennis balls wear out quite fast. Not structurally, not the felt, but the air inside escapes with the extreme pressure they endure. And soon they don’t bounce so well.

    If only sports balls had a way to refill the air…

    • dmention7@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Or just set a rule that you use the same ball the entire match. Balls wears out? Tough titties… improvise, adapt, and overcome.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Child, this is Tennis were talking about. It’s a rich people game. There’s no time to worry about trivialities like protection of the environment.

    • Rooster326@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Imagine if professionals had to play like you and I did.

      Not ideal conditions because who tf wanna go through 6,000 tennis balls in 1 day.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        And it’s bullshit, because so what if the ball is a bit less bouncy? It’s less bouncy to your opponent too.

    • Killer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Wonder what the feasability of redesigning the tennis ball to be like those airless basketballs are

    • bryndos@fedia.io
      83·
      16 hours ago

      Or maybe sports could be pass times for normalsaurs to play. Instead of some insane culturally mandatory entertainment industry.