The balls’ properties are so crucial to the game that over 200 tennis ball brands are tested by the ITF each year, so now you know players aren’t just buying time before making that first serve.

In a nutshell MIT’s custom robot arm can perform human-style table tennis shots, including topspin loops, flat drives, and backspin chops, with an impressive 88% success rate across styles. The ...

Recent advancements in table tennis robotics have transformed the landscape of automated play, bringing together cutting‐edge techniques in motion planning, control, and trajectory prediction.

You can't play tennis without tennis balls. Yet an increasingly vocal group of players says that the tennis balls used on tour are behind a major problem: They're causing injuries.

Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don't think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for "new balls please." ...

In tournaments, the old balls are swapped for new ones after several games. Those livelier new ones can change a player’s strategy. By Stuart Miller Keep your eye on the ball. That’s the ...