Tennis is not a game for everyone..some find it boring, exhausting & others find it fun, relaxing..& it’s a pretty expensive sport, too. But for the die-hard players & enthusiasts, nothing beats it, it’s their life. One thing about tennis is that, you’ll not only need a good racket but also good playing balls. I don’t understand why others don’t take care of their balls! Hehe..don’t think dirty guys..what I only mean is that others don’t bring their own tennis balls to the court but still complain about somebody else’s balls being already bald & less bouncy, I don’t understand. Well, tennis balls are actually expensive & I’m just lucky that I don’t need to buy that often. In my level & with my skills, I can repeat playing the same balls for weeks with no trouble at all.
Oh, talking about bad balls–my friend & I bought several cans (tubes) of Dunlop Volley tennis balls just recently. Know what? I consumed my 3 cans in 3 days (1 can/day for 3 Sundays) playing on a hard court while my friend used up 6 cans of balls in just 3 days (2 cans/day) playing on a clay court. The fact of the matter is that, ‘though the balls were brand new, they all cracked or broke so easily even during the very first set of our tennis game. They were all bad balls. I’ve learned that we shouldn’t buy cheap balls from any manufacturers just because the prints say it’s no. 1, best-selling, or championship balls. It’s often a crap or means nothing but if we buy the one that costs more, it’s worth it. After having tried those Dunlop Volley balls, I feel like there’s no way I’m gonna use them again. The balls break, deflate & fall apart rather quickly. I wish they’d just stop making crap balls..it’s pretty sad what has become of the tennis ball industry nowadays. I’m even more apprehensive if shops or malls still sell them & worse if they continue selling those really old balls in their stockroom just for the sake of getting rid of them & disposing them all off their shelves. This practice is really bad. All 9 cans of tennis balls were crap & a complete wastage of time & money. We’re far better off when each company made only one kind of ball..a good ball.
I’ve tried Penn Championship balls before & I liked them a lot. The feel was soft & light in contrary to Dunlop balls, which are normally heavy & bigger. Wilson U.S. Open balls are quite fine, too. I agree that there are bad balls out there, many of them, Dunlop Volley balls are the worst I’ve experienced just recently. I have a feeling that they’re deliberately selling bad balls just to make the decent & more expensive ones seem mind bogglingly perfect. I have heard that Slazenger balls are way better than the others only that they’re damned expensive. Yeah, quality balls matter, cheap balls are a waste of time. Tennis balls come in different qualities & that it makes a difference in the quality of hitting experience you have on the court. The balls may look great on the outside but they have major irregularities: seam composition is unbalanced like there’s more rubber in one area than another, rubber tags hanging from the seams that you have to pull them off yourself..the fuzz is irregular, too.