What colour are tennis balls

[Bramblebutter]

I say yellow
DP says green.

Whose right?

Yellow

Both.

They are yellow, I see plenty of them, I work in a tennis club!
Other colours are available but your bog standard adult tennis ball is yellow

If you're playing on grass, green would make it really hard to see the ball well enough..

Chartreuse

Haha! Me and my partner had this debate 5 years ago I remember even bothering my flat mate at the time as I said yellow and he said green. She said Yellow too so I still stand by that!

Yellow

"Traditionally they were green?????"

Traditionally they were WHITE. I think they were chaged to the fluorescent yellow so they would show up on TV (got that from Jilly Cooper's Polo).

I am old enough to remember the pleasure of buying yourself a new white tennis ball to play with, the beautiful pure clean thing, before it got dropped in puddles and ended up grey like all the others (see also - new plimsolls).

They are fluorescent yellow. (Yellow that has a green glow).

shop.wimbledon.com/wimbledon-2020-championships-tennis-balls-tin

@BalloonSlayer

"Traditionally they were green?????"

Traditionally they were WHITE. I think they were chaged to the fluorescent yellow so they would show up on TV (got that from Jilly Cooper's Polo).

I am old enough to remember the pleasure of buying yourself a new white tennis ball to play with, the beautiful pure clean thing, before it got dropped in puddles and ended up grey like all the others (see also - new plimsolls).

The ones that got lost in the vegetation long enough to grow lichen might have ended up green, I suppose....

Green. But you can get kids ones that are coloured red and blue I think. I remember when they were white.

Or rather greeny yellow.

I would say tennis balls are green, but I generally describe that colour (eg in a highlight pen) as fluorescent yellow.

Yellow balls are used at Wimbledon

By rule of tennis law—specifically, the International Tennis Federation, or ITF—a tennis ball should be yellow in color. The edict was handed down in 1972, after television viewers had trouble following the movement of white balls. Manufacturers like Gamma Sports also identify their product as yellow—in Gamma’s case, optic yellow.

Yellow. My DS sees them as green but I just cannot see how.

The white ones when I was a kid were the best though - always thinking 'This one, this one, I will keep clean for ever' and then three days later it was dingy grey.

How weird is the word ‘yellow’ lol

A few years back now but I recall when DS had lessons (from age 9 to teens) the kids played with different coloured balls dependent on their age / difficulty level . Don't know what the difference was .

Well colours are on a continuous spectrum and obviously there are different shades of yellow and green.

I'd say a tennis ball is yellow, but towards the green end of the spectrum, not the orange.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_color

Look more greenish than yellow to me.

@BashfulClam

...and 'potato'

@shinynewapple21

A few years back now but I recall when DS had lessons (from age 9 to teens) the kids played with different coloured balls dependent on their age / difficulty level . Don't know what the difference was .

The difference is how fast/high the balls bounce.

Once again happy to confirm regular tennis balls are yellow

Still work in a tennis club!

Green