Why Are Tennis Balls Fuzzy and Yellow?

Why Are Tennis Balls Fuzzy and Yellow? A tennis ball is wearing a jumper, and the colour it is painted exists almost nowhere in nature. Neither choice is decoration. Here is why the fuzz roughly doubles the ball's drag on purpose, why topspin would be impossible without it, why the sport changed colour in 1972 for people watching at home — and why Wimbledon refused to go along with it for another fourteen years. #OscarExplains #WhyAreTennisBallsFuzzy #WhyAreTennisBallsYellow #OpticYellow #TennisBallPhysics