The white tennis ball meant that it often blended into the background on the grass courts, making it difficult for viewers at home to see its movement. After the 1967 Wimbledon tournament ...

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Brokaw has cornered the market for plain, white tennis balls. The Greenville resident and his father, Roberts, started an Internet company that sells white tennis balls in ...

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 ...