A ball boy ruthlessly squashes what appears to be a spotted lanterfly, an invasive insect species on the East Coast, after Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari saved the bug during her match in the ...

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.

In the early 2000s, Wimbledon organizers entered into a partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis Club and Wildlife Trust ...

Consider the tennis ball. The small neon orb is so ingenious in its design that it simultaneously inhabits the highest levels of perhaps one of our most demanding sports, fits snugly on the legs ...

Got tennis balls? Not if you’re in New York City. Everyone’s got tennis fever with the US Open in full swing, but players are causing a racket because of a ball shortage ravaging sports stores.

The U.S. Open is now in full swing, and nearly 100,000 new tennis balls will be used. Unfortunately, that means thousands of tennis balls will soon be useless to the tournament’s top players.

Around 300 million tennis balls are produced each year — and almost all of them end up in landfills, taking over 400 years to decompose. The US Open, which ended at the weekend, goes through ...