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Just use old balls. They may not have much hair and be a little slow but it is the same for both players. In fact a bit more entertaining than 250km/h first ser
by barbarbar 5y ago
Just use old balls.
They may not have much hair and be a little slow but it is the same for both players.
In fact a bit more entertaining than 250km/h first serve (that nobody can see) and better for the environment.
- nwellinghoff 5y agolol. No.
- osrec 5y agoI don't know why you're being down voted. The OPs suggestion is so silly, primarily because they don't understand that even balls from the same pack deflate at different rates. You end up with a bunch of tennis balls that all behave very differently, and you can't really have a good game. A better suggestion would be to take unpressurized tennis balls...
- barbarbar 5y agoHave played - though mostly from baseline and mostly on clay court and hate new balls. So I do understand.
- jffry 5y agoThe post you are replying to got downvoted because "lol. No" is not a constructive response to a well-meaning suggestion. From the Hacker News guidelines [1], "In Comments" section: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Likewise, re: your comment, some other guidelines also apply: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. A kinder way to say what you said would be to remove this part entirely: "The OPs suggestion is so silly, primarily because they don't understand that...". You're phrasing it in a way that suggests that OP has been exposed to your knowledge already and simply came to the wrong conclusion, instead of assuming that perhaps OP simply doesn't have a lot of experience playing tennis with balls in different condition. An example for you to try instead would be something like: "Many players prefer not to use old balls because each one behaves differently and makes the game less fun. Even balls from the same pack deflate at different rates" etc etc [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- osrec 5y agoI appreciate your response, however, to a serious tennis player, the OPs comment is so naive, to the point that you wonder if they're being sarcastic. They probably lack the experience of playing tennis at a reasonable level, and have come to their conclusion in a very uninformed way. Almost suggesting all other tennis players are daft to not reuse balls! Why the heck would people spend money on a new set of balls before each match if it didn't materially impact the quality of the game?! Also, your post attempting to educate me is rather passive aggressive. In some ways, that's meanest kind of mean on HN :(
- jffry 5y agoYou continue to demean and put down the OP, in violation of this site's commenting guidelines. Telling you that your post is uncivil and pointing out specific problems and how to improve them is far from passive-aggression.
- kzrdude 5y agoWhy should we overconsume balls like this. It's just more pointless resource waste. We need to be smarter about how we live on this planet - in the large and the small. Tennis balls might be a small thing, but it is symbolic of the general thinking: just buy more of it, to solve whatever the problem is.
- yuy910616 5y agoAre we savages or what?
- barbarbar 5y agoActually I was not. But I think I see what you mean when reading it again.
- oblio 5y agoWell, he is bar bar bar.
- admn2 5y agoThey do make "pressureless" balls that arguably last a bit longer (which no one in the US uses it seems), but pressurized balls will go flat even if they're not being used if they're opened. Wilson has a new plastic-free ball that uses similar tech to pressureless called the Triniti, which attempts to solve the plastic part and they last about 5 sets plus.
- jansan 5y agoEven 10 year olds use a set of new balls per match in league plays. Not that it makes much sense, but that's how it is.