How much do tennis ball brands matter?
Over the weekend, for a doubles league match my partner was about to open a can of Wilson Championship extra duty balls as our team was designated to open balls. I stopped him and said “I’ll open my Penn balls” since I thought a more “dead” ball would maybe give us a slight edge.
Funny enough, I opened the can of Penns and the opponent said “ew Penns. You don’t have US Opens? I have a can of Wilson US Opens we can use”. I said “sure that’s fine” since it didn’t matter too much to me even though I just opened the can. So we played with his US open balls.
Now I’m shopping around for tennis balls to figure out what I should use as my opponent rejected my tennis balls 😭. I’m considering a slightly obscure brand like Diadem or Yonex or something.
In your experience, which balls do you prefer/ not prefer?