#tennis-balls

#tennis-balls

When we talk about achievements in professional sports, we're almost always talking about feats of athletic bravado: an impossible catch, a bicycle kick or a diving save. But there's also a particular corner of sports history where the narrative is driven more by gear than anything else - the deadball era of early 20th century baseball being one especially prominent example.

The court speed, I can't recall actually what was the year when it changed, when it started being slightly quicker than what it used to be,

In 1968, David Attenborough introduced color broadcasting to BBC2, with a focus on Wimbledon as the landmark event for this transition to color television.