Should You Use Pressurised Or Pressureless Tennis Balls??

Pressurised vs Pressureless Tennis Balls

Pressureless balls are becoming more and more popular but how are they different to standard pressurised balls and which should you use?

In this video I show you!

Let me know if you’d like me to review different tennis balls and also which balls you like or hate!

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[kkarx]

Ok, after 20 years I finally learned the mystery of my former tennis couch who used extra hard balls that everyone hated. 🤣

[hardtrance]

Thanks for the video, doesn’t the pressure or no pressure also affect the bounce depending on the altitude you play at? Sea level vs. 2, 200 mts for example? At a tournament in Mexico City I was told we had to use pressure less balls to reduce to already big bounce you get at that altitude. Wonder if you know anything about this with your experience? Thanks! Great channel!

[JoeCool-lh]

Well over 300 million tennis balls are sent to landfills or incinerators annually. That is nuts. What over sport uses the ball for a few hours and then trashes it? If tennis converted to pressureless balls and we all strung our racquets a few lbs less the game would be just as much fun. It’s time for tennis to face the reality that it is a source of massive waste and there is a solution. I’ve been using Triniti balls for a year, play pretty hard 5-6 times/week and think they are just fine.

[ruemorg]

Triniti is actually pressurised ;) Just the core doesnt let the pressure out - I always call them a hybrid between traditional pressurised and pressureless balls. From Wilsons website: "We used an all-new material to create Triniti’s patented Engage Core, which maintains its fresh ball feel 4x longer than a standard rubber tennis ball core. This new core eliminates the need for pressurized plastic packaging."

[kneeslider]

If it weren't for the huge drop in profits when tennis balls suddenly last a few years instead of just a few weeks. You have to do the global maths to work out how much money is missing. In my opinion, this is the main reason why the development of unpressurised tennis balls is progressing so slowly.
For the environment, this would be 100% the better way to develop in this direction. But unfortunately, the environment and profit-orientation often get in each other's way. ;-)

[marvinko]

I recon you are pretty much right on the money. We use pressureless balls for beginners who maybe play once a week or group training sessions. Also I agree that if you do 90 min training sessions with pressureless balls, you really start to feel it in your arms.
But I think there is a chance for pressureless balls to improve if there is a demand for them. So yeah, I don't think pros should have to play with pressureless balls but there are too many recreational players who play once every 2-3 weeks who just parrot what the pros say and crack open a new tube every session. I would so like to hand these kind of players a set of pressureless balls and see if they even recognise the difference. Again, we're talking about very casual recreational players here

[harryharrison]

After a week of using presureless balls I didnt really notice the difference between them and nornal ones, but they do give a consistent ball over a full match, whereas presured ones obviously drop off pretty quickly.

[allainangcao]

Pressureless is great for long training sessions as you don't have to replace them when they go dead (which they never). They are great on rally walls, and they eventually soften up like regular balls but never go dead. Pressureless Tourna balls are what I use, and they are fairly cheap and have used them relentlessly. Still has a great bounce. Feel great on contact, even more when broken in, and are fun to use in practice matches. I would guess the only way they could go bad is if they get deformed after very, VERY long uses. You can use three pressureless balls and you only probably replace them after one and half years.

[aredt]

Why don't they just make the pressureless tennis balls out of something similar to a Racquetball

[pablosangabriel]

I’ve been using Tretorn Micro-x for over 11 years, the yellow/white ones which help not to get these mixed up when the balls roll over to another court. I tried Trinitis and found these to lose their bounce after 2+ months, not to mention these feel ‘boxy’ after a month or so. It’s true that pressureless feel heavier and can hurt your arm, but I’ve learned to adjust my racquet string tensions to 50-52 lbs from 55, and use ‘softer’ polys. I also diligently do elbow and wrist exercises to handle the weight of these balls during my ball machine workouts, and ice/heat prevention post workouts. Pressureless balls also are much less forgiving in misshits, especially when the felt wears off, which forces me to be more attentive about my strokes. Another downside to the Tretorns is that these are far more expensive: about $2.80 per ball vs $1.75 for regulation balls. But the best benefit from practicing with the Tretorns is that hitting regular balls feel so light and I can practically control my shots very well. My consistency is phenomenal and my rally tolerance is over 40+ shots.

[makoysurfer]

i use wilson triniti balls and love them. i use them for match play as well as serve practice in a hopper. they don't really lose their bounce, even when they have lost most of the felt.

[FYProduction]

Wilson Triniti is USTA and ITF-approved. So I have played with fresh ones for my USTA matches since the home team gets to decide the ball to use. It's used for the WTT team tennis matches.

[Mikele-ezjw]

Preassureless balls are to hard and heavy, they destroy your strings and joints

[gkinghsmith]

When I force my court to use them (doubles), the complaining starts in warmup and doesn't fade until the end of the first set. Afterwards I get the "they're ok" response. However, when we have more than 1 court and we're switching courts each set, the variance in feel is too much and it's back to the Pro Penns. Here in the states, a case of ProPenn's are up to $109 for a case of 24. The Triniti pro's are $135 for a case of 24, so the cost difference is much less than a couple years ago. To me the Triniti pro's last a good 8 hours or more and the ProPenns are done after 4 hours so now there's a cost incentive.

If we (has to start at the top) standardized on pressureless balls; String and Racquet setups and formulations would migrate to the different balls and we wind up in a much more sustainable place. And we better - otherwise the environmental impact will destroy our beloved game.

- Don't get me started on String....

[Deepggggg]

Thanks for talking about sustainability in the sport, not a lot of people talk about it.
Could you talk about tennis balls you'd recommend here in the UK? Most of the content online is US focused. Thanks!

[LiamApilado]

Wilson Triniti pro balls are much better than the regular triniti

[rel]

Triniti Pro balls are of much higher quality; I would not use any other pressureless ball. In summer, I use pressurized balls, but I use a ball saver to repressurize them between sessions.

[maksymbilous]

are Wilson Triniti the best you can recommend for Slinger Bag in regards of 'heaviness'? I tried already Balls unlimited code green + Artengo 160 - both nearly ruined my wrist... Wilson Team W Trainer feel little bit softer but also not comparable to pressurized. Out of your experience, which pressureless are the 'softest'?

[markdavies]

I have recently joined a club after a 10 yr wait and unfortunately they have chosen the Wilson Trinity as the official club ball. As per the usual its good for the planet argument, not necessarily 'The Game of Tennis, ' the club decision makers jumped on the band wagon and have endorsed these horrible balls. I have used Trinity balls numerous times and they have never failed to disappoint, either in sound, playability or pain in the arm. (Fit for the Bonfire) one critic said on Amazon. They will never be used on the Tour. No offense meant, but these balls are suitable for beginners and low level players and ball machines. It's once again sad, when political correctness and chest beating self righteouness, attempts to make unnecessary changes to arguably one of the most beautiful sports invented by Mankind... Shut down 1 coal plant in China and it will be of far more enviromental value than 10 billion tennis balls..

[kennotsee]

What are your thoughts on using a tennis ball pressurizer? I have been using them for a few years now and they do keep the balls fresher than without them. However, the there is no way to preserve the quality of the felt, which will continue to deteriorate with use. But I definitely do get many more hours out of the balls with the pressurizer.