Why Tennis Should Ditch the Warm-Up

Tennis' Carbon Footprint: Why Tennis Should Ditch the Warm-Up.

Tackling the entirety of tennis’s environmental impact in one fell swoop is a gargantuan task - and probably an impossible one – but drilling down into one aspect can highlight just how much work there is to be done.

We take a look at the humble tennis ball and the on-court warm-up. By doing away with the on-court warm-up, tennis can (a) become a better spectacle and (b) have a significant impact on its carbon footprint.

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[hussTennis]

thanks for highlighted the tennis balls issue. Every local tennis federation shall be involved in this question to find improvement to the huge footprint of our sport.

[ethangreenhalgh]

Brilliant channel. Informative and professional, keep up the great content!

[maximilianopombo]

I don't understand how this channel has so few views, it has great quality videos.
Keep it up :)

[ben]

The ball making companies need to grow each year to remain in business. They will find a reason to produce those balls whether they get used in warmups at grand slam matches or not. Only after removing the profit motive can there be a rational debate on how to produce things in a more sustainable way.

[selinakyle]

you guys are amazing. im really want to know just how professional this channel is- its really seems it would be a full time job but is that actually the case? you guys are brilliant either way and i wish you all the success.

[shubhamshrivastava]

You guys post absolutely amazing content. I am binge-watching all your videos!

[gary]

I like your channel, but this video is a bit of a stretch and your maths is a bit dodgy. You take 810 balls saved per Grand Slam and use that number for all other events, well clearly there are not as many matches at other events. Total number of balls saved would therefore be well less than a million, and out of 300 million that's not much.

[CookingPlanter]

Send the old balls to me, I will resell them on ebay and start a tennis academy.

[benashley]

so you think they wouldn't warmup exactly the same before the match, using just as many if not more balls?

not that it wasn't an educational video but you were really scraping the barrel with the premise. you could have made a video just about ball manufacture in general and that recycling company from the perspective of casual players such as those in your viewership, and then made the obligatory troll video about what Jmac and Gerard Pique think of pre match warmups separately, and got double the ad revenue

[FC-jdck]

The math of the 1 million balls was pretty bad. Grand slam matches are best of 5 sets for men, while other tournaments are best of three (some even have match tie-break for the final set); plus, Grand Slams have 128 singles brackets, while others have much less matches, thr number would be well below half of the estimative.

[maneebmasood]

This video is great but there is a problem, you cannot say that the number of ball changes in best 5 set matches is same as best of 3 set matches. The calculation needs some changes.

[jj]

This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen out of all the hundreds of millions of tennis balls abolishing the warmup will make literally no effective distance. Also you could abolish tennis altogether and that wouldn’t make an environmental difference either with nearly 8 billion people on the Earth