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Fun Fact: David Attenborough Got Wimby To Switch White To Yellow Balls #tennis
| nubile gas station | 07/13/25 |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:24 PM Author: nubile gas station 43. A random piece of trivia we stumbled across: Who knew that Sir David Attenborough gets credit for Wimbledon switching from white balls to yellow balls? Working as a controller for the BBC in the 1960s, Attenborough—who, of course, is a public treasure who would go on to be knighted as a biologist, broadcaster and writer—suggested to his superiors that the white balls colliding with the white chalk lines made for bad visuals (and inaccurate line calls). A few years later, his suggestion that Wimbledon switch to yellow balls was adopted.
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