Eurosport expert Alex Corretja says “it doesn’t make any sense” for women and men to use different balls at the US Open. The US Open is the only Grand Slam where two different types of balls are used for the men’s and women’s tournaments, with the latter using lighter balls. This could be a disadvantage to the harder-hitting players.
Ad Iga Swiatek explained women players had elbow injuries when using heavier balls which led to a change. US Open‘The best Kyrgios we have ever seen’ – Corretja says Australian will be ‘dangerous’AN HOUR AGO But the world No. 1 now thinks women are fit enough to handle the same balls as the men and is one of several players who have called for a change.
“It's been like that for many, many years and maybe it's time to just to put it together, and especially if those balls that they using are not suitable to play on hard court,” said Corretja. “Maybe before, they did it because they felt like it was an advantage for them to give them a little bit in like, let's say, an extra power. “But now we can see that the players, the women, that they're hitting so hard, so they need to have a little bit more control.
And I heard like the ball for them, it seems like it's flying because they're lighter or whatever, and they don't have that nice feeling. “When you're a player, you need to have a feeling to play. So I think they should consider that maybe for next season, they should just play with the same ball because probably in these days where we are, it doesn't make any sense anymore to have different balls.” Complaints about the balls were made by Ash Barty’s former coach Craig Tyzzer who claimed the Australian would never win the US Open due to the ball rules.
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