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Dead Spot on Hisense Arena Explained

submitted by BSR

4 years 10 months ago

Tennis balls are supposed to bounce. So what happened to this ball during a match at the Australian Open? Jorge Ribas explains.

9 Comments

BSR

*related https://videosift.com/search?q=Dead+Spot+on+Hisense+Arena

Dead Spot on Hisense Arena - Australian Open 2011 (Tennis) has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.

ant

You forgot to use an = so I connected it for you.

BSR

*related https://videosift.com/search?q=Dead+Spot+on+Hisense+Arena

BSR

Thanks for picking up the slack, pal.

Win 5 power points for caring.

ant

You forgot to use an = so I connected it for you.

ant

Thanks and you're welcome.

BSR

Thanks for picking up the slack, pal.

Win 5 power points for caring.

jokingly says...

The floor is broken!

Moving this video to BSR's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

wow, if they could reliably reproduce these air pockets then paint tennis courts with round dots to mark them, it would make a really interesting "extreme tennis" match.

BSR

Or make the dead spots little landmines. The ball wouldn't trigger it but a player stepping on it would.

wow, if they could reliably reproduce these air pockets then paint tennis courts with round dots to mark them, it would make a really interesting "extreme tennis" match.

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