Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Masao Nakamura

Kuniyasu Horiuchi

Ichiro Tominaga

A tennis ball having a felt covering which has superior abrasion resistance, felt appearance and resistance to fuzzing which may occur during the use of ball, the felt covering being made of a polyethylene terephthalate fiber including a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer containing at least 90 mole % of recurring ethylene terephthalate units which satisfies the following parameters:

Tennis ball

Pressureless tennis balls which comply with regulations of the International Tennis Federation and produce a satisfactory feel of striking retained over an extended period of play, and which comprises a hollow spherical core made from a rubber composition the rubber component of which contains 5 to 50% by weight of a particular modified polybutadiene containing 5 to 30% by weight of syndiotactic-1,2-polybutadiene and at least 40% by weight of cis-1,4-polybutadiene.

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Kobe, Japan

Masao Nakamura