If you have ever watched a tennis match at a Grand Slam, you will have seen one of the giant yellow balls, usually held aloft by kids hoping to get the signatures of their favorite players.
For players fresh from winning, it is a welcome sight.
But for those who have lost, it has turned into a fuzzy yellow harbinger of doom.
Read more from James Hansen below on one of the staples of every Grand Slam.
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How the U.S. Open’s jumbo tennis ball became a cute and fuzzy yellow harbinger of doom
