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How often to pros get new balls in a match?

114 commentsu/RiffRaffe4w ago

I know Tennis has specific rules on how often the players get a new set of balls but I couldn’t find how often premier padel players do.

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u/pablobirukov4w ago

After 9th game and then after each 11th They consider warmup sessions, that’s why the first interval is shorter

u/RiffRaffeOP4w ago

Thank you.

u/quasibrasileiro4w ago

Every 9 games.

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u/qrhhg64w ago

Another question about pro matches, does the chair empire make every call in a pro match or do the players make the call and chair umpire intervenes when necessary?

u/GabrielQ19924w ago

when players call a ball and it gets reviewed, they lose the point if they called it wrong, if the referee called the ball wrongly, the point is redone, so the players are careful when calling shots. Umpire intervention is not something it's needed a lot tough, calling bad services is like 99% of the work it seems.

u/qrhhg64w ago

But who makes the initial call? Players or umpire

u/IIIIIlIIIIIlIIIII4w ago

I watched pro women and pro men. For some reason the women switched balls more often then men. Everytime the women had a first fault when serving they would switch out the balls.

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u/Main_Piccolo77814w ago

Thats just a preference. It’s not actually new balls it’s just the same they re-use until they get new balls which is after the first 9 games and after that it’s after every 11 games.

u/IIIIIlIIIIIlIIIII4w ago

Oohhhh, dient know that.

u/jmOropeza324w ago

It’s the same 3 balls, they try to use them all so that they get worn evenly if they didn’t do this the third ball would be quite different in bounce/surface at one point of the 11 games the can is used

u/zemvpferreira4w ago

Nitpick but pro padel is played with 4 balls at a time. Why are tubes 3 balls? Who the fuck knows!