Why are tennis balls fuzzy?

Alternative post alert… Mindsponge is an educational web-series on YouTube.  The goal of the series is to find the science, history, stories, and reasons behind questions that a lot of people have asked before, but that most people don’t know the answers to.  You may be wondering why I am writing about this on a tennis…

Birmingham, Queens, 2nd Round Predictions: Hantuchova v Bencic, Ward v Dimitrov and more

The main draws in Birmingham, Queens and Halle all kicked off today.  My first round predictions for Birmingham are following a similar trend to 2013.  Looking at my full draw predictions, i’ve never seen such a solid cluster of red.  There were a number of surprising results; one of the more eye popping was Victoria…