The British broadcaster played a role in changing the color of tennis balls, which were initially black or white Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the ...

Tennis. Rafael Nadal ... they share a color, called optical yellow, which in 1972 was adopted by the ITF - hence the 'age' of the current ball. Before that, the balls were white or black depending ...

Each year, since the turn of the millennium, word arrives from on high: Pantone, the self-described world's authority on color, announces its Color of the Year. On Thursday, Pantone declared ...