About this product
Dunlop’s Pro – a double yellow dot squash ball, which is the competition standard and the slowest, lowest-bouncing ball made.
Dunlop’s Pro is the official ball of the PSA, World Squash, Squash Canada and US Squash, and it has the lowest bounce of Dunlop’s four balls.
Here is the thing about double yellow that shops usually skip. A squash ball only bounces properly once it is hot – the air inside the rubber has to be warmed by repeated hard impact before the ball comes alive. A double yellow is engineered to need the most warming of any ball, deliberately, so that strong players hitting hard do not produce endless rallies.
Which means that in a beginner’s hands it is miserable. They cannot hit hard enough to warm it, the cold ball dies on the floor off the front wall, every rally lasts two shots, and they conclude squash is impossible or that they are bad at it. None of that is their fault – it is the wrong ball.
If you are starting out, buy a blue dot. Then red, then single yellow, and come to double yellow when you are hitting properly. If you already play at a decent level, this is the ball you want and nothing else will do.
Dunlop publish the comparison across their range plainly: the blue-dot Intro is 12 percent larger with 40 percent longer hang time than the Pro; the red-dot Progress is 6 percent larger with 20 percent longer; the single-yellow Competition has 10 percent longer. The Pro is the baseline they are all measured against.
One local advantage: a warm Dar court brings any ball up faster than a cold European one, so a double yellow is a little more forgiving here than it would be in a British club in February.
Buying a Yellow Dot Squash Ball in Tanzania
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the yellow dot squash ball at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Every yellow dot squash ball is checked in store before it leaves us, and our staff use the same kit in the field, so you get an honest answer on fit and sizing rather than a sales pitch.
Not sure which yellow dot squash ball suits you? Call or message the showroom and we will talk you through the options that are actually in stock in Dar es Salaam.
Spare parts and replacements for the yellow dot squash ball are easier to get here than on an overseas order, which matters once the gear is in use.
Browse more Sports in Dar es Salaam, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on sports equipment, see this overview on Wikipedia.
Dunlop Pro Double Yellow Dot Squash Ball