Tennis Wall Art: Court, Ball and Stadium

The close-up is the tennis picture most people want

A tennis ball on the taut strings of a racket is the picture that says the sport in one object, and it is the most searched form of tennis art. The ball has been optic yellow since the International Tennis Federation approved the color in 1972, chosen because it reads on television, and that same reason makes it read on a wall: a bright yellow sphere against blue court paint or dark strings is a strong, simple composition. Variants in the range put the ball under the racket frame, beside a pair of court shoes on a wooden floor, hitting the net, or split between fire and water for a more graphic effect.

These are square-ish, centered pictures, and they suit a single canvas at 24 by 16 or 36 by 24 inches in a home gym, a study or above a desk. The four-panel 4 Pop layout also works here, because a close-up survives being split where a wide landscape would not.

The court and the stadium are the wide pictures

The second group is the court itself: a blue hard court photographed low along the baseline, an empty court with a stadium behind it, and the floodlit arena at night with the stands full. Blue hard courts became the standard picture after the US Open painted its courts blue in 2005, and they photograph better than green or clay because the white lines and the yellow ball sit on a cool, flat field. The night stadium pictures add the drama of floodlights and are the ones that suit a den or a bar wall.

Both are wide, low compositions with strong horizontal lines, and they are the tennis pictures for a 3 Horizontal set at 49 by 32 inches above a sofa, or a panoramic single at 36 by 12 or 48 by 16 inches above a doorway or a console. The illuminated court at night also comes as a panoramic, where the long shape matches the length of the court.

Vintage tennis art is a different product

A search for vintage tennis wall art usually means a reproduced poster: a 1920s travel print, a Wimbledon program cover, a wooden-racket illustration. Our range is photographic rather than poster art, so it does not carry that register. Where the range does reach back is in the objects: wooden floors, canvas shoes and a plain racket read as classic without a printed date. If a poster is what the room needs, the sports wall art guide explains why our whole sports range stays with the game rather than a team, an era or a logo.

Tennis and table tennis are two collections, not one

Table tennis has its own range, and it is the larger of the two. The pictures are red and black paddles, white or orange balls, and the blue or green table with its net, photographed close. They are bright, graphic and almost abstract, and they suit a games room or a basement where a full-size tennis court picture would be the wrong scale. They are not tennis pictures, and the two collections are not interchangeable: table tennis wall art holds the paddles, and the tennis collection holds the courts.

Where tennis wall art hangs

Home gym: the ball close-up or the court, in a single canvas at 36 by 24 inches, at eye level from a standing position. Study or office: the ball on strings, at 24 by 16, above the desk. Living room or den: the night stadium as a 3 Horizontal set, or the court as a panoramic. Teenager's room: the flying ball or the fire-and-water split, which are the pictures with the most energy. The golf wall art guide makes the same close-up against course choice for that sport, and the football wall art guide covers the stadium pictures for the two games that share that word.

What to browse

Tennis wall art holds the balls, rackets, courts and stadiums; table tennis wall art holds the paddles and tables; and sports wall art puts tennis beside golf, bowling, baseball and the rest of the range for a games room that follows more than one sport.