Tennis Sunglasses: Why Players and Coaches Should Wear Them
If you’re a tennis coach or a tennis player spending a lot of time on court, then you should wear sunglasses for tennis. Here’s why…
The Moorfields Eye Hospital is a world class centre of excellence in eye care. In an article on their website called Looking After Your Eyes In The Sun, it says:
‘Excessive sun exposure can cause irreversible damage to your eyesight and can even lead to blindness.’
The article goes on to quote Mr Raja Das-Bhaumik, consultant oculoplastic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital: “It’s extremely important to protect your eyes in the sun to reduce the risk of developing cataracts and a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma.’
As a full time tennis coach, I spend days and days on court but until recently whilst I would put suncream on to protect my skin I didn’t protect my eyes at all!
From now on I will and the sunglasses I’m going to wear are Solar Bats.
That’s because the Solar Bats have been designed specifically for tennis.
From a safety point of view they are 100% UV protective but they offer much more than that…
The lenses mute all colours except for optic yellow (the ball) and white (the court lines). This means those two colours are enhanced so you see the ball and the lines much more clearly, even when the sun is behind cloud.
What’s more they have a darker gradient along the top to minimise ‘sun blindness’ when serving and hitting overheads. How ace is that? I’m sure we have all had a situation where the sun has distracted us when serving or we’ve lost the ball when looking up for a smash and encountering the blinding sun!
Unlike conventional sunglasses, the Solar Bats are designed to stay in place when you are running here and there and everywhere around a tennis court and as you’ll see from the images they are fine looking sunglasses!
A big thank you for my education of why it is is so important to wear sunglasses for tennis goes to Lee Taylor. Lee has had a fantastic tennis career having played for Lancashire at County Week and went on to win 21 ITF Seniors singles titles and reached number 4 in the ITF Seniors World Rankings in his age group.
Lee knows an awful lot about tennis and even more perhaps about tennis sunglasses! I spoke to Lee for the My Tennis Journey podcast and as you’ll hear, advice from Lee’s doctor led him on a quest to find sunglasses that were right for tennis. A quest that led Lee to becoming the Solar Bat Distributor for Europe and Australia. As you’ll hear, Lee is a lovely man and if you’d like to contact him about how to get hold of a pair of Solar Bats or if you have any questions please email him at lbtaylor44@gmail.com
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