All tennis matches should have dog ballboys

This video of Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova playing a tennis match with ballpups is from January, but it’s new to me. Three million people saw this and not one of you told me? What the hell, guys? (UPDATE: It appears my coworker James Dator saw this in January and didn’t tell me. I’m going to fight him now.)

Here are the pros to ballpups:

-- Faster than human ballboys and ballgirls

-- Will work for treats and affection

-- Love tennis balls so so so so so so so much

-- Adorable

Here are the cons to ballpups:

-- Don’t understand the rules of tennis, therefore don’t have innate understanding of when to fetch balls

-- Easily distracted, might run on court at random times (wait, is this a con?)

-- Sometimes they grab Svetlana Kuznetsova’s towel and refuse to let go

-- poop

Considering the cons, we doubt ballpups will be adopted by any actual tennis event, which is a shame. It works for minor league baseball teams! BRB, gotta go start our own tennis tournament to make this happen.