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A carrier for tennis balls includes a pocket with an open top, a retaining tab incorporating a plastic stiffening panel, and an inextensible but pliant connecting means for joining the retaining tab to the pocket near the top opening. The pocket is formed with a substantially flat back panel and a f

A carrier for tennis balls includes a pocket with an open top, a retaining tab incorporating a plastic stiffening panel, and an inextensible but pliant connecting means for joining the retaining tab to the pocket near the top opening. The pocket is formed with a substantially flat back panel and a front section that tends to protrude outwardly from the back panel giving the top opening a D-shaped top edge sized to conveniently accommodate a single tennis ball. The pocket diverges in the direction away from the top opening, so that along its bottom the pocket can accommodate two tennis balls side by side. The pocket, connecting region and two cover layers of the retaining tab preferably are formed from a single piece of woven fabric. The material nap, and the plastic panel stiffness, cooperate to enhance frictional retention of the tab when the tab is inserted inside a garment, between the garment waistband and the body. When so inserted, the tab supports the pocket and its contents by suspension through the connecting region.

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A tennis ball carrier comprising: a cloth pouch having a generally rectangular front panel section and a generally trapezoidal back panel section secured to one another to form a collapsible pocket sized to hold tennis balls and having closed sides, a top opening, and a closed bottom; wherein the fr

A tennis ball carrier comprising: a cloth pouch having a generally rectangular front panel section and a generally trapezoidal back panel section secured to one another to form a collapsible pocket sized to hold tennis balls and having closed sides, a top opening, and a closed bottom; wherein the front panel section has an upper edge which is generally concave and is longer than an upper edge of the back panel section, and wherein the back panel section is substantially flat, and the front panel section is secured along side and bottom edges to the back panel section and protrudes away from the back section to define the closed sides and a front of the cloth pouch, with the upper edges of the front panel section and the back panel section defining a D-shaped profile for the top opening when a tennis ball is in the cloth pouch; and a retaining tab for insertion between a waistband of a garment and an individual wearing the garment to hold the cloth pouch in position outside the garment, the retaining tab being flexibly connected to the upper edge of the back panel section of the cloth pouch and including a cloth front layer, a cloth back layer, and a flexible stiffener sheet enclosed between the cloth front layer and the cloth back layer, the flexible stiffener having length and width dimensions which are approximately similar to length and width dimensions of the cloth front and back layers.