Tourna Mini Ballport Tennis Ball Pick Up Hopper

Had my 10-y/o son assemble it. He succeeded. (So it's easy to assemble!)The only problems that concern:• The panels kind of warp where screwed together;time will tell if stress fractures occur.• The top bars that slide open/closed are stiff;we SLIGHTLY rounded the bar edges used a little vaseline.UPSIDES:• Lighter than metal.• Won't rust.• Folding handles/standing legs.• Holds 11 cans of balls!• Easily decorated/personalized.When we bought it, the price was right. Thus, I recommend.

I bought this hopper due to its light weight and ball capacity. I'm a casual recreational tennis player and just wanted something to help me practice on my own in-between drills and matches. I also purchased 36 Penn pressureless tennis balls for practice. The bottom roll bars worked fine with both the pressureless tennis balls and regular pressurized ones. It occasionally becomes difficult to pick balls up if other balls already in the hopper become wedged against one another. The hopper holds 36 pressureless tennis balls if you pack them in there tightly -- you may need to make some minor adjustments to the balls to get them to all fit.I like the design of this product but the manufacturing is disappointing. It is clearly a product that is churned out as cheaply as possible with little regard for quality. For example, the handles are meant to lock into place in two different positions for standing the hopper up or using it to pick up balls. Because of the poor manufacturing, the handles don't lock into place solidly. This makes the handles less stable which can result in the hopper toppling over with wind gusts. The low-quality was also apparent while assembling the hopper. The included instructions are very basic and inadequate -- just a little effort here could make it much easier to assemble. Also, while assembling, my hands got what felt like painful fiberglass micro-shards in them. I had to wipe all the parts down with a damp cloth to get the fiberglass shards off of them.Overall, I still recommend this product due to its convenient size and light weight. I wish there was a higher-quality, comparable product -- I would gladly pay a little more for it.

4.0 club player always trying to improve serve....I like this because it's small. It's like the squared off version of the baskets you use to pick up balls but not even that big. I initially thought i would just get a silver pick up basket and leave it in my car. This turned out to be a bit better because it's on a stand so i don't have to lean over to get the balls out when I'm serving.It was easy to put together, holds a decent amount of balls for single practice and you can put it up, break it down easily. I leave it up in a room in the house. When I think I might stop by the park to serve and work on my pronation, I put it in the trunk and off I go. Sure it's not the biggest ball holder and you don't have a huge cart of 300 balls to continuously serve from....but it's also not heavy, you won't wrench your back or shoulder and you can get out the door in a snap.If you need a bigger item because you want more balls, I wouldn't necessarily suggest going up in size of this type of ball holder. At that point I would get the canvas ball cart that kind of origamis out and is on wheels. It's portable, holds a good amount of balls and at that point I think you get a lot more balls/portability for the money.

Plastic panels deformed, making sliding rods on top to get stuck. At a time, balls also get clogged, making it hard to pick new balls. Get something else….

This could be one of the best values on Amazon for around 20 bucks... Simply put, assembly is a breeze, materials are solid and high quality, the functionality is perfect. Any review saying this is hard to put together or made of low quality materials is either a competitor or someone who has never opened the item. The main body is a hardened plastic like a shopping crate, So it is light, strong and will never rust. It is engineered very well and after 5 to 10 minutes of assembly you have the best ball hopper money can buy.