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Tennis Ball Machine

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $2.0M a year here. But products sell for $773.34 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Tennis Ball Machine is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 12% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +12 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$2.0M/yr590K searches / yr
90-day growth
+27.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 43 sellers

Flapen Score

Tennis Ball Machine against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Tennis Ball Machine is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Tennis Ball Machine market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Tennis Ball Machine 590K times last year and spent an estimated $2.0M. The top 5 brands take 66% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 590K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +27.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $2.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
590K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+27.2%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
$2.0Ma year
Peak month
July1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
tennis ball machine333K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $773.34.

Listings sell for $773.34 on average, from $19.43 to $1986.75. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $773.34 that is $0 to $77K a year per listing.

Average price
$773.34above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$19.43–$1986.75
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$77K
Returns
2.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 75% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #5,363 within Tennis & Racquet Sports. It carries 838 reviews at 4.24 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
75%
Out of stock, average day
12.7%
Average rank
#5,363in Tennis & Racquet Sports
Average rating
4.24 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
838per listing
Listings tracked
44

04 · Newcomers

8 of last year's 11 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

11 products launched here in the last 12 months. 8 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
8Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Tennis Ball Machine products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

21 rising

Sellers

43

Top-5 brand share

66%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 77%

Open market

31%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Tennis Ball Machine search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

18K13KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Tennis Ball Machine search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • tennis ball machine333K/yr
  • tennis machine46K/yr
  • tennis ball machines36K/yr
  • tennis ball machine for practice29K/yr
  • ball machine19K/yr
  • tennis machine ball thrower19K/yr
  • slinger tennis ball machine23K/yr
  • tennix tennis machine7K/yr
  • ball machine tennis12K/yr
  • lobster tennis ball machine9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Tennis Ball Machine

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

13%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
19%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.0%of orders come back
“Broke after a few uses”
A buyer, on “Durability”19% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Tennis Ball Machine questions

Answered from the same tracked data.