Handler for tennis and similar play balls

An apparatus for carrying, retrieving and dispensing play balls comprising at least one elongated container for receiving and dispensing one or more play balls, said at least one container being open at each end, one of said ends being a ball receiving end and the other end being a ball discharge end, said ball receiving end having a plurality of elastic protrusions which are sufficiently deformable to permit entry and retention of play balls in said at least one container, a ball being retained when said container is inverted, said ball receiving end is placed over a ball and said container is lowered to cause a ball to be forced past said protrusions for retrieving balls from the playing surface, an elongated vertically extending support member having said at least one container attached to its upper end and a base member attached to its lower end, a tray supported on said support member intermediated said upper and lower ends and closely adjacent said discharge end for receiving balls from said container, said balls being gravitationally discharged through said discharge end when said apparatus is returned to an upright position and supported on said base member.