The term "ball recovery" refers to a situation in sports, particularly golf or tennis, where a player successfully retrieves their ball after it has been hit or thrown away from them. This can involve chasing down the ball and returning it to its original position before taking another turn at playing the game. The phrase is also used more broadly to refer to any effort to regain control of a situation that may have gone awry, such as recovering lost data on a computer or reestablishing stability in an unstable financial market.