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beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack and the flag of Eritrea combined by the model into one photoreal composition. The flag fills the frame with its red triangle running from the hoist to the fly point, the green band above and the blue band below, and the gold olive wreath enclosing an upright olive branch set on the red near the hoist. The fabric is lit hard from one side so the folds carry the light, and the box of overgrips is composed into the arrangement so that the wrapped rolls and the gold wreath read as one object, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed at the Fiat Tagliero Building in Asmara, Eritrea. A white Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane, two bare concrete wings cantilevered thirty metres over the forecourt with nothing holding them up, a glazed control cabin in the centre. Early morning, hard raking sunlight throwing the wing shadows flat across the apron: a taxi being hand-washed, a minibus loading passengers, an attendant dragging a hose, two men arguing pleasantly over a bonnet. The box of overgrips sits low on a worn concrete kerb in the near foreground, unattended and ignored by everyone.
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed outside Cinema Impero on Harnet Avenue in Asmara, Eritrea. A 1937 Art Deco cinema with a red facade, three tall vertical windows and rows of small round porthole lights, seen wide from across the avenue. Blue hour on a warm evening, the porthole lamps just coming on, palms silhouetted: a queue folding back along the pavement for the evening showing, a vendor selling roasted nuts from a barrow, two boys running the length of the line, headlights streaking past. The pack of overgrips rests on a low painted railing at the pavement edge, small in a wide frame, entirely unnoticed.
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed at the Asmara Opera House on Harnet Avenue in Asmara, Eritrea. A neoclassical theatre with a colonnaded portico and a wide open cafe terrace in front, shot from an elevated angle looking down onto the terrace. Hard vertical midday sun, black-edged shadows under the columns, glare off the paving: the terrace busy with the late-morning coffee crowd, a waiter carrying a loaded tray one-handed between tables, students spilling down the steps mid-argument, an old man reading a folded newspaper. The box of overgrips sits on the corner of a marble cafe table below, ignored by the entire terrace.
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed in the Medeber metalworking yards in Asmara, Eritrea. Close and intimate among old stone sheds, cut oil drums and stacked scrap, with sparks and hammer noise everywhere. Late afternoon, dust hanging gold in slanted light, smoke drifting: a smith mid-swing flattening a drum panel, another cutting sheet with shears braced between his knees, a boy stacking finished buckets, a coffee roaster being tested over a flame. The pack of overgrips lies flat on a battered workbench between two half-made stoves, untouched by anyone.
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack and the flag of Eritrea combined by the model into one photoreal composition. The flag fills the frame with its red triangle running from the hoist to the fly point, the green band above and the blue band below, and the gold olive wreath enclosing an upright olive branch set on the red near the hoist. The fabric is lit hard from one side so the folds carry the light, and the box of overgrips is composed into the arrangement so that the wrapped rolls and the gold wreath read as one object, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack

Asmara, Eritrea  ·  Accessories > Grips

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack

<p>This is a fifty-strong box of 0.6mm polyurethane overgrip — wafer-slim, tacky, and annoyingly difficult to fault. I have wrapped handles in better cities than Asmara. Fine, no I have not, and none of them at 2,300 metres, and none of them make coffee like this. Walk it with me first and I will concede the rest afterwards.</p>

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Four stops before the checkout

Asmara, Eritrea
01
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed at the Fiat Tagliero Building in Asmara, Eritrea. A white Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane, two bare concrete wings cantilevered thirty metres over the forecourt with nothing holding them up, a glazed control cabin in the centre. Early morning, hard raking sunlight throwing the wing shadows flat across the apron: a taxi being hand-washed, a minibus loading passengers, an attendant dragging a hose, two men arguing pleasantly over a bonnet. The box of overgrips sits low on a worn concrete kerb in the near foreground, unattended and ignored by everyone.
Stop one

Fiat Tagliero Building

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack: A petrol station shaped like an aeroplane, and the world loses its mind. Completed in 1938 to a design by the Italian engineer Giuseppe Pettazzi during Italian colonial rule: glazed central tower for the offices, two reinforced-concrete wings soaring out roughly fifteen metres a side with no supporting columns. The colonial authorities doubted the cantilevers would stand and demanded timber props; legend holds Pettazzi insisted the supports be knocked away at the opening. Excellent story. Nobody recorded the name of the man swinging the hammer, or of the labourers who poured the concrete. The wings have held nearly a century. UNESCO, 2017.

02
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed outside Cinema Impero on Harnet Avenue in Asmara, Eritrea. A 1937 Art Deco cinema with a red facade, three tall vertical windows and rows of small round porthole lights, seen wide from across the avenue. Blue hour on a warm evening, the porthole lamps just coming on, palms silhouetted: a queue folding back along the pavement for the evening showing, a vendor selling roasted nuts from a barrow, two boys running the length of the line, headlights streaking past. The pack of overgrips rests on a low painted railing at the pavement edge, small in a wide frame, entirely unnoticed.
Stop two

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack: Completed in 1923 on Harnet Avenue, the central boulevard, in the Lombard Romanesque style of northern Italy — red brick, rose window, campanile over the city centre. Northern Italy, transplanted whole, at somebody else's expense. It served as the principal Catholic church of Italian Eritrea, a phrase worth sitting with for a moment. The bell tower is still a fixture of the skyline and a practical reference for navigating the grid of the colonial-era centre, so at least it earns its keep. It stands within the UNESCO-listed modernist district, representing the historicist strand that preceded the futurist and rationalist experiments of the 1930s.

03
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed at the Asmara Opera House on Harnet Avenue in Asmara, Eritrea. A neoclassical theatre with a colonnaded portico and a wide open cafe terrace in front, shot from an elevated angle looking down onto the terrace. Hard vertical midday sun, black-edged shadows under the columns, glare off the paving: the terrace busy with the late-morning coffee crowd, a waiter carrying a loaded tray one-handed between tables, students spilling down the steps mid-argument, an old man reading a folded newspaper. The box of overgrips sits on the corner of a marble cafe table below, ignored by the entire terrace.
Stop three

Cinema Impero

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack: Opened in 1937 on Harnet Avenue and regarded as one of the best-preserved Art Deco cinemas in Africa. Mario Messina designed it at the height of Italian colonial building in Eritrea: a facade of vertical fins studded with rows of circular lamps, an auditorium built to seat around 1,800, original detailing intact. And the name, Impero, recalls the empire Fascist Italy proclaimed after conquering Ethiopia. That is what it was named after. The empire lasted no time at all; the cinema went on screening films for Asmara audiences for decades, which tells you which of the two anyone actually wanted. UNESCO centrepiece, 2017.

04
beginner tennis classes Harbor Beach — the Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack photographed in the Medeber metalworking yards in Asmara, Eritrea. Close and intimate among old stone sheds, cut oil drums and stacked scrap, with sparks and hammer noise everywhere. Late afternoon, dust hanging gold in slanted light, smoke drifting: a smith mid-swing flattening a drum panel, another cutting sheet with shears braced between his knees, a boy stacking finished buckets, a coffee roaster being tested over a flame. The pack of overgrips lies flat on a battered workbench between two half-made stoves, untouched by anyone.
Stop four

Great Mosque of Asmara

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack: Completed in 1938 to a design by the Italian architect Guido Ferrazza and known as Al Khulafa Al Rashiudin, taking its place with the Catholic cathedral and the Orthodox cathedral as one of the three great religious anchors of the centre. Italian rationalist symmetry fused with classical and Islamic elements: a domed prayer hall, a colonnaded front, a slender minaret among the tallest structures in the city. The planners get credit for working across faiths in one townscape, which sounds enlightened until you ask who was permitted to plan and who was permitted only to build. UNESCO inscribed the whole modernist ensemble in 2017, and the mosque stands inside that listing. The congregation fills the mosque and the square at Friday prayers. That part is entirely theirs.

The Asmara, Eritrea track

Diadem Pro Feel Tennis Overgrip 50-Pack

Written for this world alone.

<p>Fifty overgrips is a coaching-shed quantity rather than a personal one, so let us be quick and complete about what is actually in the box. The Diadem Pro Feel is 0.6mm thick, 25mm wide and 1,130mm long, built from polyurethane over a non-woven backing.

That 0.6mm is the entire argument for it: thin enough that it barely moves your handle size or your bevels, tacky enough that you are not stopping to re-wrap between sets. It wicks moisture rather than sitting in it, and it holds its tack through long sessions instead of going glassy after forty minutes.

Colours run white, black, teal, pink and yellow, or assorted if you are handing them out to a squad.</p>
<p>Asmara is a fair place to test a grip.

The city sits at roughly 2,300 metres on the Eritrean plateau, where the air is thin and dry and your hands sweat anyway because the sun at that altitude is relentless — the exact conditions that separate a grip that stays tacky from one that goes powdery.

You will get through this box everywhere from a bright morning session to a floodlit doubles set that runs past dinner, and by the way, fifty of anything makes sense in a city whose Medeber quarter has spent decades beating old oil drums back into stoves and coffee roasters because nothing gets wasted here.

It is also, quietly, a cycling nation — Eritrea sends riders to the Tour de France — so Asmara understands better than most what a well-wrapped set of handlebars is worth to a pair of hands.</p>
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