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cardio class — the coiled black co-polyester set composed together with the flag of Poland, the plain white-over-red horizontal bicolour filling the frame behind it and caught mid-snap in a hard wind so the fold runs diagonally across the join of the two bands, bright overcast daylight raking across the coil, no lettering anywhere in the picture.
cardio class — the packeted string set photographed in the municipal park at the Bobrowski Palace in Andrychów, Poland: a long two-storey horseshoe-plan manor in pale render with a shallow tiled roof and a columned centre, mature limes around it on flat ground behind the market square. Hard midday sun in late June, eye-level camera: a wedding party spilling down the entrance steps with confetti still in the air, the photographer walking backwards across the gravel, two pensioners on the next bench arguing over a folded newspaper, a toddler running at the pigeons. The set lies on the slatted park bench in the middle distance to the right, unattended, and nobody in the frame so much as glances at it.
cardio class — the coiled black string set photographed at the Church of St Matthias in Andrychów, Poland, a white-rendered Baroque parish church with one square tower and a bulbous cupola standing above the old town streets. Cold blue first light on a January morning, camera down at ground level looking up the stair, frost furring the paving: the bell going for early Mass, a dozen worshippers in heavy coats climbing the steps, a woman knocking snow off an umbrella against the wall, breath showing, an altar server running late up the side path with his cassock bunched in one hand. The set rests close in the near foreground on a worn stone step, nobody touching it.
cardio class — a wide elevated view from Groń Jana Pawła II above Andrychów, Poland, the grassy Beskid Mały ridge summit with its small chapel and cross, the Andrychów basin far below under a floor of cloud filling the valleys. Late September golden hour, camera high and looking down the slope: a strung-out line of hikers in bright jackets grinding up the last of the path, a group unpacking sandwiches against the chapel wall, one of them holding a phone up at the light on the opposite ridge, two dogs off the lead crossing the grass. The string set sits small on a flat rock in the near foreground, the mountain owning the frame.
cardio class — the string set photographed close and shallow-focused on a trader's timber counter in the market square of Andrychów, Poland, the irregular Galician rynek behind it ringed by modest two-storey townhouses with their awnings still out. Wet November dusk, streetlamps just lit and running orange down the cobbles: the last stallholders swinging crates of apples into a van, a man in an oilskin folding a trestle one-handed, two teenagers sharing chips under a shared umbrella, rain coming in sideways off the Beskids. The set lies beside a set of brass scales on the scrubbed counter, ignored by everyone packing up around it.
cardio class — the coiled black co-polyester set composed together with the flag of Poland, the plain white-over-red horizontal bicolour filling the frame behind it and caught mid-snap in a hard wind so the fold runs diagonally across the join of the two bands, bright overcast daylight raking across the coil, no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set

Andrychów, Poland  ·  Strings > 16g

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set

This is the stout, unexcitable one: 1.30 mm of glassy co-polyester that rebounds rather than digs in, one set per frame, no surprises on the invoice. A walk round Andrychów is expected ahead of sign-off — four stops, no charge, and it notes in passing that the park benches are free as well.

↓   Tour Andrychów, Poland

Four stops before the checkout

Andrychów, Poland
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cardio class — the packeted string set photographed in the municipal park at the Bobrowski Palace in Andrychów, Poland: a long two-storey horseshoe-plan manor in pale render with a shallow tiled roof and a columned centre, mature limes around it on flat ground behind the market square. Hard midday sun in late June, eye-level camera: a wedding party spilling down the entrance steps with confetti still in the air, the photographer walking backwards across the gravel, two pensioners on the next bench arguing over a folded newspaper, a toddler running at the pigeons. The set lies on the slatted park bench in the middle distance to the right, unattended, and nobody in the frame so much as glances at it.
Stop one

Bobrowski Palace (Pałac Bobrowskich, the Andrychów Castle)

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set: Come closer. So the core of this is a 17th-century brick manor, most probably raised by Marian Przyłęcki, who owned the Wieprz estate — and note what he did: he moved his seat from Wieprz to Andrychów. Just packed up and left. People talk. And it was defensive, ringed by three ponds and a moat, which is a lot of water for a man with no enemies, isn't it. The pond on the market-square side got filled in in 1875. Then the Bobrowskis take over the estate and add the two wings, hence the horseshoe. Andrychów is first recorded 1354; town rights came in 1768 via Stanisław Ankwicz, chamberlain to King Stanisław August. Connections.

02
cardio class — the coiled black string set photographed at the Church of St Matthias in Andrychów, Poland, a white-rendered Baroque parish church with one square tower and a bulbous cupola standing above the old town streets. Cold blue first light on a January morning, camera down at ground level looking up the stair, frost furring the paving: the bell going for early Mass, a dozen worshippers in heavy coats climbing the steps, a woman knocking snow off an umbrella against the wall, breath showing, an altar server running late up the side path with his cassock bunched in one hand. The set rests close in the near foreground on a worn stone step, nobody touching it.
Stop two

Church of St Matthew the Apostle (Kościół św. Macieja)

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set: Now THIS one has a story. Present church built 1721 on the site of an earlier masonry chapel from 1639, consecrated 21 September 1721 by Jan Tarło — Bishop of Kiev, also canon and archdeacon of Kraków, so a man with several hats and, one assumes, several opinions. And who paid? Salomea Czerna, then owner of the estate, covered the building work AND the consecration. Both. A woman quietly funding the entire thing while a bishop cut the ribbon. The Rosary chapel went on before 1723, the west tower mid-century, and the onion dome you see is from a rebuild of 1924 to 1929. Nearly identical to the church at Wieprz, incidentally. People noticed.

03
cardio class — a wide elevated view from Groń Jana Pawła II above Andrychów, Poland, the grassy Beskid Mały ridge summit with its small chapel and cross, the Andrychów basin far below under a floor of cloud filling the valleys. Late September golden hour, camera high and looking down the slope: a strung-out line of hikers in bright jackets grinding up the last of the path, a group unpacking sandwiches against the chapel wall, one of them holding a phone up at the light on the opposite ridge, two dogs off the lead crossing the grass. The string set sits small on a flat rock in the near foreground, the mountain owning the frame.
Stop three

The Rynek (Andrychów market square)

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set: The square. Where everything gets discussed. Town rights arrived in 1768 and the whole place still wears the Galician face it took on under Austrian rule, when Andrychów made its name in linen weaving and later textiles. Look at the shape of it — it isn't quite a rectangle, and it never was; that irregular outline is the original market layout showing through, and so is the wooden arcaded house still standing on one side. That house is the last one keeping its mouth shut about what this square looked like before industry arrived. Everything else here has been redone at least once and, frankly, doesn't like to talk about it.

04
cardio class — the string set photographed close and shallow-focused on a trader's timber counter in the market square of Andrychów, Poland, the irregular Galician rynek behind it ringed by modest two-storey townhouses with their awnings still out. Wet November dusk, streetlamps just lit and running orange down the cobbles: the last stallholders swinging crates of apples into a van, a man in an oilskin folding a trestle one-handed, two teenagers sharing chips under a shared umbrella, rain coming in sideways off the Beskids. The set lies beside a set of brass scales on the scrubbed counter, ignored by everyone packing up around it.
Stop four

Pańska Góra

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set: Four hundred and thirty-two metres, and the name is the giveaway: Pańska Góra, the lords' hill. It belonged to the lords of Andrychów, who — of course — planted fruit orchards all over it. From the 1930s the town got hold of it and did what towns do: swimming pool, sports stadium, courts, walking paths, a toboggan run, a ski jump. Everything. And the lattice tower on top, thirty-two metres with the platform at twenty-seven — that only opened on 4 November 2025. Brand new. Barely broken in. Go up, and you can see the whole town from a hill it used to be forbidden to enjoy.

The Andrychów, Poland track

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

<p>Explosive Speed 16 is Dunlop's co-polyester monofilament in its thickest, most conservative gauge — 16 gauge, 1.30 mm, sold as a single 40 ft / 12 m set, which is one racquet.

The surface is smooth rather than shaped or textured, and that is the entire design argument: a smooth poly slides across itself under load and snaps back cleanly, so the spin comes from snapback rather than from edges digging in, and the launch off a flat drive is unusually predictable.

Dunlop sell it in black, blue and yellow.</p><p>Andrychów has been arguing about thread for three and a half centuries, which makes it the right town in which to explain a string. It first appears in the record as a weaving centre in 1674.

After the place was wrecked in 1707 its owners brought in weavers from Silesia, Belgium and Saxony, and Andrychów linen went on to travel a great deal further than most of the people who made it. The Czeczowiczka brothers put up the First Galician Mechanical Weaving Mill here in 1908 and stamped their cloth ABC; the works are still running today as Andropol.

This is a town that knows exactly what a fibre does when you pull on it.</p><p>Against the 17 gauge, the 16 plays firmer and more controlled. Those five extra hundredths of a millimetre buy durability and hand back a little power — the trade every string in the world makes and almost none of them print on the packet.

Dunlop aim it squarely at big hitters who want their heaviest ball landing inside the line, and if you play three times a week and hate the dead, boardy feeling of a stringbed that has given up in week two, this is the gauge to be in.</p><p>You will get use out of it everywhere from a windy afternoon under the Beskid Mały ridge to an indoor hall in Kraków, sixty kilometres up the road — and by the way, it suits a town that takes its beekeeping seriously enough to hold an annual festival about it.

String in the morning, walk up to Groń Jana Pawła II, come back down for honey and smoked cheese off a stall in the rynek.</p><p>Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set</p><p>Come join the Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Set for a tour of Andrychów.</p><p>
• The Bobrowski Palace — a seventeenth-century fortified manor that the Bobrowski counts extended into a horseshoe, once ringed by a moat and three ponds, now standing in the town's public park.<br />
• The Church of St Matthias — the Baroque parish church consecrated in 1721, still the loudest thing in the old town at seven in the morning.<br />
• The Andrychów market square — an irregular Galician rynek of modest nineteenth and twentieth-century townhouses, chartered in 1767 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski.<br />
• Groń Jana Pawła II — the ridge summit above the town in the Beskid Mały, named for the pope who grew up fifteen kilometres away in Wadowice.

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