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cardio tennis clinic — the Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Kazakhstan
cardio tennis clinic — The Bogatyr open-pit coal mine in Ekibastuz, A colossal terraced pit cut in concentric benches into flat treeless steppe outside Ekibastuz, with excavators and long conveyor lines working the black coal face against pale grey overburden
cardio tennis clinic — The chimney of Ekibastuz GRES-2 in Ekibastuz, An immensely tall, slender reinforced-concrete chimney tapering to a needle, rising alone above a flat power station complex on open steppe — visible from tens of kilometres away and by a wide margin the tallest object in the landscape
cardio tennis clinic — Ekibastuz GRES-1 in Ekibastuz, A vast coal-fired power station with a long low turbine hall, twin tall striped chimneys and coal conveyors feeding it from the pits, linked to lines of exceptionally large steel transmission pylons marching away across the steppe
cardio tennis clinic — The Iversko-Seraphimovsky Cathedral in Ekibastuz, A modern masonry Russian Orthodox church with cupolas and crosses and an attached bell tower, standing among rows of Soviet-era apartment blocks in the town
cardio tennis clinic — the Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Kazakhstan

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set

Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan  ·  Strings > 17g

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set

This closely woven little control poly survived every question I put to it: predictable response under a committed swing, genuine added rotation, a tour professional stringing it in matches that count. Verdict, claim upheld. It submits one last exhibit before you buy — Ekibastuz, whose Guinness-certified superlatives you are invited to check in person.

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Four stops before the checkout

Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan
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cardio tennis clinic — The Bogatyr open-pit coal mine in Ekibastuz, A colossal terraced pit cut in concentric benches into flat treeless steppe outside Ekibastuz, with excavators and long conveyor lines working the black coal face against pale grey overburden
Stop one

The Bogatyr open-pit coal mine

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set: I chase weather for a living and I have never met a hole in the ground that generates its own. Bogatyr works one of the thickest coal seams anywhere on Earth and was designed to bring up 50 million tonnes a year. It entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1985 for passing a billion tonnes over its working life, and it is routinely called the largest open-pit coal mine in the world. Coal was found here in 1866, commercial mining began in 1899, and next door the Vostochny pit runs a conveyor lifting coal to the surface without pause. Stand at the rim. Feel the draught come up.

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cardio tennis clinic — The chimney of Ekibastuz GRES-2 in Ekibastuz, An immensely tall, slender reinforced-concrete chimney tapering to a needle, rising alone above a flat power station complex on open steppe — visible from tens of kilometres away and by a wide margin the tallest object in the landscape
Stop two

The chimney of Ekibastuz GRES-2

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set: Four hundred and nineteen point seven metres of chimney — the tallest on the planet, and Guinness agrees — and it exists for one glorious reason: Ekibastuz coal is thick with mineral content, and the ash and sulphur had to be flung high enough to spare everything downwind. Weather engineering. Deliberate weather engineering. I could weep. GRES-2's first generating unit came on line in December 1990, the second on 22 December 1993, and then the story simply stops; only two of the planned units were ever finished. A world-record stack venting a station running far below what it was built for.

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cardio tennis clinic — Ekibastuz GRES-1 in Ekibastuz, A vast coal-fired power station with a long low turbine hall, twin tall striped chimneys and coal conveyors feeding it from the pits, linked to lines of exceptionally large steel transmission pylons marching away across the steppe
Stop three

Ekibastuz GRES-1

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set: GRES-1 launched in March 1980 and reached its full 4,000 megawatts by 1984 — the largest power station in Kazakhstan and one of the largest coal-fired stations built anywhere. The logic of this complex is magnificent and faintly unhinged: do not haul the coal anywhere, burn it where you dig it and push the electricity out instead. The Ekibastuz–Kokshetau line running west from here was engineered for 1,150 kilovolts, the highest transmission voltage ever put into commercial operation. A line that hums like an approaching front. I asked whether I could stand under it in a thunderstorm. They said no.

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cardio tennis clinic — The Iversko-Seraphimovsky Cathedral in Ekibastuz, A modern masonry Russian Orthodox church with cupolas and crosses and an attached bell tower, standing among rows of Soviet-era apartment blocks in the town
Stop four

The Iversko-Seraphimovsky Cathedral

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set: Built between 1992 and 2000 and consecrated on 21 September 2000, dedicated to Saint Seraphim of Sarov and to the Iveron icon of the Mother of God. It went up in the first decade after Kazakhstan's independence, for a town whose population had been assembled from clear across the Soviet Union to work the coalfield. A mosque was formally opened here in September 1998, with Kazakhstan's Grand Mufti attending, and the local history museum, founded in 1987, opened to the public in 1997. The steppe winter arrives here like an event. This is where the town goes when the sky turns on it.

The Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan track

Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Claims first, verdicts second. The Dunlop Explosive Tour 17g Tennis String Set advertises 'surgical control.' Suspicious phrasing — surgeons train for a decade; this is 12 metres of silver co-polyester monofilament at gauge 17, which is 1.25mm. So I checked the record. Monofilament co-poly: confirmed. Predictable response on full swings: consistently reported.

A snap-back at contact that adds real ball rotation: documented. Above-average comfort for a poly, players getting months from a single stringing, and an actual ATP professional — Miomir Kecmanovic — stringing it in matches that count. Not proof, but admissible. Verdict: claim upheld. I am as surprised as you are.

One caveat I verified myself: at 1.25mm this is the thinner gauge of the line — a touch livelier and more spin-friendly than the 16, at some cost to lifespan. That trade-off is well documented across the literature. I accept it. String it, interrogate it on your own forehand, and report back.

Now, Ekibastuz — a steppe town in Kazakhstan that makes claims so large I packed a tape measure. The chimney at the GRES-2 power station: allegedly the tallest in the world at 419.7 metres. I checked. Guinness agrees.

The Bogatyr mine: allegedly over a billion tonnes of coal extracted, certified — again — by Guinness in 1985, and routinely called the largest open-pit coal mine anywhere. Also holds up. A town of coal and superlatives where every plaque survives cross-examination.

You will string it everywhere from a windy steppe court in the shadow of that chimney to an indoor hall in Pavlodar, and it is also perfect for an Ekibastuz winter, when every outdoor claim goes unverifiable until April. Honestly? It is a pleasure to be out-argued twice before lunch.

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