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beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet and the flag of Iceland combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The blue field with its white-bordered red Nordic cross fills the frame in slow-moving folds, lit cool from one side, and the extended-length racquet is composed into the arrangement so the line of the frame and the vertical arm of the cross read as one continuous element, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Víkurkirkja in Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. A small white timber church with a red roof and slim red-capped tower alone on a green hill above the village, black beach and sea stacks far below. Still golden light late on a summer evening, the sun low and not setting: a christening party coming out through the door and standing about on the grass, an older woman arranging lupins by the wall, two cyclists resting bikes against the fence, arctic terns crossing overhead. The racquet lies on the low wall beside the gate, untouched.
beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Reynisfjara in Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. Close view of the wall of grey hexagonal basalt columns behind the black sand, the mouth of the Hálsanefshellir cave dark at their foot. Hard flat light under heavy cloud on a raw spring afternoon, spray in the air, sand wet and gleaming: a ranger waving a group back from the water's edge as a wave runs far up the beach, three people scrambling on the low columns, a child's hat blowing away. The racquet rests on a dry ledge of basalt, ignored by everyone.
beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed with Reynisdrangar off Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. Wide view from the black beach of three ragged basalt sea stacks standing straight out of the water offshore, seabirds working around their tops. Deep blue hour on a clear winter night, snow lying on the black sand in patches, a faint green auroral band low over the water: two photographers with tripods set in the sand, a small group from the village standing watching, head torches red. The racquet is set on a driftwood spar in the foreground and nobody goes near it.
beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Dyrhólaey near Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. The flat-topped promontory seen from the beach with the huge natural sea arch punched through the rock at water level and the small white lighthouse on the plateau above. Bright breezy morning in early July, high cloud and hard blue sea, grass flattening in the wind: puffins landing on the cliff edge with beaks full of sand eels, a warden roping off the nesting ground, a family lying flat on the turf watching the birds. The racquet lies in the marram grass at the cliff path, nobody handling it.
beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet and the flag of Iceland combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The blue field with its white-bordered red Nordic cross fills the frame in slow-moving folds, lit cool from one side, and the extended-length racquet is composed into the arrangement so the line of the frame and the vertical arm of the cross read as one continuous element, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet

Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland  ·  Racquets > Adult

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet

This is an extended-length power frame, tempered against its own leverage: 27.5 inches, 100 in², 305 grams, with a rib of foam and carbon inside the hoop so the extra reach never turns vague. No rush on the purchase. It intends to walk Vík with you first, and it will wait however long that takes.

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Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland
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beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Víkurkirkja in Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. A small white timber church with a red roof and slim red-capped tower alone on a green hill above the village, black beach and sea stacks far below. Still golden light late on a summer evening, the sun low and not setting: a christening party coming out through the door and standing about on the grass, an older woman arranging lupins by the wall, two cyclists resting bikes against the fence, arctic terns crossing overhead. The racquet lies on the low wall beside the gate, untouched.
Stop one

Víkurkirkja

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet: AND THERE IT IS ON THE HILL. Designed by Guðjón Samúelsson, the most important Icelandic architect of the period, built between 1931 and 1934 to replace a turf church the growing congregation had outgrown, consecrated in 1934 by Bishop Jón Helgason. But look WHERE they put it. Vík lies directly in the path of the catastrophic glacial floods a Katla eruption would send down off Mýrdalsjökull, and this church is the designated place of refuge, believed to be the one building that would stand above the water. THEY TOOK THE HIGH GROUND. It is always, always positioning.

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beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Reynisfjara in Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. Close view of the wall of grey hexagonal basalt columns behind the black sand, the mouth of the Hálsanefshellir cave dark at their foot. Hard flat light under heavy cloud on a raw spring afternoon, spray in the air, sand wet and gleaming: a ranger waving a group back from the water's edge as a wave runs far up the beach, three people scrambling on the low columns, a child's hat blowing away. The racquet rests on a dry ledge of basalt, ignored by everyone.
Stop two

Reynisdrangar

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet: OH, THEY ARE STILL UP. Reynisdrangar are the eroded remnants of a formerly larger basalt headland that the sea has been cutting back for age after age, and the sea is winning, but slowly. In Icelandic folklore they are trolls caught dragging a ship to shore when the sun rose and turned them to stone. BEATEN BY THE CLOCK. ARE YOU KIDDING ME. You can see them from the village, from the church above it, and from the beach to the west, and they are the single feature by which Vík is recognised anywhere on earth.

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beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed with Reynisdrangar off Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. Wide view from the black beach of three ragged basalt sea stacks standing straight out of the water offshore, seabirds working around their tops. Deep blue hour on a clear winter night, snow lying on the black sand in patches, a faint green auroral band low over the water: two photographers with tripods set in the sand, a small group from the village standing watching, head torches red. The racquet is set on a driftwood spar in the foreground and nobody goes near it.
Stop three

Reynisfjara

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet: Iceland's best-known black sand beach, and the sand is black because it is ground volcanic rock, straight from the source. Islands Magazine named it among the ten most beautiful beaches on earth in 1991. Now check the field: columnar basalt, the sea cave, the offshore stacks and the puffin cliff of Reynisfjall, ALL inside one short stretch of shore, which is genuinely unusual. But hear me. This beach is dangerous. Sneaker waves run far up the sand without any warning at all, and locals take the warnings about the water's edge seriously. Stay off the line. Stay off it.

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beginner cardiovascular tennis clinic — the Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet photographed at Dyrhólaey near Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. The flat-topped promontory seen from the beach with the huge natural sea arch punched through the rock at water level and the small white lighthouse on the plateau above. Bright breezy morning in early July, high cloud and hard blue sea, grass flattening in the wind: puffins landing on the cliff edge with beaks full of sand eels, a warden roping off the nesting ground, a family lying flat on the turf watching the birds. The racquet lies in the marram grass at the cliff path, nobody handling it.
Stop four

Brydebúð

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet: The Danish merchant Johan P. T. Bryde opened a store here in 1890 and called it Brydebúð, the timber building itself shipped over from the Westman Islands and put up on this street. And it became the entire economy, because here is the thing, folks, Vík has NO HARBOUR. None. Every single item the district bought or sold passed through that one trading house. The whole regional economy running through one point, and it held. It survives on the main street as the oldest building in the village, now a museum and information centre.

The Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland track

Diadem Nova FS 100 Plus Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Vík í Mýrdal is a village of a few hundred people living under a glacier-capped volcano, and everything there is built a half-step further than it strictly needs to be, because the margin is the point. That is this racquet.

The Nova FS 100 Plus is the extended-length version of the Nova: 27.5 inches instead of 27, a 100 square inch head, 305 grams unstrung, balance at 335 millimetres — five points head-light — a 23.5 millimetre tapered beam and a 69 RA stiffness rating. Half an inch does not sound like anything until you serve with it.

The string bed is 16 x 19, with the mains skipped at 7T, 9T, 7H and 9H, which opens the upper hoop and is where the spin comes from.

The frame itself is built around what Diadem calls the Flex Stabilization System — a patent-pending rib structure inside the frame combining high-density foam and HMT carbon, placed to keep a light, long, powerful frame from turning vague on off-centre balls. That is the whole design brief: extra reach and extra power without the wobble that usually comes with them.

Grips run L1 to L4.

Who it is for is unusually clear. If you win points by pushing people back off the baseline and finishing at the net, the extra half-inch adds leverage on serve and a genuinely longer reach on the volley. If you play flat and close to the lines, the 69 RA and the extended length will give you more ball than you asked for.

You will get use out of this everywhere from a windy court in Vík to an indoor hall in Reykjavík in February, and by the way, it is perfectly suited to the Icelandic habit of finishing anything strenuous in hot water — this frame is comfortable enough through impact that the hot pot afterwards is a pleasure rather than a repair.

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