Ohhh, you did NOT hear this from me, but come here, come here. The Dunlop NT Max Plus 16g? The string set? Everyone is talking about it. Well — I'm talking about it, which is the same thing. Here's the scoop: it's a polyester string with a special coating, and the coating — this is the juicy part — prevents tension loss. Keeps the whole string bed even for ages.
Which means while everybody ELSE's strings are quietly going soft and saggy by midseason — I won't name names, but you know exactly whose racquet I mean — this one stays crisp and consistent, restring after restring. Sixteen gauge, so it's durable too. One set, 40 feet, and honestly? The best-kept secret at the club, until I got hold of it.
And its hometown! Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina — a town after my own heart, because everything here has a story and I know all of them. The whole town started on an island in the Sana River — Stari Grad, they call it — where the Ottomans built a fortress in 1747. Fortress is gone, but the old streets remember, and so do I.
Then there was the great fire of 1882 — devastating, tragic, and the single biggest renovation opportunity in town history. They rebuilt everything in masonry: the Church of the Holy Trinity, consecrated in 1891, gorgeous. The Radetić Tower too — one of the only private buildings from that era still standing in its original form, and it sits there EMPTY. Empty!
Don't get me started.
The Museum of Kozara keeps five thousand books' worth of the valley's secrets, which frankly makes it my only real competition. Come on, walk with me — the tour is where the good stuff comes out.
And do NOT tell anyone I said this, but it plays everywhere from the courts near Stari Grad to whatever they have laid down out toward the Kozara road, and it holds its tension at both — which is more than I can say for certain people. It is also perfect for a long slow afternoon in the Museum of Kozara, five thousand volumes deep, and not one of them names my sources.
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