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beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet and the flag of Turkey combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The red field with its white crescent and five-pointed star set slightly left of centre fills the frame in deep side-lit folds, and the racquet is composed into the arrangement so that the curve of the frame's hoop and the inner curve of the crescent read as one continuous line, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Tomb of Seyh Edebali in Bilecik, Turkey. A small domed stone tomb in a walled garden terrace above the town, cypresses around it, a second smaller tomb alongside and the red roofs of Bilecik dropping away below the parapet. Just after sunrise in early autumn, the light almost flat and gold across the paving: an old man dragging a hose over to the roses, two women slipping off their shoes at the threshold, a caretaker sweeping leaves into a pile that keeps blowing apart, pigeons lifting off the dome. The racquet leans against a worn stone step low in the near foreground, untouched by anyone.
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Orhan Gazi Mosque in Bilecik, Turkey. A small plain fourteenth-century stone mosque on the hillside, its minaret standing roughly thirty metres away on a separate outcrop of rock. Hard midday sun in high summer, shadows falling straight down and the stone bleached white: men filing out after the noon prayer and hunting along the rail for their shoes, a boy running a bicycle across the flagstones, a cat stretched flat in the only strip of shade under the wall, a woman shaking a rug over the parapet. The racquet stands propped against the low courtyard wall in the middle distance, off to the right, ignored by everyone.
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at Pelitozu Pond outside Bilecik, Turkey. A small pine-ringed reservoir seven kilometres from the centre, shot from the slope above so the whole sheet of water and its shoreline path fill the frame. Golden hour on a Sunday in late spring, long shadows off the pines and the water gone copper: pedal boats out in the middle with somebody's arms working hard, three families set up on rugs with a kettle going, a wedding party photographing itself on the jetty, a man untangling a fishing line while a dog waits. The racquet lies far off and small on the timber rail of the jetty at the left edge, nobody near it.
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at Harmankaya Canyon Nature Park in Bilecik province, Turkey. Close and intimate on the wet boardwalk deep in the gorge, one of the two waterfalls thundering out of focus behind, black wet rock and dripping green on both walls. An overcast morning during heavy autumn rain, spray hanging in the air and everything running with water: hikers in dripping ponchos edging past each other on the narrow deck, a father lifting a child over a puddle, a guide shouting something nobody can hear over the falls, leaves plastered flat to the timber. The racquet rests across the soaked handrail in mid-frame, beaded with water, touched by no one.
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet and the flag of Turkey combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The red field with its white crescent and five-pointed star set slightly left of centre fills the frame in deep side-lit folds, and the racquet is composed into the arrangement so that the curve of the frame's hoop and the inner curve of the crescent read as one continuous line, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet

Bilecik, Turkey  ·  Racquets > Adult

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet

This one is garnet, grown facet by facet. A well-made decision repeated a few thousand times: micro-bearings running loose in buried chambers, 315 g, 98 in², 16 x 19, a genuinely soft 60 RA. Now put the wallet DOWN. It cannot be understood until you have stood above Bilecik at first light.

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Four stops before the checkout

Bilecik, Turkey
01
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Tomb of Seyh Edebali in Bilecik, Turkey. A small domed stone tomb in a walled garden terrace above the town, cypresses around it, a second smaller tomb alongside and the red roofs of Bilecik dropping away below the parapet. Just after sunrise in early autumn, the light almost flat and gold across the paving: an old man dragging a hose over to the roses, two women slipping off their shoes at the threshold, a caretaker sweeping leaves into a pile that keeps blowing apart, pigeons lifting off the dome. The racquet leans against a worn stone step low in the near foreground, untouched by anyone.
Stop one

Şeyh Edebali Türbesi (Tomb of Sheikh Edebali)

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet: Three deaths in five months, and I have checked the sequence twice. Edebali died here in 1326 and was buried in the zikir room of his own lodge; his daughter died a month later; Osman four months after that. He was born in Karaman, became a dervish sheikh and established a zaviye at Bilecik, and Ottoman tradition makes him the spiritual mentor and father-in-law of Osman Gazi, founder of the dynasty, through his daughter Rabia Bala Hatun (Rabia Bala, both elements, and the sources vary, which I do not approve of). He is recorded as the first Ottoman qadi and mufti, two offices in one man, and is credited with interpreting Osman's dream of a tree growing from his body. The complex holds a mescid as well.

02
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Orhan Gazi Mosque in Bilecik, Turkey. A small plain fourteenth-century stone mosque on the hillside, its minaret standing roughly thirty metres away on a separate outcrop of rock. Hard midday sun in high summer, shadows falling straight down and the stone bleached white: men filing out after the noon prayer and hunting along the rail for their shoes, a boy running a bicycle across the flagstones, a cat stretched flat in the only strip of shade under the wall, a woman shaking a rug over the parapet. The racquet stands propped against the low courtyard wall in the middle distance, off to the right, ignored by everyone.
Stop two

Orhan Gazi Camii (Orhan Gazi Mosque)

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet: Roughly 17.35 by 16.50 metres, under a dome 9.50 metres across, carried on an octagonal drum and pointed corner arches. Note the decimals. Somebody measured this properly and I should like to shake their hand. Built in 732 AH, which is 1331 CE, under Orhan Bey, second ruler of the Ottoman principality, though some sources attribute it to the reign of Murad I, and I record the dispute rather than pretend to settle it. The walls alternate three courses of cut stone with three courses of brick, all the way up. Restored in 1814 under Mahmud II. The two stone minarets flanking the facade were added around 1889, and we know this because a photograph of 1882 shows them absent. Photographs. Superb witnesses.

03
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at Pelitozu Pond outside Bilecik, Turkey. A small pine-ringed reservoir seven kilometres from the centre, shot from the slope above so the whole sheet of water and its shoreline path fill the frame. Golden hour on a Sunday in late spring, long shadows off the pines and the water gone copper: pedal boats out in the middle with somebody's arms working hard, three families set up on rugs with a kettle going, a wedding party photographing itself on the jetty, a man untangling a fishing line while a dog waits. The racquet lies far off and small on the timber rail of the jetty at the left edge, nobody near it.
Stop three

Orhan Gazi İmareti (Orhan Gazi Imaret)

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet: Across the valley, facing the mosque, which is a siting decision deserving a footnote of its own. It belonged to Orhan Gazi's foundation in Old Bilecik, first half of the fourteenth century, contemporary with the adjacent mosque dated 1331. The plan is the zaviye type: tabhane side chambers flanking a central space, the rooms roofed with brick domes and vaults. Buildings of this class sheltered travelling dervishes and distributed food, which is to say they were hostel and kitchen at once (and, I would argue, an early piece of social infrastructure, though that is my note and not the record's). The side chambers and courtyard have since collapsed. Two central vaulted chambers survive, in poor condition. I record that with regret.

04
beginner cardio tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet photographed at Harmankaya Canyon Nature Park in Bilecik province, Turkey. Close and intimate on the wet boardwalk deep in the gorge, one of the two waterfalls thundering out of focus behind, black wet rock and dripping green on both walls. An overcast morning during heavy autumn rain, spray hanging in the air and everything running with water: hikers in dripping ponchos edging past each other on the narrow deck, a father lifting a child over a puddle, a guide shouting something nobody can hear over the falls, leaves plastered flat to the timber. The racquet rests across the soaked handrail in mid-frame, beaded with water, touched by no one.
Stop four

Bilecik Saat Kulesi (Bilecik Clock Tower)

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet: Four storeys, about sixteen metres (about; I should have preferred a decimal, but I shall manage), erected in 1907 during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II by Musa Kâzım Bey, the mutasarrıf of the sancak of Ertuğrul, whose administrative centre was Bilecik. It stands in the garden of the municipality building in the city centre. Restoration was carried out in 1987 under the provincial governor Adil Yazar, and I name him because somebody ought to. Now the tangent, and it is a fine one: a great many clock towers were built in Ottoman provincial towns during that reign, which makes this not an eccentricity but a policy. Public time, standardised, everywhere. I could talk about that for an hour. I have.

The Bilecik, Turkey track

Prokennex Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315g Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Bilecik is where the Ottoman state stopped being an idea. Osman I took the fortress on this hillside in 1299 and six centuries followed, which is a decent frame of mind for a racquet built around one small, well-made decision repeated a few thousand times.

The Ki Q+ Tour Pro 315 is a 98 square inch player's frame: 27 inches long, a 20.3 mm beam through head, throat and shaft, strung 16 x 19, 315 grams unstrung and 11.7 oz / 332 g strung, sitting 7 points head light.

What you are actually buying is inside the walls. ProKennex fills sealed chambers in the head and in the butt cap with loose micro-bearings, and both the swing and the impact throw that mass around, so energy that would otherwise arrive in your elbow is spent moving beads instead.

It is a mechanical answer rather than a foam one, and it is why this frame measures 60 RA — genuinely low, soft by any modern standard — while still handing back a firm, connected ball instead of a mushy one. The layup is high modulus graphite with SpiralTech carbon, and grips run 4 1/8 through 4 5/8.

The rest of the numbers, because a serious player will look them up anyway: swingweight 328, recommended tension 50 to 65 pounds, one-piece stringing with no shared holes, mains skipping 7T, 9T, 7H and 9H. A 328 swingweight behind a head-light balance is the old player's-frame trick — light to set up, heavy at contact.

The 16 x 19 pattern keeps a spin window open, which is what stops a 315 gram control racquet from punishing you every time you arrive late.

You will use it everywhere from a breezy afternoon court up by the Pelitozu pines to an indoor hall in Bursa an hour west. And by the way, it suits the way the game actually ends in Türkiye — three sets, then çay, then somebody quietly orders another round of çay and it is abruptly nine o'clock. A 60 RA frame with bearings in the handle is exactly what you want when one more set is a certainty rather than a threat.

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