Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set

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Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set

This bright green length of rigging runs forty feet to a racquet, quick and lively on the swing, with a softer jolt and no slack when the watch goes late. She won't sign crew papers dry-docked in a cart, though — ship out with her first, one run round Coronel, island to battle-swept gulf. Then haul away and buy.

↓   Tour Coronel, Chile

Four stops before the checkout

Coronel, Chile
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cardio tennis clinics 33317 — Isla Santa María in Coronel, Long low island in the Gulf of Arauco, 11.5 km north to south, with sheer cliffs about 70 metres high along its western side and a flat, green, sheltered eastern shore where two small fishing settlements sit above shingle landings
Stop one

Isla Santa María

Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set: Thirty-five square kilometres, eleven and a half from north to south, cliffs of about seventy metres down the western side, flat green sheltered shore on the east, two settlements — Puerto Sur, Puerto Norte — and around 2,200 people living by artisanal fishing and shellfish gathering. Administratively it is Coronel's, with a municipal delegate to prove it. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, an anchorage for corsairs, whalers and traders. An 1805 slave-ship incident in these waters gave Herman Melville the material for his novella Benito Cereno. And in the magnitude 8.8 earthquake of 2010 the entire island rose 1.8 metres. The whole lot. Permanently.

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cardio tennis clinics 33317 — Playa Blanca in Coronel, Wide beach of pale fine sand curving along the Gulf of Arauco at the southern edge of Coronel where it meets Lota, backed by dark pine plantations, with a low stone monolith standing alone on the sand
Stop two

Playa Blanca

Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set: Pale sand, fine, wide, curving along the Gulf of Arauco at the southern edge of town where Coronel runs into Lota — that is the boundary, right here, no argument, no bidding. Dark pine plantations behind you, and one low stone monolith standing alone on the sand. What is it worth? Everything: it marks the exact geographic centre of continental Chile, and from this spot the country runs almost exactly as far north as it does south. Offshore in clear weather, Isla Santa María. Beneath that same bay, the coal seams of Coronel and Lota ran out under the sea floor. Dead centre.

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cardio tennis clinics 33317 — The Puchoco Schwager coal-mining sector in Coronel, Terraces of identical company-built miners' houses stepped up a bare coastal hillside at the northern end of Coronel, with the brick and corrugated-iron pithead buildings of the old Schwager colliery standing below them on the shore
Stop three

The Puchoco Schwager coal-mining sector

Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set: Coronel exists because of coal. Eighteen forty-nine, Jorge Rojas Miranda leases these lands, seams are found, a company town assembles itself around them, and the Schwager works at Puchoco become one of the two great collieries of the Gulf of Arauco alongside Lota, its shafts driven out under the sea bed. Under the sea bed. Then the 1990s: the industry closes, and the city rebuilds itself around its port and industrial parks. What is left standing on this hillside from the coal era — the terraced company housing, the pithead structures, a mining museum. Not sold. Kept.

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cardio tennis clinics 33317 — The Gulf of Arauco off Coronel in Coronel, Wide open bay of grey Pacific water seen from Coronel's shoreline, with the low forested ridges of the Nahuelbuta coastal range closing the southern horizon and Isla Santa María lying flat on the water to the west
Stop four

The Gulf of Arauco off Coronel

Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set: On 1 November 1914 the first major naval battle of the First World War was fought in these waters. A German East Asia Squadron under Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee met a smaller British force off Coronel and defeated it, sinking two British cruisers. It was the Royal Navy's first general fleet engagement since Trafalgar in 1805, and its first defeat at sea in over a century. The fighting happened close enough inshore that people standing on the Coronel coast could see the gun flashes and the explosions. There is nothing here to value and no bidding to take. We stand, and we look at the water.

The Coronel, Chile track

Solinco Heaven String Hyper-G Soft 17g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Way, hey, and up she rises! Gather round the capstan, crew, for a tale of green and gauge. The Solinco Hyper-G Soft 17g set — heave! — is a single 40-foot length, 12.2 meters, one racquet's rigging of the most famous co-polyester on the seven tours.

Her color is Hyper Green, bright as a starboard lantern, and her profile is square, four honest sides — so when she bites the ball, the ball STAYS bit, and the spin comes off like spray off the bow. Way, hey!

Now the Soft in her name, that's no weakness, lads — that's seamanship. The softened formula eases the jolt on your arm while keeping the bite and the control, so you can haul away set after set without your elbow filing a grievance. At 1.20mm she's a thin line, quick and full of feel, and her tension holds through the long watch — no sag, no slack, no mutiny.

A string you can trust in weather. Way, hey, and up she rises!

Her home port is Coronel, Chile, on the Gulf of Arauco — a coal port where the seams ran out beneath the sea floor, and where in 1914 the first great naval battle of the World War rolled through these very swells. You'll swing her everywhere from a morning hit near Playa Blanca to club night up the hill — and after, do as Coronel does: fresh shellfish off the boats, and maybe a verse or two. All together now!

And she's also perfect for a morning down at Playa Blanca, lads, where a monolith marks the exact geographic centre of continental Chile — as far north as south from that very sand. Way, hey!

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