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cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set composed together with the national flag of the United Kingdom in a single photoreal studio image, the black coiled set laid across the Union Flag with the crossed red and white saltires and the red cross of St George running behind it under a clean directional light.
cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide view of the stone cathedral and its tall octagonal spire against a fast-moving, broken sky with hard bright sun breaking through between showers, the churchyard grass still wet. A wedding party is spilling out of the west door mid-confetti, the photographer walking backwards with one arm up, a bridesmaid holding a hat down in the wind, guests crowding the path and a bell-ringer standing in the doorway in shirtsleeves. The string set rests on a flat-topped churchyard headstone in the foreground, faintly glowing.
cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed in Lisburn Castle Gardens in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A close, low view along a gravel terrace walk to the muzzle of a captured Russian cannon on its iron carriage, clipped hedging behind it, everything soaked in the flat grey light of steady drizzle, leaves plastered to the path. Two council gardeners in waterproofs are edging a bed with a line and a half-moon iron, a man reads the memorial plaque under an umbrella, and a toddler in a red coat is being lifted off the cannon barrel by a grandparent. The string set sits on the stone plinth beside the carriage, softly luminous in the wet light.
cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Market Square in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide morning view across Market Square, the long stone market-house frontage on one side, the war memorial on the paving, low early sun throwing long shadows across the setts. Market traders are still setting up — one man snapping the legs out of a trestle, a woman stacking crates of vegetables, a van reversing with its doors open, two women in the queue at a bread stall with the shutters just going up. The string set rests on the corner of a trestle table, faintly glowing.
cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at Hilden Mill in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide dusk view of the long red-brick Victorian mill blocks and their tall chimney reflected in the River Lagan, the sky going deep orange behind the roofline and lit windows coming on along one range. On the towpath below, a rowing eight is being carried down to the water by its crew, a man cycles home with a bag over his shoulder, two people walk a dog past the mill gates, and a heron lifts off the far bank. The string set rests on a cast-iron mooring bollard on the towpath, glowing faintly against the brick.
cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set composed together with the national flag of the United Kingdom in a single photoreal studio image, the black coiled set laid across the Union Flag with the crossed red and white saltires and the red cross of St George running behind it under a clean directional light.

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set

Lisburn, United Kingdom  ·  Strings > 17g

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set

This four-sided 1.25 mm co-polyester comes filleted to four clean faces and four keen edges — control at the top of the scale, spin with it, and power held back on purpose. It does not leave the slab until you have paced out Lisburn: cathedral, market house, terraces, park, and the provenance of every last item.

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Four stops before the checkout

Lisburn, United Kingdom
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cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide view of the stone cathedral and its tall octagonal spire against a fast-moving, broken sky with hard bright sun breaking through between showers, the churchyard grass still wet. A wedding party is spilling out of the west door mid-confetti, the photographer walking backwards with one arm up, a bridesmaid holding a hat down in the wind, guests crowding the path and a bell-ringer standing in the doorway in shirtsleeves. The string set rests on a flat-topped churchyard headstone in the foreground, faintly glowing.
Stop one

Lisburn Cathedral

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set: Let me ask you something. What does it take to be taken seriously before you are ready? A church went up on this site in 1623 for a brand-new plantation settlement then called Lisnagarvey — brand new, nobody had heard of it — and by royal charter of Charles II in 1662 it was raised to cathedral status for the diocese of Down and Connor. A town that young. Given that. Then the great fire of 1707 devastated Lisburn and they renewed the building anyway. And in 1804 they added an octagonal spire, unique in Northern Ireland. Hear that? They did not just rebuild. They built the one nobody else had. It still overlooks Market Square.

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cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed in Lisburn Castle Gardens in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A close, low view along a gravel terrace walk to the muzzle of a captured Russian cannon on its iron carriage, clipped hedging behind it, everything soaked in the flat grey light of steady drizzle, leaves plastered to the path. Two council gardeners in waterproofs are edging a bed with a line and a half-moon iron, a man reads the memorial plaque under an umbrella, and a toddler in a red coat is being lifted off the cannon barrel by a grandparent. The string set sits on the stone plinth beside the carriage, softly luminous in the wet light.
Stop two

Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum (Market House)

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set: Everything on this square burned in 1707. Everything — except this. The Market House, mid-seventeenth century, the only building left standing when the smoke cleared. Now, who survives a fire like that? Something built right. Under these red sandstone arches linen cloth was bought and sold as Lisburn grew into a capital of the Irish linen industry, and that industry was propelled by Huguenot refugees — people who arrived from the 1690s with nothing, Louis Crommelin among them — and turned a town's fortune around. Refugees did that. The upper floor held the assembly rooms. Today it is the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, working looms and all. What would you rebuild first?

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cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Market Square in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide morning view across Market Square, the long stone market-house frontage on one side, the war memorial on the paving, low early sun throwing long shadows across the setts. Market traders are still setting up — one man snapping the legs out of a trestle, a woman stacking crates of vegetables, a van reversing with its doors open, two women in the queue at a bread stall with the shutters just going up. The string set rests on the corner of a trestle table, faintly glowing.
Stop three

Castle Gardens

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set: Here is a hard one. What do you do when the thing you built is gone and it is not coming back? Lisburn Castle stood here, the seventeenth-century manor house of the Conway family who laid out this town in the 1620s. The accidental fire of 1707 took it and it was never rebuilt. Never. But look what stayed: sections of wall, the terraced gardens, a gazebo, a sandstone gateway of 1677 — rare survivals of seventeenth-century garden architecture in Ireland. The grounds later opened as a public park, with a Victorian bandstand, the city's war memorial, and one of Sir Richard Wallace's ornamental drinking fountains. You do not always get the house back. You get the garden.

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cardio tennis class Imperial Point — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set photographed at Hilden Mill in Lisburn, United Kingdom. A wide dusk view of the long red-brick Victorian mill blocks and their tall chimney reflected in the River Lagan, the sky going deep orange behind the roofline and lit windows coming on along one range. On the towpath below, a rowing eight is being carried down to the water by its crew, a man cycles home with a bag over his shoulder, two people walk a dog past the mill gates, and a heron lifts off the far bank. The string set rests on a cast-iron mooring bollard on the towpath, glowing faintly against the brick.
Stop four

Wallace Park

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set: I want you to think about generosity for a moment. In 1884 Sir Richard Wallace — art collector, philanthropist, and heir to the vast Hertford estate that included this town — gave this park to the people of Lisburn in perpetuity. In perpetuity. Forever. They called it the People's Park and then renamed it for him, the same man whose ornate cast-iron drinking fountains, of the type he famously presented to Paris, still stand here and elsewhere in Lisburn. Tree-lined promenades came, a pond, the cricket ground long used by Lisburn Cricket Club. So: what are you going to leave behind that outlives you? Sit with that one.

The Lisburn, United Kingdom track

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 17g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Seventeen gauge is where the 4S makes most sense to most people. This is a co-polyester monofilament with a square profile — four flat faces, four sharp edges — drawn to 1.25mm, thin enough that the edges dig properly into the ball and thick enough that you are not restringing on Tuesday.

Tennis Warehouse's own playtest panel scored this gauge 90 for control and 87 for spin and a deliberate 40 for power, which is the honest summary: it is a tool for people who already generate their own pace and want somewhere to put it. Lisburn, of all places, will not need that explained. This is a town whose entire industrial record is about doing one thread properly.

The feel is firm and very direct, with the harshness taken down rather than out — that is ThermoCore, a multi-stage heat treatment of the core that softens the structure and knocks back impact shock.

Tecnifibre's published comparisons put the 4S at around 20% more power than Pro Red Code and about 15% more durable than the original Black Code, with the same tension maintenance as Razor Code; testers reported roughly three weeks of consistent playability before it went off, which is well above average for a polyester.

This is the single set — 40 ft / 12.2 m of it, black, one frame. Filed correctly: gauge 17, 1.25mm, square profile, co-polyester. Lisburn would want it filed correctly.

The linen trade here ran on exactly that kind of pedantry after Louis Crommelin arrived among the Huguenot refugees from 1698 and was made overseer of the royal linen manufacture of Ireland — a job title that is essentially quality control with a salary.

You'll get use out of this everywhere from the courts along the Lagan towpath to a windy evening in the parkland at Wallace Park. And by the way, it is also perfect for the week of the Wednesday market in Market Square, which has been held there since 1628 and has outlasted a fire that took most of the town in 1707 — the fire that gave Lisburn its motto, Ex igne resurgam, out of the fire I shall arise.

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