Six hundred and sixty feet on one drum. Two hundred metres, roughly sixteen to twenty racquets, and if you break strings for a living this is how you stop paying by the set.

Tecnifibre Razor Code in the 17 gauge, 1.25 mm, is a co-polyester monofilament with a textured surface that bites into the ball for spin, and Tecnifibre's Thermocore process — polyurethane worked into the polyester base at varying temperatures during construction — is what keeps a firm control string from playing like a fence wire.

Tecnifibre themselves point it at heavy string breakers, the ten-hours-a-week players.

So: firm, precise, spin-friendly and stubbornly durable. It rewards a full swing and punishes a tentative one, which is a fair description of Maniitsoq too — a town on a bare rock island off west Greenland where the weather decides and you swing anyway. Cold does firm strings no favours, so string it a touch lower and let the texture do the work.

You will get use out of this reel everywhere from a wind-scoured court by the harbour to a summer evening that never quite goes dark. And by the way, this is a fishing town with rivers full of Arctic char and a fjord full of humpbacks, so budget an entire day for the boat and string the racquets in the morning.

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