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cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — the Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel combined with the national flag of India
cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Nanded Fort (Nandgiri Fort) in Nanded, A dark basalt fortification standing about four kilometres from the city centre on the bank of the Godavari, the river wrapping it on three sides so that it reads as a stone platform in a bend of water. Massive round bastions eighteen to twenty metres high rise from a double line of walls; only about eight of the original bastions are intact, the rest reduced to stumps. Inside, the enclosure has been laid out as a public garden with lawns and a masonry water tank
cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — The Godavari Ghats at Nanded in Nanded, Long flights of grey stone steps running the width of the riverbank down into the Godavari, broken by small square landings and low platforms. Concrete and stone embankment walls rise behind them, with the city's rooftops and temple spires above; the river is broad and slow here, often brown with silt, and the far bank is low and green
cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Kandhar Fort in Nanded, A land fort, not a hill fort: a squat stone enclosure sitting flat in open farmland about forty kilometres from Nanded, entirely surrounded by a broad water-filled moat roughly thirty metres wide and seven or eight metres deep, so that the walls rise straight out of standing green water. The enclosure covers about twenty-four acres. Bastions and domed chambers of later date break the wall line, and a causeway carries the approach across the moat
cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Vishnupuri Barrage and Shankar Sagar in Nanded, A long low concrete barrage across the Godavari about five kilometres upstream of Nanded, a straight line of vertical gate piers and lifting gear spanning the full width of the river, with a road deck across the top. Upstream it holds back a wide flat sheet of water backed by low scrub-covered banks; downstream the river runs shallow over rock
cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — the Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel combined with the national flag of India

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel

Nanded, India  ·  Strings > 16g

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel

This is the spin string at its beefiest, 1.30 mm — 200 m of ridges that seize the nap and press the ball down into the court. Pressure and fall, not wrist. The Godavari at Nanded comes first: the ghats, the forts, and a barrage doing precisely the same job.

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Nanded, India
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cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Nanded Fort (Nandgiri Fort) in Nanded, A dark basalt fortification standing about four kilometres from the city centre on the bank of the Godavari, the river wrapping it on three sides so that it reads as a stone platform in a bend of water. Massive round bastions eighteen to twenty metres high rise from a double line of walls; only about eight of the original bastions are intact, the rest reduced to stumps. Inside, the enclosure has been laid out as a public garden with lawns and a masonry water tank
Stop one

Nanded Fort (Nandgiri Fort)

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel: Nanded was taken in 1318 by Muhammad bin Tughluq, and the fort in its present form is attributed to him — attributed, note, which is the polite word for 'we know who ordered it and not one name of anyone who lifted a stone'. And those bastions are eighteen to twenty metres of basalt, cut, hauled and set by hand, on a river bend. Then it changes hands like a shift rota: Bahmani from 1358, Ahmadnagar from 1527 — whose builders left the domed work you can still see — Shah Jahan in 1617, Shivaji in 1670, the Nizams until 1948. Six owners. One workforce, generation after generation. It's a garden now. Enjoy the garden.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — The Godavari Ghats at Nanded in Nanded, Long flights of grey stone steps running the width of the riverbank down into the Godavari, broken by small square landings and low platforms. Concrete and stone embankment walls rise behind them, with the city's rooftops and temple spires above; the river is broad and slow here, often brown with silt, and the far bank is low and green
Stop two

The Godavari Ghats at Nanded

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel: These steps did not happen. Somebody cut them. Long flights of grey stone running the full width of the bank into the Godavari, the longest river in peninsular India, with landings and platforms squared off by hand — that is quarrying, dressing, hauling and setting, repeated for centuries and maintained ever since by people whose names appear on no plaque. This reach is called Dakshin Kashi, the Kashi of the South, measured directly against the ghats of Varanasi, and rites have been performed here for generations. Satavahanas, Rashtrakutas, Delhi Sultanate, Nizams all ruled this ground. The river crossing is why the city exists. The steps are why anyone can use it.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Kandhar Fort in Nanded, A land fort, not a hill fort: a squat stone enclosure sitting flat in open farmland about forty kilometres from Nanded, entirely surrounded by a broad water-filled moat roughly thirty metres wide and seven or eight metres deep, so that the walls rise straight out of standing green water. The enclosure covers about twenty-four acres. Bastions and domed chambers of later date break the wall line, and a causeway carries the approach across the moat
Stop three

Kandhar Fort

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel: Look at that moat before you look at the walls. Thirty metres across, seven or eight deep, all the way round, in flat farmland — that is not architecture, that is earthmoving, and it was done with hands and baskets. The earthwork fort was rebuilt in stone by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna III around 941 CE, when Kandhar was a seat of Rashtrakuta power, and the moat is believed to date from that phase. It passed through Bahmani and Ahmadnagar hands, and the dome profiles are Ahmadnagar work. Sculpture and inscriptions from the site record the town's importance under the Rashtrakutas. They record the empire. Somebody dug the ditch.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33312 — Vishnupuri Barrage and Shankar Sagar in Nanded, A long low concrete barrage across the Godavari about five kilometres upstream of Nanded, a straight line of vertical gate piers and lifting gear spanning the full width of the river, with a road deck across the top. Upstream it holds back a wide flat sheet of water backed by low scrub-covered banks; downstream the river runs shallow over rock
Stop four

Vishnupuri Barrage and Shankar Sagar

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel: Now this one I like, because it is a job that is never finished. The Vishnupuri barrage was built across the Godavari to hold water for Nanded's supply and for irrigation across the district, forming the reservoir called Shankar Sagar. The scheme lifts water from the impounded reach up to command land well above the river, and Maharashtra tourism calls it the largest lift irrigation project in Asia. Which means pumps. Which means people on shift keeping pumps running so a district can eat. And those gates are a fixture of monsoon reporting every year, because heavy rain upstream forces releases — decided, opened and watched by operators nobody ever interviews.

The Nanded, India track

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Reel

Written for this world alone.

Everyone wants to talk about the taps. Nobody wants to talk about the fall, the head, the pressure — the boring part that decides whether water arrives or dribbles. Same with spin. People talk about the wrist. It is the string.

Volkl Cyclone is a shaped co-polyester monofilament: five-sided rather than round, so the edges catch the felt and grab it. That is the whole mechanism of a spin string. The bite bends the ball down inside the court, which lets you swing fully at a ball you would otherwise have to steer.

This is the 660-foot (200 m) reel in 16 gauge, 1.30 mm — the durable gauge, around sixteen racquets, the version a stringer buys because half the club now wants Cyclone. It is firm and control-oriented, with a low launch angle and very little string movement.

Two things to know: string a co-poly five to ten percent below your usual synthetic tension, and cut it out at around fifteen to twenty hours of play, because co-polys go dead long before they break.

Nanded is a city of water management, ancient and modern. The Vishnupuri barrage was built on the Godavari to store water for the city and to irrigate the surrounding district, forming the Shankar Sagar reservoir and lifting water to command land well above the river. That is head and fall, done properly, at civic scale.

The Godavari is the longest river of peninsular India, and the ghats here are known as Dakshin Kashi, the Kashi of the South. Above the city stands Nanded Fort, taken in 1318 by Muhammad bin Tughluq and carrying later Ahmadnagar domed work. And Kandhar Fort was rebuilt in stone by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna III around 941 CE, with a great moat from that phase.

You will draw this reel down everywhere from a hard court on the Godavari bank at Nanded to an indoor hall in Nagpur, and by the way, it is also perfect for a walk along the ghats at first light, when the river is doing all the work and nobody is talking about the taps.

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