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cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — the Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18x20 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Myanmar
cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Lawka Tharaphu Pagoda in Dawei, Reclining Buddha 75 metres long, white with gold robes and a gold headdress, lying on an open terrace on a low hillside outside Dawei with small whitewashed shrines set along the length of its base
cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Maungmagan Beach in Dawei, Long shallow crescent of grey-gold sand on the Andaman Sea about fourteen kilometres west of Dawei, backed by a line of casuarina trees and low green headlands, with small forested islands scattered offshore
cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Sargara Ancient City in Dawei, Low earth ramparts and the shallow line of a filled moat tracing a rough rectangle through open farmland about ten kilometres north of the modern town, with scattered palms growing on the banks
cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — The Dawei River in Dawei, Wide brown tidal river running past the eastern edge of the town between low mud banks, crowded with narrow wooden boats with high prows, with green forested hills rising beyond the far bank
cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — the Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18x20 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Myanmar

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet

Dawei, Myanmar  ·  Racquets > Adult

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet

This one is laterite: dense all the way through, and no give at all in the wrong direction. 320 g on a 97 in² hoop, an 18×20 bed, a 21 mm beam right round and 61 RA of flex. It will punish a lazy cut. Come out before dawn with it — four stops around Dawei, beginning on the river.

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Four stops before the checkout

Dawei, Myanmar
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cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Lawka Tharaphu Pagoda in Dawei, Reclining Buddha 75 metres long, white with gold robes and a gold headdress, lying on an open terrace on a low hillside outside Dawei with small whitewashed shrines set along the length of its base
Stop one

Lawka Tharaphu Pagoda

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet: Seventy-five metres of reclining Buddha, among the largest in Myanmar, and here is the part that thrills me: they laid it out in the open rather than inside a hall, so the whole figure is visible from the approach road. Out there. In the Tanintharyi monsoon. Full sun, full rain, no roof, and it simply takes the weather year after year. Dawei was a provincial capital of Pyu culture in the ancient period and part of the Pagan Empire from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Theravada Buddhist throughout, and colossal reclining images like this one are a Burmese devotional form built by public subscription. Bring an umbrella. The Buddha did not.

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cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Maungmagan Beach in Dawei, Long shallow crescent of grey-gold sand on the Andaman Sea about fourteen kilometres west of Dawei, backed by a line of casuarina trees and low green headlands, with small forested islands scattered offshore
Stop two

Maungmagan Beach

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet: Now this is a coastline. Maungmagan is the beach of Dawei, and the British used it as a retreat during the colonial period, which is what you do when the interior gets hot enough to melt policy. Dawei was called Tavoy then; it passed to British rule after the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824 to 1826, Tenasserim being among the first Burmese territories they held, and the name stayed Tavoy until it was officially changed in 1989. Offshore sit the Launglon Bok islands, and the coast running south gives you Teyzit, Sin Htauk and Grandfather beaches. Open Andaman Sea, and nothing at all between here and the next storm.

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cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — Sargara Ancient City in Dawei, Low earth ramparts and the shallow line of a filled moat tracing a rough rectangle through open farmland about ten kilometres north of the modern town, with scattered palms growing on the banks
Stop three

Sargara Ancient City

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet: Six miles north lies Sargara, Old Dawei, the earlier settlement the present city descends from, and there is nothing standing at all. Earthworks, not buildings, because that is what a few centuries of tropical rain will do to a walled city. Excavation has produced Pyu material here, burial urns, beads and coins, evidence this coast belonged to the Pyu world that dominated central and southern Burma before Pagan rose. A second walled site, Mokhti, sits in the same area. Come in the wet season and watch the ditches fill and quietly redraw the plan of the place. The weather buried it and the weather still maps it.

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cardio tennis clinics Melrose Manors — The Dawei River in Dawei, Wide brown tidal river running past the eastern edge of the town between low mud banks, crowded with narrow wooden boats with high prows, with green forested hills rising beyond the far bank
Stop four

The Dawei River

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet: The river is the whole story. Dawei stands on the eastern bank of the Dawei River, on the long narrow strip of Tanintharyi coast pinched between the Andaman Sea and the Thai border, which means the monsoon arrives off the water with no warning and nowhere else to go. The river gave the town its harbour and its route inland. Control shifted repeatedly between Thai and Burmese rule from 1287 to 1765 because this is the natural crossing between the two, and that contested position is why the Dawei dialect and local identity are still so distinct. Geography did that. Weather made the geography.

The Dawei, Myanmar track

Yonex Vcore Pro 97D 18×20 Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Before dawn, one careful cut into the bark, and if you take too much you kill the tree. Everything I do is about a controlled amount of give. That is what this frame is. The VCore Pro 97D is the dense-pattern control racquet: a 97 sq in head with an 18×20 string pattern, 320 g / 11.3 oz, 27 in / 68.58 cm long, with a genuinely thin 21 mm beam all the way round.

Balance is 310 mm, around seven points head-light, with a swingweight near 330 and a low 61 RA stiffness, strung between 45 and 60 lbs. The layup is HM Graphite with 2G-Namd Flex Force, Flex Fuse and VDM damping. That combination — heavy, flexible, thin-beamed, tightly strung pattern — is why it plows through the ball and gives you feel rather than a trampoline.

It is a serious player's frame and it will not flatter a lazy swing.

Dawei sits on the Tanintharyi coast, and my trees are all around it. The Dawei River gave the town its harbour and its route inland, on the long narrow strip between the Andaman Sea and the Thai border, with control shifting repeatedly between Thai and Burmese rulers.

Lawka Tharaphu Pagoda houses a reclining Buddha 75 metres long, among the largest in Myanmar, laid out in the open so the whole figure is visible from the approach road. Maungmagan Beach is the town's beach and was the British retreat during the colonial period, after Tavoy passed to British rule following the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-26.

And Sargara, Old Dawei, lies about six miles north — the earlier settlement, where excavation has produced Pyu burial urns, beads and coins.

It behaves everywhere from a hard court in the Dawei heat to a covered court with the monsoon on the roof, and the 21 mm beam tells you the same thing in both. It is also perfect for the flat walk out to Maungmagan, because 320 grams is a real weight in the hand and there is very little else to do with a morning once the cutting is finished.

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