Let me put both perspectives on the table. Some would say a cap is the least technical thing in a tennis bag and hardly worth discussing. Others would point out that on a hot court it is the only piece of equipment protecting your eyes and face from the sun, and that a match can turn on one high ball you could not track. Both are true.
This one is made from 100% recycled polyester, which is light and quick to dry, and Babolat build their caps specifically for racquet sports rather than borrowing a running shape. It adjusts at the back. It absorbs perspiration. Available in white, black, sodalite blue, cyan blue and fiesta red, and it is unisex.
That is the whole brief, honestly stated. It is not a technical sun garment and there is no engineered venting system to describe, so I will not describe one.
You will use it everywhere from a bright seafront court to an outdoor hard court back home in high summer, and by the way, it is also perfect for a long afternoon on the Sokhumi embankment, where the shade is intermittent and the light comes off the water twice.
Sokhumi is a place where holding two perspectives at once is simply what paying attention costs you. The Botanical Garden was founded in 1840 around a vast hollow linden that people have been walking into and out of for the better part of two centuries.
The seafront Colonnade runs white arches straight at the water.
Up the hill, Bagrat's Castle is ruined stone above the sea, and the walls have watched a great deal of history that is described differently depending on who is describing it. And there is the monkey nursery, with its monument to laboratory monkeys — a memorial that some would call touching and others would call an admission.
It is, quite genuinely, both.
"A monument to the animals a laboratory used. Some call that tribute. Some call it a confession. Sokhumi lets it be both."
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