The right question about a bag is the same as the right question about a kitchen: where does everything live, and can you reach it without moving three other things. A long backpack answers that better than a fat one, and this is the long one.
What it is. The SX Club Long Backpack is the extended-format member of Dunlop's SX Club range, cut tall enough to take two racquets at their full length rather than folding your kit around a stubby compartment.
The SX Club bags are built from layered polyester — 420D, 500D and 600D, the heavier weaves placed where the bag scrapes and lands — with air mesh shoulder straps, which is the detail that decides whether you carry a loaded bag comfortably or arrive with two red stripes across your shoulders.
The compartment layout is arranged so racquets, apparel and accessories each have somewhere to be. It is a club bag, not a tournament coffin, and it is honest about that: two frames, a change of kit, a bottle, and the small things, all findable.
The colourway is the SX line's teal, black and yellow.
And it wants Peshawar, which is the correct posting for anything that carries food. Qissa Khwani Bazaar is the street of storytellers — caravans stopped here, and the tea houses that fed them are still open, still pouring, and green tea with cardamom in that street is one of the world's great drinks.
Chapli kabab is made here and made properly, flat, wide, cooked in its own fat, and you eat it with naan straight off the wall of the oven. Up in Mohallah Sethian, Sethi House has carved woodwork and coloured glass over a deep summer cellar dug so the family could sit out the heat underground, which is climate control by architecture and I respect it enormously.
You will get use out of this bag everywhere from a two-court club session to a weekend away back home, and by the way, the Peshawar Museum holds a hall of Buddhist stone carving out of the Kushan cities, and it deserves the whole morning.
"Where does everything live, and can you reach it without moving three other things?"
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