Right, let's work out what you're actually getting back here, because that is the only question worth asking and almost nobody asks it.
This is the Advantage from On's Roger line — the range the Swiss brand built with Roger Federer — and it sits in the all-court category, which is the first piece of good value in it. All-court means one pair covers hard court, covers the club's other surfaces, covers the resort court on holiday.
A shoe that only works on one surface is a shoe you own twice.
The build is lightweight and cushioned, and that pairing is where the real return is: light enough that your legs are not carrying dead weight through a two-hour cardio session, cushioned enough that the impact of the stopping does not go straight up into your knees.
Cheap court shoes get one of those two right and let you find out about the other one later, usually on a Tuesday, usually painfully.
What it is not: it is not a specialist clay shoe and it is not a stability-first shoe for a player who rolls ankles. Buying the wrong category is the single most expensive mistake in this sport and it never looks like a mistake at the time.
Know which of those you are.
Çorum is my kind of town, because the best things in it cost nothing. The Ulu Mosque sits right in the middle of the bazaar streets, so you walk to it through everybody's actual working day rather than across a car park. The nineteenth-century clock tower on its stone base is free to stand under and look up at, and I have stood under a great many towers that were not.
Çorum Castle is a square fort on the rocky rise over the town centre, and the view from up there is the best one available and has never charged anybody a thing.
You will wear these everywhere from a hard court on a hot afternoon to a long day on your feet in the old streets, and while you are here — the Çorum Museum is the one thing I would tell you to make time for, with its rooms of Hittite tablets and reliefs brought in from Hattusa and Alacahöyük. Genuine Bronze Age empire, in a provincial museum, without the queue.
That is the deal of the whole tour and I am handing it to you.
"A shoe that works on one surface is a shoe you end up owning twice."
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