Everyone wants the lead. I understand the impulse and I want to be honest with you about what happens next: the lead in this family is the C10 Pro, it weighs 330 grams, and a great many players who buy it find out in the second set that they have cast themselves in a part they cannot sustain. The C10 Evo is the understudy, and the understudy has the better career.
Same name, same heritage, same frame design — the legendary thin-beam player's frame, in a version that keeps working when your arm has been working for two hours.
Weight 310 grams, 10.9 ounces. Head 630 square centimetres, 98 square inches. The beam is 19 millimetres, which is genuinely thin and is the reason the frame flexes and the ball stays on the strings long enough for you to feel where it went. Length 68.5 centimetres, 27 inches. Balance 32.5 centimetres, seven millimetres head-light.
The specification is where the case is made.
The Twin Absorber handle system sits underneath, damping what comes back up the shaft. What all that produces is a racquet that is very fast through the air — the first thing anyone notices — while remaining stable enough to take a hard-hit ball and put heavy spin back on it.
String pattern 16 by 19, open, so spin is available.
It can be played as it comes or customised with weight to sit wherever a player wants it, which is unusual and is the reason people keep them for years.
Birkirkara knows about the understudy's revenge. Il-Knisja l-Qadima, the Renaissance old parish church of the Assumption, was left standing when the new church was built — the replaced building that simply refused to go away, and which is now the one people cross town to see.
Meanwhile St Helen's Basilica of 1727 carries Malta's largest bell, and the old Birkirkara railway station, the double-tracked stop of a railway that no longer exists, sits inside a public garden.
The frame you can still swing in the third set is the one that was cast correctly.
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