Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Yes, it’s the moody Volkl that expects you to supply the drama. PB 10 Mid: 93 sq in, 330 g, beam: 19 mm, 16×19, 31 cm toward the handle; ships with no strings, tension 55 lb +/-5. Real midsize player's racquet, cult status, zero charity. Ugh. Huambo, Angola
Volkl PB 10 Mid Tennis Racquet: So here’s the racquet at the cathedral, which is fine, I guess. It’s the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Huambo and is dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição, but obviously I’m not, like, impressed or anything.
Volkl PB 10 Mid Tennis Racquet: Train station photo, because apparently we do homework now. The Benguela Railway runs from Lobito on the Atlantic across central Angola toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo border, which is actually kind of a big deal—whatever, forget I said that.
Volkl PB 10 Mid Tennis Racquet: The racquet is posing by Cristo Rei, looking over Huambo like it has plans or something. The statue stands above the city as a major lookout point, which is fine, I guess, if you’re into views and basic geographic elevation.
Volkl PB 10 Mid Tennis Racquet: Here it is with Morro do Moco, because apparently a tennis racquet needed a mountain era. It’s Angola’s highest peak at about 2,620 meters, and yes, I knew that, but don’t make it weird.
Okay so. This one is not going to help you. Like, at all. It is a 93-square-inch head — that is midsize, which basically nobody makes any more — and 330 grams, and a 19-millimetre beam, and if you miss the middle you will know about it in your elbow before you know about it in the scoreline. It is unstrung out of the box, so you cannot even play with it on day one.
There is an actual cult. I do not entirely get it but I have hit with one and, fine, I get it.
Somehow this is the racquet people are weird about.
Here is the whole sheet. Head size 600 square centimetres, 93 square inches. Weight 330 grams, 11.6 ounces. Length 68.5 centimetres, 27 inches. Balance 31 centimetres, 1.3 inches head-light. String pattern 16 by 19. Recommended tension 25 kilograms plus or minus 2, which is 55 pounds plus or minus 5. Grip sizes 1 through 5. Item number V17604.
Cross section 19 millimetres.
PB stands for Power Bridge, and it comes unstrung, so factor that in.
What it actually does is precision. The thin beam and the comfortable flex mean the ball sits on the strings and goes where you aimed rather than where the frame decided — scalpel-like, is the phrase, and it is not wrong. The head-light balance plus the traditional weight means it is manoeuvrable if you can handle 330 grams, and if you cannot, none of the above applies to you.
Open pattern, so spin is there. Volleys are solid, serves land heavy, and it blunts a big hitter's pace instead of amplifying it.
Huambo is a good match, honestly. Everything there is either very old or was rebuilt from the ground up. The cathedral, the station on the Benguela Railway, the Cristo Rei up over the city, and Morro do Moco, the highest peak in Angola, which does not care whether you climb it.
It does not flatter anyone. That is literally the point.
