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Nineteen inches long, 80 square inches of head, 165 grams, a 19 mm cross section and the smallest grip Volkl make. Built for beginners aged three to five — which is to say, for the first racquet anybody ever holds. Everything starts somewhere.
Volkl Revolution 19 Tennis Racquet: By jove, we appear to have stumbled upon Garh Palace, merely a modest fort-palace above the Chambal with the Rao Madho Singh Museum sheltering Kota miniature paintings. I shall pretend nobody has noticed this splendid place before, while the racquet looks ready to volley history itself.
Volkl Revolution 19 Tennis Racquet: Aha, Jagmandir! Quite the secret, except for being a red sandstone palace sitting plainly on an island in Kishore Sagar tank. The racquet and I arrived heroically by imagination, which is safer for the shoes.
Volkl Revolution 19 Tennis Racquet: Forward to Chambal Garden, a landscaped riverside retreat below Kota’s fort, where even the riverbank seems to have dressed for an expedition. The paved paths make this discovery almost dangerously convenient.
Volkl Revolution 19 Tennis Racquet: Great Scott, Seven Wonders Park has gathered scale models of famous monuments in one Kota park, as if sightseeing itself agreed to stop wandering. The racquet is taking notes, though it insists the Eiffel Tower replica needs a service line.
Everything starts somewhere, and this is somewhere. The Volkl Revolution 19 is the smallest racquet in the range and it exists for the single most important shot in tennis: the first one a child ever hits, the one that decides whether there will be a second.
The numbers are small and every one of them is doing something. Length 48.3 centimetres, 19 inches — short enough that a three-year-old can hold it out at arm's length without the head dropping to the floor, which is the actual physical barrier to a small child swinging anything.
Head size 516 square centimetres, 80 square inches, generous relative to that length, so the ball has somewhere friendly to land. Weight 165 grams, 5.8 ounces, which is a fraction of an adult frame and about the weight of a paperback.
Cross section 19 millimetres.
Grip size 00000, the smallest Volkl make, because a handle too fat for the hand is the fastest way to teach a child a grip they will spend years unlearning. Item number V18J19. Volkl put it at ages three to five, and the practical advice is to go by the child's height and reach rather than the birthday on the calendar.
Kota is a good place to begin from, being a city that puts its beginnings on display and then shows you the whole world afterwards. The Garh Palace stands above the Chambal with the Rao Madho Singh museum of Kota miniatures inside — an entire school of painting, worked at a scale that fits in your hands.
Jagmandir is a red sandstone island palace set in the Kishore Sagar tank.
The Chambal Garden runs along the riverbank below the fort. And the Seven Wonders Park holds scale models of famous monuments, which is exactly the right idea: the whole world, made small enough for a child to walk around in an afternoon.
Small racquet, small grip, short swing. The first one has to be possible.
