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Twenty-five inches, 95 square inches of head, 235 grams, aluminium, 16×17 pattern, a 3 7/8 inch grip, for players aged nine to ten and 50 to 55 inches tall. The last step before a full-size frame — and everybody has an opinion about when to take it.
Volkl Revolution 25 Tennis Racquet: Lean in, because the cathedral of St Nicholas is sitting up on Kapitelj hill acting innocent while a Tintoretto hangs above the altar like the biggest name at the party. And yes, the racquet heard everything.
Volkl Revolution 25 Tennis Racquet: The Main Square has a fountain, arcaded houses, and the exact layout for everyone to see who arrived with whom. Four centuries of side-eye could fit under those arches, darling.
Volkl Revolution 25 Tennis Racquet: The Kandija bridge crosses the Krka, and the locals upgraded the drama from wood to iron in the 1800s. Honestly, if bridges could gossip, this one would need its own newspaper column.
Volkl Revolution 25 Tennis Racquet: Jakac House is hung with Bozidar Jakac's paintings, which means the walls have been staring beautifully for years. The racquet walked in and suddenly everyone wanted to know who curated that entrance.
Everybody has a theory about this one, and I have heard all of them at the side of a court. The 25-inch racquet is the last junior size before a full-size frame, which makes it the most argued-about object in youth tennis. One parent will tell you to move up early because the child will grow into it.
Another will tell you that moving up early is precisely how you teach a short, muscled swing. What I will do is tell you exactly what the racquet is, so you can have the argument properly.
I am not going to settle that here.
Length 25 inches, 63.50 centimetres. Head size 95 square inches, 612.90 square centimetres — a generous face for the length, which is intentional, because a player at this stage is still finding the middle.
Weight 235 grams, 8.3 ounces, and that figure is the crux of the whole debate: light enough that a nine-year-old can accelerate the frame through the ball, which is the technical foundation everything later is built on. The construction is aluminium, which is why it can be that light at that size and stay affordable, and it is the standard material at this level.
Grip size 3 7/8 inches, sized for a real junior hand. Volkl put it at ages nine to ten, for players between 50 and 55 inches tall — and the honest guidance, which nobody wants to hear, is to measure the child rather than count their birthdays.
String pattern 16 mains by 17 crosses.
Novo Mesto is the right town for a subject people cannot stop discussing. It gathers around a bend in the Krka, with the cathedral of St Nicholas up on Kapitelj hill and a Tintoretto hanging above its altar — a painting like that, in a town this size, is a conversation that never quite finishes.
The Main Square has a fountain and arcaded houses ringed round it, which is a shape built for talking. Jakac House hangs Bozidar Jakac's paintings.
Measure the child. Then let everyone else have their theory.
