Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
285 g unstrung, 301 g strung, a 100 square inch head, 16×19 and a 22 mm flat beam — the light Blade, with FeelFlex and a Cushion-Aire grip. It comes unstrung, sorry. Sylhet has a bridge of iron bowed across 1,150 feet since 1936, which is much more interesting than anything I have to say.
Wilson Blade 100L V9: Oh — oh goodness, I'm so sorry for just, um, placing a tennis racquet here of all places. Shah Jalal was a 14th-century Sufi missionary who is credited with bringing Islam to this region, and millions of people come to pay their respects at his dargah every year, so I really do understand if you'd rather I just… took it and left. I can go. Honestly.
Wilson Blade 100L V9: I — I brought the racquet to the clock, which is probably a strange thing to do, and I'm sorry, you can absolutely say so. Ali Amjad's Clock was erected in 1874 in memory of a local zamindar's son, and it's been standing on the riverbank ever since, which is… rather longer than I would have the nerve to stand anywhere, honestly. Please don't feel obligated to keep reading.
Wilson Blade 100L V9: So, um, I put the racquet on Keane Bridge, which — I know, I know, I probably shouldn't have, and I'm very sorry. Keane Bridge has stretched 1,150 feet across the Surma in iron and steel since 1936, which is genuinely impressive, and I just want to say that the bridge deserves much better company than me and a tennis racquet, and I… I think that's probably enough from me on this.
Wilson Blade 100L V9: I'm — I'm really sorry to intrude here as well, this is the second sacred shrine I've shown up to with a tennis racquet and I assure you it was not the plan. Shah Paran is believed to have been a nephew of Shah Jalal himself, and his shrine to the east of the city is a deeply revered site for pilgrims, so I will absolutely pack up and go if everyone would prefer. Just say the word. Or don't — I'll probably leave anyway.
Sorry — before I start, I do want to be clear that this comes unstrung, because I would hate anyone to be caught out by that. It is on the manufacturer's own sheet and I am only repeating it. Right. Um.
The Wilson Blade 100L V9. Length 68.58 centimetres, 27 inches. Unstrung it is 285 grams, 10.05 ounces, and strung it comes out around 301 grams, 10.62 ounces. Balance is 33 centimetres unstrung, which is 4 points head light, and closer to 34 centimetres, about 1 point head light, once there is string in it.
The head is 645 square centimetres, 100 square inches.
The taper system is a flat 22 millimetres and the string pattern is 16×19. Wilson's model number is WR15010, if that is useful to anyone, which it probably is not.
Sorry, I will speed up. It has FeelFlex, which is Wilson's word for the responsiveness that gives the frame its connected feel, and Parallel Drilling, which is a grommet arrangement that makes the string bed respond more consistently and enlarges the sweet spot.
There is a Cushion-Aire grip on the handle.
It is the light end of the Blade family — the control line — so it swings quickly and forgives more than the heavier Blades, and the open pattern means you are not fighting for spin. It will not overpower anybody, and I do not think it is trying to.
Am I still going? Sorry. Sylhet, then, and honestly Sylhet does not need me.
The dargah of Shah Jalal at Dargah Mahalla is the heart of the city, with its largest mosque built beside it, and people come from very far away to stand there. Ali Amjad's Clock stands at the river. And the Keane Bridge — the Keane Bridge is the one. Iron and steel, bowed across 1,150 feet of the Surma since 1936, and still the thing the whole city is arranged around.
Somebody worked out that span with a slide rule and it is still holding traffic ninety years later, which is more than can be said for most confident statements.
The shrine of Shah Paran sits east of the city, quieter. That is where I would go. Sorry to have gone on so long. I did not expect anyone to still be reading.
"Somebody worked out that span by hand, and it is still standing."
