Okay so I need everyone to look at this because the Burn 100 is actually giving something and I want to explain what. Every other frame in the Burn line runs those Spin Effect patterns with more mains than crosses — very clever, very technical — and this one, this one alone, goes back to the traditional 16×19. That is the whole story.
It is the Burn for people who want the power and the stiffness but want the ball to come off the way they have always known it to come off.
The build: 100 square inch head, carbon fibre construction with the frame stiffness turned up, which is what produces the pace — you are not generating all of that, the frame is giving it to you on contact.
Head-light balance, so you can still swing fast and get the racquet round late, and Parallel Drilling in the grommets to open out the sweet spot so an imperfect ball still behaves. Baseline racquet. Aggressive racquet. Iconic.
Not a subtle racquet, and it is not trying to be, and honestly?
And we are taking it to Mitrovica, which is — okay, this is the content, this is the whole content. In the middle of the town, under glass, in the ground, there are the mosaic floors of the Imperial Palace of Sirmium. An imperial palace.
In the middle of a normal working town, with people walking past it on their way to get bread.
You stand on a walkway above a floor that emperors stood on, and the light comes through the glass at an angle in the afternoon that is unbelievable. Golden hour, right there, over a Roman floor. This is giving layers. Hashtag layers, and I am not sorry.
The Church of St Demetrius carries the name of the saint the town is named for, so that is your establishing shot right there. The Stone Flower fountain sits on the main square and it photographs from every side, which is rarer than you would think.
And the St Irenaeus footbridge is the longest in the country and it crosses the Sava, which means you get a walk out over open water with the whole town behind you. Shoot it back-lit, walking away, do not look at the camera. Trust me.
"An imperial floor, under glass, in the middle of a normal working street."
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