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Three racquets, one Thermoguard-lined main compartment, three exterior pockets, 72 by 13 by 33 centimetres of polyester, and a triangular carabiner that hangs it off the fence. Armagh has two cathedrals, an observatory and the earthwork of Emain Macha; it is fortunate I came.
Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour Tennis Bag: I graciously allowed this cathedral — consecrated in 1904 after nearly sixty years of construction, its twin spires soaring to 64 metres — to appear in the same frame as my bag, and quite frankly the spires have never looked more significant. You're welcome, Armagh.
Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour Tennis Bag: Emain Macha served as the ancient ceremonial capital of Ulster for some six hundred years before around 100 BC — and yet the most commanding presence at this 40-acre earthwork today is, transparently, this bag. Ancient kings built monuments; I simply carry one.
Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour Tennis Bag: The Armagh Observatory, founded in 1790, is one of the oldest meteorological stations in the world still in continuous operation — naturally, the astronomers here have spent centuries scanning the heavens looking for something this dazzling, and they've only just found it. The search is over, gentlemen.
Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour Tennis Bag: The Mall was cleared of horse racing in the 1770s by Archbishop Richard Robinson to create this elegant Georgian promenade — a man of impeccable taste, clearly, who understood that a space this refined deserved something extraordinary at its centre. He simply lacked the foresight to place a Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour Tennis Bag there himself; I have corrected that oversight.
One does not carry fifteen racquets. One carries three, beautifully, and lets the porters manage the rest. The Wilson Clash V3 Super Tour 3 Pack is therefore the correct object: a single main compartment taking up to three frames along with apparel and gear, lined with Thermoguard so that heat does not get at your string tension while you are elsewhere doing something more interesting.
Dimensions 72.4 by 12.7 by 33 centimetres — 28.5 by 5 by 13 inches — in 100 per cent polyester, durable and, more to the point, easy to clean, which matters when one is photographed. Three exterior side pockets for a phone, a wallet, whatever one is carrying.
The details, since you asked.
A dual carry system: grab handle for the walk from the car, padded backpack straps when there is actual distance involved. The shell carries the subtle triangle pattern taken from the Clash frames themselves, which is the kind of quiet coordination I insist upon.
And then the carabiner. A triangular premium hook that clips the bag to the court fence, off the ground entirely.
I have never once put a bag on the floor and I do not intend to begin.
Armagh, then. A small city, and I say that kindly. It possesses two cathedrals on two hills, which is more than most capitals manage, and the twin spires of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral are visible from a considerable distance — very good, very well arranged, someone here understood a sightline.
Navan Fort is the earthwork of Emain Macha, which is to say the royal seat of the whole cycle of legends, the court of Conchobar, the ground the great stories are set in. An enormous mound and a ring of bank and ditch, and the entire literary inheritance of a country attached to it. I am prepared to be impressed by that.
The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium has been keeping records here since the eighteenth century, which is exactly the sort of continuity I respect, and the Mall is a Georgian green with a cricket ground on it, laid out with rather more taste than one expects this far from anywhere.
A good city. It has been looked at by me now, which should help.
"Two cathedrals on two hills. More than most capitals manage."
