Lean in, because I am going to tell you what this racquet is before somebody sells you the flattering version. It is the super-light one. Two hundred and sixty-five grams unstrung — 9.35 ounces — with a hundred square inch head, an open 16 by 18 pattern, 27 inches, high-modulus graphite, in pearl silver. Grip sizes G0 to G2, so it is cut for smaller hands as well.

Here is what nobody says out loud about light racquets: most of them punish you for the privilege. Take weight out of a frame and you take stability out with it, and suddenly a firmly struck ball is turning the racquet in your hand.

What this one has going for it is the Synchro Frame and those Uniform Impact Grommets, which hold the strings so that impact stays consistent across more of the bed — a wider, more forgiving centre, in other words, on a frame light enough to swing all afternoon.

That is a genuinely useful combination for anyone coming back from a shoulder, playing a lot of doubles, or simply tired of a racquet that feels like a shovel by the third set. It is not a heavy control stick and it will not stand up to a big flat hitter across the net.

Now you know, and you did not hear it from me.

And Cajamarca. Oh, Cajamarca. This is where it happened, in 1532: Atahualpa taken in the square, held prisoner, and the famous offer — a room filled once with gold and twice with silver for his freedom. They filled it. He was killed anyway.

The room is still standing, and you can walk into it, and the trapezoidal Inca stonework is right there in front of you, and the whole thing is still discussed in this town in the present tense. Meanwhile, twenty minutes away, the hot springs he was said to be bathing in when the Spanish arrived are still steaming, and people still get in them.

They filled the room. He was killed anyway.

Five hundred years, and nobody here says it calmly.

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