Wilson Micro-Dry Comfort Replacement Grip
About Dunedin
This South Island city stands at the head of Otago Harbour, with a name taken from the Gaelic form of Edinburgh. It was founded in 1848 by Free Church of Scotland settlers and grew rapidly after the Otago gold rush began in 1861, leaving it with New Zealand's first university, established in 1869.
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A replacement grip rather than an overgrip: the base layer that goes onto the bare handle and stays there, replacing the grip the racquet was sold with instead of wrapping over it.
The construction is a microfibre copolymer composite felt built specifically for moisture management, with a perforated surface and a thick foam backing. The two features work together.
The perforations give sweat somewhere to go instead of sitting under the palm, because a grip that holds moisture is a grip that goes slick, and a slick grip is squeezed harder — which is where forearm and elbow trouble usually begins.
The foam backing underneath supplies genuine cushioning rather than a thin tacky skin, and at around 2.1 mm this is a substantial build rather than a minimal one.
That thickness is a fitting decision as well as a comfort one.
A grip of this depth adds measurably to handle circumference, so a player at the top of a grip size should account for it.
Dunedin has a cool, damp, changeable climate, with a southerly that arrives without much warning — conditions in which a handle turns greasy quickly and a perforated, moisture-managing grip is doing continuous work.
Specifications
| Type | Replacement grip |
|---|---|
| Material | Microfibre copolymer composite felt |
| Surface | Perforated |
| Backing | Thick foam cushioning |
| Thickness | Approximately 2.1 mm |
| Sold as | Single grip |
| Brand | Wilson |
It is the comfort-oriented option in Wilson’s replacement grip range rather than the thinnest and most connected one, and it suits a player who wants cushioning ahead of feel.
LET Wilson Micro-Dry Comfort Replacement Grip SHOW YOU Dunedin
Grip: They called the architect Gingerbread George, and I refuse to pretend that is not the best thing here. George Troup built this between 1903 and 1906, dark basalt iced with Oamaru limestone, Flemish Renaissance revival laid on thick. The booking hall floor is about 725,000 Royal Doulton porcelain tiles worked into a design with a locomotive in it, and the same firm supplied the tiled friezes and the stained glass of engines. Up to a hundred trains a day at its peak, serving a city fattened by the 1860s Otago gold rush, briefly the largest in New Zealand. Tourist trains now, galleries inside.
Grip: Built between 1871 and 1887 for William Larnach, a banker and politician who shipped the ingredients in from Europe — Italian marble, Venetian glass, English tiles — and put hundreds of workers and years of carving to assembling them. Larnach's life ended in 1898 when he shot himself in a committee room of Parliament in Wellington, after business failures and family difficulties. The house passed through many hands, serving as a mental hospital and a nuns' retreat, and had fallen to ruin before the Barker family bought it in 1967 and restored it over decades. The only building here generally called a castle.
Grip: Central heating and a service lift in 1906 — someone here thought hard about getting dinner to the table hot. Olveston was built between 1904 and 1906 for the businessman David Theomin, to the design of the English architect Ernest George, in Jacobean revival. The Theomins, a Jewish family of English origin who prospered in importing and the piano trade, travelled widely and came home loaded: paintings, ceramics, Japanese and Chinese objects, furnishings. Their daughter Dorothy lived there until her death in 1966 and left the house complete with its contents to the city. A museum since 1967, almost exactly as they left it.
Grip: Everything here was prepped before anything was built, the only cooking lesson worth giving. Bell Hill had to come down first — picks and barrows through the 1860s, the spoil carted off to reclaim harbour land. Only then, in 1873, was First Church completed for the Presbyterian settlers who founded Dunedin in 1848 as a Free Church of Scotland settlement, the name being the Gaelic-derived one for Edinburgh. Robert Lawson won the commission by competition and gave it Gothic revival in Oamaru limestone, with a spire about fifty-four metres high. Widely called the finest nineteenth-century church in New Zealand, and still an active congregation.
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