Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Broad toe box, two straps locking the arch zone, rocker geometry underfoot, Michelin rubber gripping the court — sold to the woman who runs every corner in Trier. Going, going, gone.
Babolat SFX4 All Court Women's Tennis Shoes: Lot one, wide fit, all-court grip, Roman drama included—who’ll start the bidding at one blackened gate, two thousand years of swagger, sandstone blocks stacked without mortar and still holding the line? Sold to the runner who brought laces to a fortress.
Babolat SFX4 All Court Women's Tennis Shoes: Look here, look fast, cathedral behind, cushioning below—Trier Cathedral is rooted in Roman imperial foundations and still carries Roman brickwork in its west front, value upon value, century upon century! Final offer: holy arches, unholy footwork.
Babolat SFX4 All Court Women's Tennis Shoes: Going once for the brick throne hall, going twice for Constantine’s basilica, sixty-seven metres of bare Roman space and just enough room to overbid your own baseline split step! Hammer down. Echo wins.
Babolat SFX4 All Court Women's Tennis Shoes: Step right up, imperial baths on the left, service tunnels underneath, fourth-century ambition everywhere—the Kaiserthermen were never finished, which means this is a premium historical fixer-upper with excellent underground access! No tub. Great shoes.
Right, quickly now, here is the lot and here is what it is worth. The SFX4 in the women's fit is the comfort and width model, and the catalogue entry is the definition of comfort, which normally I would discount straight away — except that this one lists the mechanisms, so we can actually value it. Wide fit. Heel extension. Ventilated upper. Going once on the vague claims; sold on the specifics.
And the specifics are good. The forefoot sits in a bucket support, a raised surround rather than a flat bed, so that stopping hard or turning fast keeps the foot contained instead of letting it run off the side of the sole.
Two lateral straps wrap the centre of the foot to support and stabilise it through sideways movement.
Pro Shield is a protective moulded piece of heavy-duty rubber covering the inside forefoot through to the toe, guarding the one place every court shoe fails first. Extra Cush is the headline: a heel extension plus a rocker geometry, maintaining a consistent thickness of EVA foam beneath the heel so the cushioning holds up whatever angle you come down at.
Underneath, Michelin Original rubber, a compound with 20 years and more of proving. Colourways: White/Dark Purple, White/Silver and Peach/Teal. Do I hear a better-specified comfort shoe? I do not.
The upper is lightweight and ventilated.
Trier, then, and Trier is the oldest lot in the room. The Porta Nigra is a blackened Roman gate built from sandstone blocks laid without mortar — no mortar, and it is still standing, which at auction we would call provenance. Trier Cathedral still has Roman brickwork buried in its squat west front, reused rather than replaced.
The Aula Palatina is Constantine's brick throne hall, sixty-seven metres of bare interior space with nothing in it but scale. And the Kaiserthermen are unfinished imperial baths whose service tunnels still run underground, so you can walk beneath a building that was never completed.
You will get use out of these everywhere from that Roman paving to a hard court back home in April, and by the way, they are also perfect for a slow evening of Mosel Riesling and Viez in the old town, which nobody has ever rushed and nobody ever should.
"A gate built without mortar, still standing after eighteen centuries. Going once. Nobody is going to beat that."
