Right. Before you buy this, understand what it is, because half the people carrying one are carrying it wrong. The CX Performance 12 racquet bag is a tournament bag. Not a club bag with ambitions — an actual tournament bag, in the CX line's red and black, sized for a player who needs frames, kit and shoes in one carry and does not want to make two trips from the car.
The body is 600D polyester with a PU coating and 1680D polyester with a PU coating, which is the heavier weave used where the bag takes the abuse — corners, base, the panels that meet the ground. That PU coating is what keeps a wet boot rack from getting into your kit.
The build is the part nobody reads.
Inside there are multiple compartments so rackets, clothing and accessories are not living in the same space, a thermal-lined main section to slow down what a hot car does to a string bed, and a separate shoe compartment, which exists so that the shoes stay away from everything else and everyone is happier.
Adjustable shoulder straps carry it as a backpack when it is full, which it will be. The whole thing measures roughly 76 by 44.5 by 34 centimetres.
They come for the Titanic, they do SeaCity Museum, they see the enormous scale model, and they leave. That is not the city.
Now, Southampton, and this is where everyone goes wrong.
Two streets away is the Bargate, a medieval stone gateway with lions guarding the arch, still standing in the middle of the shopping street like nothing happened, and the old walls run on from it to God's House Tower at the southeast corner. Walk that line and you will understand the place.
You will get use out of this bag everywhere from a cold morning by the water to a summer tournament back home, and by the way, Tudor House with its jettied timber floors and knot garden is the best forty minutes in this city and there is never a queue, which tells you everything about how people visit.
"A tournament bag pretending to be luggage, and better at both than it needs to be."
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