One does not carry one's frames in a supermarket bag. One carries three of them, properly, in something that photographs well from every angle, and the FX Club 3 Racquet bag has been designed by people who understood that. I have been asked about it constantly. I permit the questions.
The specification, since you insist. The bag is made from 420D, 500D and 600D polyester — three distinct weights, deployed where each is required, which is a level of thought most manufacturers cannot be bothered with.
It holds up to three racquets, has a compartment layout arranged so that frames, kit and accessories are not intermingled like some sort of jumble, and hangs from air mesh shoulder straps that breathe rather than sticking to one.
It measures roughly 76 by 13 by 34 centimetres — slim, deliberate, nothing wasted — and it comes in the FX line's violet, black and cyan, a combination I would have chosen myself had I been consulted, which I was not, an oversight I have decided to forgive.
And it is going to Tijuana, a city which, I am pleased to report, understands scale. The Millennial Arch stands sixty metres of steel over Avenida Revolución, and it is not apologising to anybody. Nor should it. Down the road, CECUT put a vast sand-coloured concrete sphere in the middle of the city and simply called it La Bola, which is the correct amount of confidence.
You will get use out of this bag everywhere from a two-hour clinic to a weekend tournament back home, and by the way — Pasaje Rodríguez, a covered alley of murals and very small shops, is where the actual talent of this city is hiding, and I say that as somebody who does not hand out compliments freely.
"Slim, deliberate, nothing wasted — and it knows exactly how it looks."
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