Right — first day, so bear with me, I have my notes here. The Head Athletic Ball Pocket Women's Tennis Skirt. And the name is doing the work, which I am told is unusual and I am thrilled about it. It is a tennis skirt. It has a ball pocket.
That is not a marketing flourish, that is the feature: somewhere to put the second ball so it is not in your hand, not up a sleeve, not rolling around behind the baseline where somebody will step on it at deuce.
I wrote "pocket" and I should be precise, because it is the pocket that changes how you serve. With the ball stowed you have both hands free, so the toss goes up clean and the second serve is not a negotiation with your own fingers.
Sorry — one correction to what I just said.
The fabric is moisture-wicking, which on a hot afternoon is the difference between a skirt that stays light and one that starts wearing you. It is a skirt, it wicks, it carries a ball. I could pad this out but they told me on my first morning not to say anything I could not stand behind, and I would like to still be here next week.
And that is honestly what I have.
Where it wants to go is Karlovy Vary, and I got quite excited reading this bit. There is a geyser in the middle of the town — seventy-two-degree water, thrown twelve metres into the air, indoors, inside its own colonnade. Twelve metres. Inside a building. I read that three times to make sure I had it right.
"Both hands free means the toss goes up clean. That is the whole feature."
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