Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
A spin racquet with the mass to return a heavy ball with interest. 98 in² / 630 cm², 305 g, 16/19, 27 in, beam 22/23/21, Hy-Bor and Auxetic 2.0 through the throat, spin and sound grommets — I was in Regina in 1912 and would happily go again, so bring walking shoes.
Head Extreme Pro Tennis Racquet: I watched them finish this grand stone number in 1912 above Wascana Lake, and yes, it looked better then—fewer tripods, more hats. I told Walter it needed a tennis court out front, but apparently governing got priority.
Head Extreme Pro Tennis Racquet: I was there in 1961 when Minoru laid out Wascana Centre’s nine square kilometres of parkland, and the man had scale—my time machine needed a lunch break crossing it. Looked better then, naturally, though this racquet gives the future a decent topspin.
Head Extreme Pro Tennis Racquet: I popped into Depot Division back when the boots were shinier, and it is still the RCMP’s training ground, which explains the posture. I offered a quick cardio-tennis drill; the horse judged me, fairly.
Head Extreme Pro Tennis Racquet: I toured the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s halls of natural history before half the fossils had unionized, and yes, the ancient creatures looked better then. This racquet beside them is the first thing in centuries with a livelier backhand.
I was there when the Extreme family decided what it was going to be about, and it was never about control. It was about spin, and it still is.
The Extreme Pro is the tournament version of that idea: 98 square inches — 630 square centimetres — 305 grams unstrung, which is 10.8 ounces, a 16/19 pattern, 315 millimetres of balance, an inch head-light, 27 inches long, on a beam that runs 22/23/21 millimetres. Numbers I could recite in my sleep, and have.
The open 16/19 pattern lets the mains move and snap back, so the ball comes off with revolutions on it, and spin grommets are fitted to let that snap-back happen faster still. Sound grommets give the crisp report the series has always had — you can hear a good one from the next court.
What those numbers do together is the interesting part.
Hy-Bor in the shaft, which is aerospace-grade material worked in to raise perceived stability, and Auxetic 2.0 with it, so you can feel where on the string bed you made contact. And the 305 grams is not decoration: mass is what lets you take a heavy incoming ball and send it back somewhere else instead of merely surviving it.
Matteo Berrettini, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Jan-Lennard Struff and Barbora Krejcikova all put their names to it.
Regina, then. I remember going up the steps of the Legislative Building the year it was finished — 1912, lovely afternoon, everyone in hats. And in 1961 they handed the parkland to Minoru Yamasaki, who laid out nine square kilometres of it around the lake. He said everything does.
I told him it would look better in fifty years.
"Mass is what lets you send a heavy ball somewhere else instead of merely surviving it."
