Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
The kindest frame in the cupboard for a sore elbow. 295 grams with a great deal of the mass down in the handle, and a foam-filled tube softening every ball; but first, sweetheart, La Laguna — and eat something while you are there.
Head Squared Tennis Racquet: Sweetheart, here you are in Plaza del Adelantado, with the town hall and Nava Palace nearby, looking so proper I’d press your shirt if you had one. My cousin says a square named for the Adelantado deserves a good sit-down, and also maybe a little sandwich before tennis.
Head Squared Tennis Racquet: Oh sweetheart, posing by the Iglesia de la Concepción, the first parish church built on the island, you’re making your grandmother misty. My cousin would say, ‘Serve gently near history,’ and then worry you hadn’t had soup.
Head Squared Tennis Racquet: Sweetheart, that cathedral façade from 1819 is neoclassical, which means it stands up straight and minds its manners, unlike your Uncle Paco at weddings. Hold the racquet proudly, but not so proudly you forget to hydrate.
Head Squared Tennis Racquet: Ay sweetheart, at Santo Domingo de Guzmán, where the corsair Amaro Pargo lies buried, even a tennis racquet should use its indoor voice. My cousin says pirates, corsairs, and athletes all perform better after a sensible lunch.
Come here, sit down, let me see your arm. That is what I thought. Now listen to me, because this racquet was made for people who have been playing on something too stiff for years and have started calling it 'just my elbow'.
The Squared is built around a thing called Dual Tube Technology, and I will explain it the way my cousin's boy explained it to me: most frames have one tube inside them. This one has two.
The outer one is a T800 carbon fibre tube, which gives it the power and the stability.
The inner one is filled with foam, and that is the one that takes the harshness out before it ever reaches your hand.
The rest of it, so you know what you are holding. A 100 square inch head, 645 square centimetres, the standard 27 inches. Now here is the number that makes it special: fifteen points head light, at 295 mm. Fifteen.
Ten point four ounces — 295 grams unstrung.
Most frames sit at seven or eight, so this one carries almost all its weight in the handle, which is why it swings like something half its size. Swingweight 287. The beam runs 23 / 25 / 24 mm, the flex is a soft 62, and the pattern is an open 16 by 18 — a power pattern, they call it, because the strings move more and give the ball more. Tension 48 to 57 pounds.
Directional drilling widens the sweet spot. Style 232206.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna will look after you, too. It was the first unwalled town on the island and they laid the streets out on a plan that half the cities across the water were later copied from, which is the sort of thing a place does and then never mentions again.
You will use this racquet everywhere from a gentle morning group to a long social doubles that goes to a third set, and it is also perfect for what comes afterwards — papas arrugadas with the wrinkled skins still on and a bowl of mojo, and yes, you will have some, I have already ordered.
A soft frame is not a weak frame, my love. It is a frame that wants you playing next year.
