Let us be honest with one another: most tennis bags are luggage. This one is an entrance. The Tour M carries a reflective panel across the top — genuinely reflective, catching every headlight in the car park — and I did not ask for that, but I am not going to pretend I dislike it.
Now, the substance, because I am nothing if not thorough. Six racquets. Two spacious main compartments, and one of them is lined with CCT+ climate control, which insulates your frames against heat and cold. You may do as you wish. Forty litres in total, measuring 76.5 by 33 by 26 centimetres.
I keep the strung ones in there.
Two large external accessory pockets, one to a side, plus an external phone pocket for immediate access, which matters when one's phone is as busy as mine. Top handles and a full backpack carry system, so the bag may be worn or carried according to the occasion.
An inside zipper pocket for the small things.
Outer fabric is 85 per cent polyester and 15 per cent PU; the lining runs 70 per cent polyester and 30 per cent TPE. Style 260226, in black, blue, orange, pink or purple.
And it will be photographed in Baalbek, because Baalbek does not do modest. The six standing columns of the Temple of Jupiter are twenty metres tall and there were originally more than fifty of them, and even the six that remain make every other ruin in the world look like it is trying.
You will carry this everywhere from a league fixture to a full tournament week, and it is also perfect for a summer evening at the festival they hold among those columns, where an orchestra plays under floodlights against two thousand years of stonework and everybody, quite rightly, dresses for it.
Six racquets, two compartments, and a bag that reflects light. As one should.
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