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cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo and the flag of Morocco combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The deep red field fills the frame with the open green five-pointed interlaced star centred on it, drawn as five continuous branches rather than a solid shape, the cloth lit from one side so the interlacing stays readable through the folds, and the polo is composed into the arrangement so its collar line runs against the lower points of the star, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at the Atlas Lion stone carving in Ifrane, Morocco. A life-size lion carved lying down out of one enormous block of pale rock, standing on the ground in a public park with red-roofed chalets behind. Camera near ground level looking up along a worn stone step, early morning raking light in autumn with frost still on the grass: a family queuing to photograph a small boy beside the lion, a grandmother directing the shot with both hands, a park keeper raking leaves off the path, a jogger going through behind. The polo is laid folded on the step in the near foreground, nobody wearing, holding or using it, and no mannequin in frame.
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. A campus of pitched red-roofed stone buildings on a hillside above the town, lawns and walkways between them and cedar woodland behind. Eye level straight on in bright hard midday sun in late spring: students crossing the quad in a steady stream between classes, a group sprawled on the grass around an open laptop, two men setting out chairs for an outdoor event, a football rolling loose across the lawn with someone jogging after it. The polo is laid flat over the back of a stone bench in the middle distance to one side, untouched and unworn.
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at Ifrane National Park in Ifrane, Morocco. High cedar-forested plateau rolling away between 1,300 and 2,400 metres with a shallow Ramsar lake lying in a basin among the trees. Elevated camera looking down, wide, the forest and the lake dominating and the product small in frame, golden hour in September with the light coming low across the cedar crowns: a shepherd bringing a flock down to the water, waterfowl lifting off the lake in a long ragged line, two birdwatchers set up with a scope on the rise, a mule track carrying a rider along the far shore. The polo is laid over a fallen cedar log at the edge of frame, nobody near it.
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed in the Cèdre Gouraud Forest at Ifrane, Morocco. Enormous Atlas cedars with wide flat crowns and deeply fissured trunks, open ground beneath them, troops of Barbary macaques along the forest track. Close and intimate with shallow depth of field, snow falling at dusk with the light nearly gone: a vendor at a small brazier selling roasted nuts to a handful of visitors, macaques hunched on a low branch with snow settling on their shoulders, a woman crouching to photograph one at a distance, headlights swinging through the trunks as a car comes down the track. The polo is laid folded on a snow-dusted timber rail in mid-frame with the cedars soft behind it, nobody wearing or touching it.
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo and the flag of Morocco combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The deep red field fills the frame with the open green five-pointed interlaced star centred on it, drawn as five continuous branches rather than a solid shape, the cloth lit from one side so the interlacing stays readable through the folds, and the polo is composed into the arrangement so its collar line runs against the lower points of the star, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Nike Court Slam Men’s Tennis Polo

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Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo

Camera check: jacquard court top with four-way give, sleeve seams shifted forward from the joint—you clock it at take 100 of the service motion; team, are we getting this? It won't join cart until cedar forest, macaques and a stone lion get angles. #ThisIsGiving Ifrane, Morocco

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Ifrane, Morocco
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cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at the Atlas Lion stone carving in Ifrane, Morocco. A life-size lion carved lying down out of one enormous block of pale rock, standing on the ground in a public park with red-roofed chalets behind. Camera near ground level looking up along a worn stone step, early morning raking light in autumn with frost still on the grass: a family queuing to photograph a small boy beside the lion, a grandmother directing the shot with both hands, a park keeper raking leaves off the path, a jogger going through behind. The polo is laid folded on the step in the near foreground, nobody wearing, holding or using it, and no mannequin in frame.
Stop one

Atlas Lion Stone Sculpture (Ifrane Lion)

Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo: Okay the light here is INSANE, everyone get this. The stone lion of Ifrane, carved from a single block — one block, no seams, that is the content right there — is the emblem of this Middle Atlas hill town and its most photographed monument. Most photographed. I did not set that record but I fully intend to contribute. Its origins are debated, which is giving mystery, and mystery performs: one enduring account holds that a German prisoner carved it during the Second World War, when Ifrane briefly held prisoners of war, reputedly in exchange for his freedom, while another attributes it to a French sculptor working in the 1930s. Two origin stories, zero receipts. The lion is widely understood to commemorate the Atlas lion, the great North African subspecies whose last wild individuals were shot in the region in the early 20th century — and that is not a caption, that one you just sit with for a second. Whatever its authorship, it has watched over Ifrane's lawns since the French-era town's early decades.

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cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. A campus of pitched red-roofed stone buildings on a hillside above the town, lawns and walkways between them and cedar woodland behind. Eye level straight on in bright hard midday sun in late spring: students crossing the quad in a steady stream between classes, a group sprawled on the grass around an open laptop, two men setting out chairs for an outdoor event, a football rolling loose across the lawn with someone jogging after it. The polo is laid flat over the back of a stone bench in the middle distance to one side, untouched and unworn.
Stop two

Royal Palace of Ifrane

Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo: This is giving Alps and I am obsessed. Ifrane was established in 1928 by the French Protectorate administration as a hill station where European residents could escape the summer heat, laid out with chalets, gardens and steep-roofed alpine architecture unique in Morocco — an entire town built as an aesthetic, in 1928, before any of us were doing that. As part of the new resort, a royal palace was built in the 1930s for Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, the future King Mohammed V, serving as a mountain residence and hunting lodge at more than 1,600 metres of altitude. Sixteen hundred metres. The palace remains a residence of the Moroccan royal family and is closed to visitors, so no, we are not doing a walkthrough, phones down, we shoot from exactly here. But its green-tiled roofs among the cedars, often under winter snow, are the entire reason they call this the Switzerland of Morocco. Green, white, dark green. That is a palette.

03
cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed at Ifrane National Park in Ifrane, Morocco. High cedar-forested plateau rolling away between 1,300 and 2,400 metres with a shallow Ramsar lake lying in a basin among the trees. Elevated camera looking down, wide, the forest and the lake dominating and the product small in frame, golden hour in September with the light coming low across the cedar crowns: a shepherd bringing a flock down to the water, waterfowl lifting off the lake in a long ragged line, two birdwatchers set up with a scope on the rise, a mule track carrying a rider along the far shore. The polo is laid over a fallen cedar log at the edge of frame, nobody near it.
Stop three

Al Akhawayn University

Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo: Campus content, and campus content always performs. Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane was founded by royal decree in 1993 and opened its doors to students in January 1995. Its name, meaning the two brothers, honours its founding benefactors, King Hassan II of Morocco and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who endowed the project jointly — a collab between two kings, and the naming on it is immaculate, no notes. The university is organised on the American liberal-arts model with English as the language of instruction, a novelty in the Moroccan system, and its steep-roofed campus architecture echoes the alpine style of the surrounding town, so the whole place matches, and you have no idea how rare that is. Drawing students from across Morocco, Africa and beyond, it has made the small mountain resort of Ifrane an international university town at the edge of the cedar forests. Golden hour on those roofs. Saving that one.

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cardio tennis 33305 — the Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo photographed in the Cèdre Gouraud Forest at Ifrane, Morocco. Enormous Atlas cedars with wide flat crowns and deeply fissured trunks, open ground beneath them, troops of Barbary macaques along the forest track. Close and intimate with shallow depth of field, snow falling at dusk with the light nearly gone: a vendor at a small brazier selling roasted nuts to a handful of visitors, macaques hunched on a low branch with snow settling on their shoulders, a woman crouching to photograph one at a distance, headlights swinging through the trunks as a car comes down the track. The polo is laid folded on a snow-dusted timber rail in mid-frame with the cedars soft behind it, nobody wearing or touching it.
Stop four

Ifrane National Park

Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo: Nature carousel, swipe through, this is the good part of the trip. Ifrane National Park, established in 2004, protects the forests and plateaus of the Middle Atlas around the town of Ifrane, including some of the world's most important stands of Atlas cedar, the great conifer emblematic of Morocco's mountains. The park shelters the largest remaining populations of the Barbary macaque, the endangered monkey endemic to North Africa and Gibraltar — endangered, so we look, we do not feed, we do not pose with them, that is the whole rule and it is not negotiable — along with wild boar, raptors, and seasonal wetland lakes such as Dayet Aoua that attract migratory birds. Within and around the park stood famous individual trees such as the Gouraud Cedar, long a visitor attraction. A single tree with a following. Respect. The park makes Ifrane a base for hiking, birdwatching and winter snow excursions in cedar country. Four seasons, one location, genuinely no filter.

The Ifrane, Morocco track

Nike Court Slam Men's Tennis Polo

Written for this world alone.

One hundred per cent polyester, in a jacquard knit with a smooth hand and four-way stretch, carrying Nike's Dri-FIT ADV moisture management. Lightweight, breathable, and engineered so it does not cling when it gets wet — which, I ask you, is the only quality that actually matters in a shirt once the second set starts.

The construction is where this one earns its place in the bag. The sleeve seams have been moved forward onto the front of the shoulder so they follow the curve of the arm rather than sitting on the joint, which is a small thing until you have served two hundred times.

The back panel is engineered separately for airflow.

Ribbed cuffs, and an extended hem at the back so it stays where you put it when you bend for a low ball.

Ifrane is an extraordinary place to test a shirt, and nobody warned me how extraordinary.

It is a town of red-roofed alpine chalets over 1,650 metres up in the Middle Atlas, built by the French administration in 1928 as a hill station, with cedar forest and Barbary macaques on three sides — and it holds the continental record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in Africa, minus 23.9 degrees, on the eleventh of February 1935.

Then in July it is warm and dry and brilliant. You will use this everywhere from a morning court under the cedars at Ifrane to a hard afternoon on the coast at Casablanca, and by the way — it is also perfect for the mint tea afterwards, poured from a height into a glass on a terrace, which in Morocco is not a refreshment but an appointment.

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