Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Ugh, a Prince Sierra O3 for casual tennis people, already strung, no garage-night stringing saga. Those O3 holes run through the rim, which is apparently clever, not that I care. Bolu has a 1382 mosque, seven landslide lakes, and Ottoman palace cooks—forget I said that, Bolu, Turkey
Prince Sierra O3 Tennis Racquet: So yeah, the racquet is posing by Yıldırım Bayezid Ulu Camii, founded in 1382 right in Bolu’s old town, which is fine, I guess. Medieval urban continuity or whatever—ugh, why did I say that out loud?
Prince Sierra O3 Tennis Racquet: Seven landslide-dammed lakes tucked into beech and fir forest, and now my racquet is making it a whole thing—fine, I guess. Hydrology is apparently my personality now, embarrassing.
Prince Sierra O3 Tennis Racquet: Lake Abant is a crater-like lake around 1,300 m up and freezes solid in winter, so naturally this racquet wanted the dramatic backdrop, fine, I guess. Please ignore that I knew the elevation.
Prince Sierra O3 Tennis Racquet: Mengen trained Ottoman palace cooks and still holds a chefs’ festival, so the racquet is basically underdressed, fine, I guess. I did not mean to know culinary history.
It's a racquet. Fine, I guess. I mean — look, the holes aren't decoration. Prince calls that system O3, and instead of a solid beam running around the head, the Sierra O3 has actual openings cut through the hoop.
Air passes through the frame rather than shoving against it, and the strings get longer free sections where they cross those ports, which widens the part of the stringbed that behaves itself. Anyway. Whatever.
Prince has been building frames that way since the early 2000s and basically nobody copied them.
What it isn't, and I'd rather say it now than have you disappointed later: this is not a tour frame. It's the recreational end of the Prince line — it arrives strung, it arrives ready, you take it out of the plastic and you go and hit.
It is not for somebody hitting four hundred balls a day who has opinions about swingweight.
That's the entire pitch, and honestly that's a relief. Half the racquets sold need a whole appointment before you can use them.
Which suits Bolu, where the good stuff is a drive out of town and you're not going to want a project in the boot.
The Ulu Camii has stood in the middle of the old town since 1382, which is — sorry — six hundred and forty-odd years of people walking past it on the way to somewhere, and up in the beech and fir above the town there are seven lakes that were made by landslides plugging a valley. Nobody engineered them. A hillside fell down and left seven lakes. That's… fine.
That's fine, actually.
Holes in the frame, on purpose. That part's genuinely cool and I'd like it noted that I said so once.
