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cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set and the national flag of Russia, the country of Chelyabinsk, composed by the model into a single photoreal still life. The white, blue and red horizontal bands fill the frame as taut fabric behind the coiled natural-coloured multifilament set and its packet, cold northern light raking across the weave, no people and no lettering.
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed in the meteorite hall of the State Historical Museum of the South Urals on the Miass riverbank in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. The pitted black half-tonne fragment of the 2013 meteorite sits in its lit glass case; a school party in unzipped winter coats presses at the rail mid-morning while their teacher counts heads and a guide points up at the projection of the airburst, flat grey January light in the tall windows behind. The string set lies unnoticed on the ledge of the rail.
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the Traktorozavodsky district of Chelyabinsk, Russia. Dawn shift change at the monumental gates below the constructivist administrative block: hundreds of workers in quilted jackets and hard hats streaming out under sodium floodlights into hard low orange sun, buses idling with their exhaust hanging, breath and steam everywhere, snow trodden to grey ice. The string set rests on a concrete bollard by the gatehouse window.
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed close on Kirovka pedestrian street in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. Warm golden-hour summer evening, tight framing on the worn bronze beggar figure with his hand rubbed bright, two children climbing onto the plinth while a parent laughs behind them, a busker with an accordion just out of focus, restored ochre and cream merchant facades and cafe awnings compressed behind. The string set sits on the granite plinth edge beside the bronze, entirely ignored.
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed on Revolution Square in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. Night, heavy snow falling through the floodlights on the bronze Lenin monument on its granite plinth; a municipal loader with its blade down works the far side of the square, people cut diagonally across the drifts with hoods up, a tram passes behind throwing light on the monumental civic facades, everything blue-black except the sodium pools. The string set sits on a cleared bench arm in the foreground under a dusting of snow.
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set and the national flag of Russia, the country of Chelyabinsk, composed by the model into a single photoreal still life. The white, blue and red horizontal bands fill the frame as taut fabric behind the coiled natural-coloured multifilament set and its packet, cold northern light raking across the weave, no people and no lettering.

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set

Chelyabinsk, Russia  ·  Strings > 16g

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set

This is a 985-filament multifilament with a monofilament spine — plush, deep-pocketing and far tougher than a soft string has any right to be. Before you pay for it, it wants you to walk Chelyabinsk with it, because somebody built that city, and nobody has ever written down who built it.

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Four stops before the checkout

Chelyabinsk, Russia
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cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed in the meteorite hall of the State Historical Museum of the South Urals on the Miass riverbank in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. The pitted black half-tonne fragment of the 2013 meteorite sits in its lit glass case; a school party in unzipped winter coats presses at the rail mid-morning while their teacher counts heads and a guide points up at the projection of the airburst, flat grey January light in the tall windows behind. The string set lies unnoticed on the ledge of the rail.
Stop one

State Historical Museum of the South Urals

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set: Sorry — I will be quick, and you can walk on whenever you like. The fifteenth of February, 2013. A rock came into the atmosphere over this city and detonated in the air, so there is no crater, which is the thing everybody expects and it simply is not there. It was the shockwave. It blew out windows right across the region and well over a thousand people were hurt, almost all of them by flying glass, and I do not think I should make anything of that beyond saying it plainly. Sorry. In the October afterwards they raised the largest fragment out of Lake Chebarkul, and that is it, there, in the case — roughly half a tonne of it — and when they went to weigh it, it broke the scales. It broke the scales they were weighing it on. I have never known what to do with that detail. It just sits there. I will stop. Unless — no. That is the whole of it. Thank you for staying.

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cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the Traktorozavodsky district of Chelyabinsk, Russia. Dawn shift change at the monumental gates below the constructivist administrative block: hundreds of workers in quilted jackets and hard hats streaming out under sodium floodlights into hard low orange sun, buses idling with their exhaust hanging, breath and steam everywhere, snow trodden to grey ice. The string set rests on a concrete bollard by the gatehouse window.
Stop two

Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set: This one is very large and I am not, so — sorry, I will try. It opened in 1933 to make tractors. Only tractors. Then the war came, and entire factories were evacuated here from Leningrad and from Kharkiv and bolted straight onto this one, and the city ended up with a name of its own: Tankograd. Tank city. They compressed the production cycle for a tank down and down and down, because it had to come down. I know the output figures exist, and I would rather tell you who was standing at the benches. Much of that workforce was women and teenagers, through Ural winters, in shifts nobody would agree to now. None of that appears in the production totals at all. It is not recorded anywhere I could actually point you to. Sorry — I realise that is not a satisfying place for a fact to end. I did warn you I trail off. You have been very patient with me.

03
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed close on Kirovka pedestrian street in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. Warm golden-hour summer evening, tight framing on the worn bronze beggar figure with his hand rubbed bright, two children climbing onto the plinth while a parent laughs behind them, a busker with an accordion just out of focus, restored ochre and cream merchant facades and cafe awnings compressed behind. The string set sits on the granite plinth edge beside the bronze, entirely ignored.
Stop three

Kirovka pedestrian street

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set: Oh, this one is nice, actually — sorry, that is not a very expert thing to say. It is a pedestrian street, restored, and there are life-size bronze figures set along it: a beggar, a scholar, a coachman, and others. People stop and photograph themselves with them, and everybody rubs the beggar, and I do rather wish they would not, though I would never say so to anyone's face. The buildings are the part I would quietly point at, if you will let me. Nineteenth-century merchant houses, pre-revolutionary, exactly the sort of thing that in most cities was knocked flat without any discussion at all. Making the street pedestrian is what saved the fronts of them. A decision about paving turned out to be a decision about whether those facades got to go on existing. I do not suppose anyone framed it that way at the time. Sorry, I have talked longer than I meant to. I will walk behind you.

04
cardio tennis class Lauderdale Manors — the Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set photographed on Revolution Square in central Chelyabinsk, Russia. Night, heavy snow falling through the floodlights on the bronze Lenin monument on its granite plinth; a municipal loader with its blade down works the far side of the square, people cut diagonally across the drifts with hoods up, a tram passes behind throwing light on the monumental civic facades, everything blue-black except the sodium pools. The string set sits on a cleared bench arm in the foreground under a dusting of snow.
Stop four

Revolution Square

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set: Sorry — do stand back a little, you cannot really take it in from close up. It is enormous. Soviet cities were laid out with parade squares at precisely this scale, deliberately, so that the space would be equal to the occasions it was built for, and those occasions came a handful of days a year. The rest of the time it is this: granite, air, and a great deal of both, in a very cold place. The Lenin monument on the granite plinth went up in the 1950s. I find I do not have a strong opinion I am willing to offer you about it, and I hope that is all right. What I do notice, and this is only me, is that the civic buildings around the edge were all designed to be looked at from the middle of an empty space, and now people simply cut across the diagonal on their way somewhere else. I think that is the nicer use. Sorry. There is a bench. I will be quiet now.

The Chelyabinsk, Russia track

Tecnifibre Multifeel 16g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Multifeel is a multifilament built around a spine, and the construction is worth knowing before anyone sells you on the word feel. Nine hundred and eighty-five composite filaments make up 60% of the string's volume, wrapped around a single central monofilament that accounts for another 20%, with polyurethane filling the remaining 20%. The filaments do the comfort.

The core is the part that stops a multifilament going soft and stringy in its third week — and it is the part nobody credits, which is a habit worth breaking.

The numbers. 16 gauge, 1.30 mm, round profile, no shaping, sold in Natural and in Black. The set is 12 m / 40 ft, one racquet. Over the top goes Tecnifibre's Lubritec treatment — Silicone Pyrogene — which cuts the sawing where the crosses pass the mains, and that is the entire reason a bed this soft survives a full week of hitting.

On court it gives deep ball pocketing, a dampened response and a genuinely arm-friendly stringbed: the string you fit when a stiff frame needs talking down or an elbow needs a rest. Chelyabinsk understands work that is kind to the people doing it.

This is the city that absorbed whole factories evacuated from Leningrad and Kharkiv in 1941 and ran its Tractor Plant from 25,000 workers up to 60,000 by 1944 — and got called Tankograd for it, a nickname that credits the tanks rather than the teenagers and women on the twelve-hour shifts.

You'll use this everywhere from a club court by the Miass to an indoor hall in Yekaterinburg, two hundred kilometres north.

And by the way, it suits a city that takes pelmeni and the banya as seriously as it takes its steel: a dampened stringbed is what lets you play at six, steam at eight and still hold a fork.

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