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cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — the Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets) combined with the national flag of Serbia
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, A vast low bastioned fortress spread across a rock bluff on the right bank of the Danube, facing the city across the river: angled earth and brick ramparts, dry ditches, sloping revetments and long ranges of barracks with red-tiled roofs, all kept deliberately low. On the highest terrace stands a squat baroque clock tower, cream with a black roof, whose clock face is read the wrong way round because the long hand shows hours and the short hand minutes
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — The Name of Mary Church in Novi Sad, A tall neo-Gothic church of red-brown brick on Liberty Square, with a single steep tower about 76 metres high rising directly from the main facade, pointed arched windows and buttresses, and a steeply pitched roof covered in patterned glazed tiles in green, yellow and red. It closes the north side of the square and is the highest thing in the city centre
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — Novi Sad City Hall in Novi Sad, A long symmetrical neo-Renaissance palace on the south side of Liberty Square, rendered in pale yellow with a rusticated ground floor, arched windows, and a central tower with a clock and a small open belfry. Allegorical figures stand along the roofline. It faces the brick church across the open paved square, with a bronze statue of Svetozar Miletic between them
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — The Bishop's Palace (Vladicanski dvor) in Novi Sad, An ornate red-brick palace at the end of Zmaj Jovina Street, its facade patterned in bands of contrasting brick and glazed ceramic, with round-arched windows, a heavy projecting cornice and a small domed corner turret. It stands directly beside the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George, closing the view down the pedestrian street from Liberty Square
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — the Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets) combined with the national flag of Serbia

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets)

Novi Sad, Serbia  ·  Bags > 4-9

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets)

This is the nine-racquet working case: two thermally lined compartments, a hold that isolates wet kit, backpack straps, and not one item in it without a reason. Preparation beats chasing. It has already located Petrovaradin Fortress and it will walk you round Novi Sad before a single frame comes out.

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Four stops before the checkout

Novi Sad, Serbia
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cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, A vast low bastioned fortress spread across a rock bluff on the right bank of the Danube, facing the city across the river: angled earth and brick ramparts, dry ditches, sloping revetments and long ranges of barracks with red-tiled roofs, all kept deliberately low. On the highest terrace stands a squat baroque clock tower, cream with a black roof, whose clock face is read the wrong way round because the long hand shows hours and the short hand minutes
Stop one

Petrovaradin Fortress

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets): GREATEST FORTRESS IN EUROPE. I said it, I meant it. The Habsburgs started it in 1692 after taking Petrovaradin from the Ottomans and kept building for most of the next century, ending up with one of the largest surviving bastioned fortresses on the continent AND roughly sixteen kilometres of underground galleries and counter-mine tunnels beneath our feet. Sixteen kilometres! Under us! And the clock — the clock — its hour hand was made oversized so boatmen on the Danube could read the time from the water, and it runs fast in summer heat and slow in winter cold, so everyone calls it the drunken clock. THE DRUNKEN CLOCK. Since 2000 this has been the site of the EXIT music festival. We are not leaving. Somebody get a round in.

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cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — The Name of Mary Church in Novi Sad, A tall neo-Gothic church of red-brown brick on Liberty Square, with a single steep tower about 76 metres high rising directly from the main facade, pointed arched windows and buttresses, and a steeply pitched roof covered in patterned glazed tiles in green, yellow and red. It closes the north side of the square and is the highest thing in the city centre
Stop two

The Name of Mary Church

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets): LOOK AT THAT ROOF. Look at it! Built 1893 to 1895 to the design of György Molnár, replacing an earlier parish church, and it is the largest church in Novi Sad and the Roman Catholic parish church of the city. Those tiles are Zsolnay ceramic from Pécs — the same Hungarian factory whose tiles cover half the landmarks of Budapest — and the interior glass came out of a Budapest workshop. It faces the City Hall dead-on across Liberty Square, the two buildings raised within a year of each other by the same architect. Absolute power move. Best square in the country and I say that having seen several. There are cafés on three sides. Choose one. Choose quickly.

03
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — Novi Sad City Hall in Novi Sad, A long symmetrical neo-Renaissance palace on the south side of Liberty Square, rendered in pale yellow with a rusticated ground floor, arched windows, and a central tower with a clock and a small open belfry. Allegorical figures stand along the roofline. It faces the brick church across the open paved square, with a bronze statue of Svetozar Miletic between them
Stop three

Novi Sad City Hall

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets): SAME GUY. Same guy who did the church! György Molnár, 1894, and he modelled it closely on the town hall of Graz, with external allegorical sculpture by Julije Anika. Novi Sad had been granted the status of free royal city by Empress Maria Theresa in 1748 — an EMPRESS personally signed this town off, which is the single greatest reference anybody here has ever had — and this building became the seat of that municipal government. The square in front has been the civic centre ever since and it is still where the whole city turns out for everything. Everything! I love it here. I am moving here. Someone stop me, or better, do not.

04
cardio tennis class Tarpon Bend — The Bishop's Palace (Vladicanski dvor) in Novi Sad, An ornate red-brick palace at the end of Zmaj Jovina Street, its facade patterned in bands of contrasting brick and glazed ceramic, with round-arched windows, a heavy projecting cornice and a small domed corner turret. It stands directly beside the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George, closing the view down the pedestrian street from Liberty Square
Stop four

The Bishop's Palace (Vladicanski dvor)

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets): Completed 1901, designed by Vladimir Nikolić in the Serbian-Byzantine manner then being developed as a national style for Serbian Orthodox institutions in the Habsburg lands, and it is the seat of the Bishop of Bačka. Now here is the fact that belongs on a T-shirt: in the nineteenth century Novi Sad was the principal centre of Serbian cultural and religious life north of the Danube, and they called it THE SERBIAN ATHENS. ATHENS. The palace belongs to the same building campaign that produced the cathedral right next to it. Right — that is four stops, we have done the culture properly, and the night is objectively young. Who is coming?

The Novi Sad, Serbia track

Wilson Blade V10 Tennis Bag (9 Racquets)

Written for this world alone.

I do not chase. Chasing is for people who did not prepare. I find out where the thing is, I go there once, and I bring it back. Everything I own fits in one bag and every item in that bag has a reason.

Nine racquets is the professional number and the Wilson Blade V10 9-pack is built around it. Two main compartments hold the frames, both thermally lined — and that lining is doing real work, because heat in a car boot is what actually kills your string tension and softens your grips between matches.

A separate ventilated compartment takes shoes and damp kit so it is not breathing on your frames. Accessory pockets handle grips, dampeners, balls, keys and a phone. Padded backpack straps come as standard alongside the shoulder strap, which you will want the first time you carry it loaded any real distance.

It is the size for a serious competitive player or a coach who does not need fifteen — big enough to hold everything for a tournament day, small enough to still fit in a normal car.

Novi Sad has one very large object that nobody has ever managed to sneak up on. The Habsburgs began Petrovaradin Fortress in 1692 after taking it from the Ottomans and kept building for most of the following century, producing one of the largest surviving bastioned fortresses in Europe, with roughly sixteen kilometres of tunnels underneath it.

In the town below: the Name of Mary Church, built 1893-95 to György Molnár's design, the largest in the city, roofed in Zsolnay ceramic tiles; the City Hall of 1894, also Molnár, closely modelled on the town hall of Graz; and the Bishop's Palace, completed in 1901 to Vladimir Nikolić's design in the Serbian-Byzantine manner.

You will carry it everywhere from a covered court in February to the fortress grounds in July when the whole town is awake for four days straight, and it is also perfect for the climb up to that clock, whose hour hand was built oversized so boatmen on the Danube could read the time from the water.

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