Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis String Set
About Rožaje
This mountain town stands on the upper Ibar River, close to the roads leading toward Serbia and Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of its municipality and has long been a market town for the surrounding highland villages, with a largely Bosniak population.
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Poly Tour Pro is a round co-polyester monofilament, pre-stretched by Yonex during manufacture, and that pre-stretch is the whole reason it maintains tension the way it does.
Polyester continues to elongate under load once it is in the frame; taking that movement out at the factory means the bed stops sagging and starts holding.
Static stiffness of around 0.9 kg/mm makes it firm and control-forward.
This is the 18 gauge, the finest string in the range, sold as one 12 metre set for a single frame. At 1.15 mm the string cuts deepest into the ball, so bite and spin are at their maximum, and the life is short and honest.
It is the choice of a player who wants shape on the ball more than months of service, and it is the wrong choice for anyone who breaks strings regularly.
Rožaje sits at around a thousand metres in the mountains of north-east Montenegro, where the season is short and cold, and thin gauge is the usual way to keep feel in a polyester bed when the air is cold enough to stiffen it further.
Specifications
| Gauge | 18, 1.15 mm |
|---|---|
| Construction | Round co-polyester monofilament |
| Process | Pre-stretched during manufacture |
| Static stiffness | Approximately 0.9 kg/mm |
| Set length | 12 m |
| Characteristics | Maximum bite and spin, firm, control-forward |
| Not recommended for | Frequent string breakers |
It sits at one end of the Poly Tour Pro range, opposite the durable 16 gauge, and the single set is the honest format for a string with a short working life.
LET Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis String Set SHOW YOU Rožaje
String: Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis Strings Set: You are fortunate I stopped here at all. The kula was built in 1797 as a fortified residential tower, the traditional type of the region, and belonged to the Ganić family — a name that carries weight here, and I do not say that of everyone. It is the symbol of the town and appears on the official coat of arms of the municipality of Rožaje. It stands a couple of minutes from the main square, which suits me. It now houses the ethnographic museum: local costume, crafts, household objects. Charming, in the way a thing becomes charming once it has been properly looked at. By me.
String: Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis Strings Set: Now we are moving in my circles. The foundation is dated to 1450 and attributed to the Ottoman sultan Murad II — Murad, yes, that Murad — built at the same time as the nearby fortress. It has been worked on repeatedly since: reconstructed by the Islamic Council in 1967, and in 2005 the Turkish ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro provided sixty-five thousand euros towards a further reconstruction, completed in 2008. An ambassador. Personally. And it is the largest mosque in Montenegro, which is naturally the one I would choose.
String: Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis Strings Set: Rožaje sits at about a thousand metres in the north-east of Montenegro, in the source area of the Ibar, and the river divides the town — the whole settlement arranged around water I am now looking at. The Ibar rises in the mountains immediately around here and runs north into Serbia to join the West Morava, which makes this the head of one of the major river systems of the Balkans. The head of it. Everything downstream begins roughly where I am standing. Its position in a high mountain basin is also why it has long been a crossing point between Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.
String: Yonex Polytour Pro 18g Tennis Strings Set: Two thousand four hundred and three metres, the dominant mountain of the district, and it has waited a very long time for somebody with an eye. Its meadows are so rich in plants that the massif is commonly described as a botanical garden among the mountains — commonly described, note; even the locals reach for a compliment. It sits on the boundary between the Montenegrin and Kosovan sides of the Prokletije range and is the main walking and pasture country for the town below. A mountain of that quality really ought to be photographed with someone distinguished in the foreground. I am available.
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