Right — hello — sorry, let me start properly. This is the Sonicage, in the women's all-court version, and I have the notes here so I am going to get this right. Power Cushion+ in the midsole: that is the cushioning that absorbs impact and returns some of the energy into your next step.
Hyper MSLite: that is the lightweight midsole material — sorry, midsole, not outsole, that was my mistake and it matters. A rounded sole so the foot rolls through the step smoothly. Power Graphite Sheet for support, Toe Assist Shape at the front, Double Raschel Mesh for breathability.
Durable Skin Light on the upper for abrasion resistance.
Standard fit, around 275 grams in a 24.5 centimetre, all-court outsole. Four colourways: white and grey, dark green, smoke pink, and black mocha grey.
And the useful thing — the thing I genuinely did not know two weeks ago — is what "all-court" means in practice. It means the outsole is a compromise, deliberately: durable enough for hard courts, patterned well enough to work on other surfaces, and not optimised entirely for either.
If you play on one surface only, a specialist shoe will beat it there.
If you play on whatever is free that evening, like most people, this is the one that works every time. That is not a downgrade. I asked. It is the point.
Safi is where we are going and I have been reading about it all week, which I am aware is very obvious. It is a working Atlantic port — sardines, a huge fishing fleet — and it is also the pottery city of Morocco. There is a whole hillside of kilns, the Colline des Potiers, which has been a listed monument since 1920, and the smoke comes up out of the ground from the firings.
And there is a Portuguese sea fort built right out onto the water in the 1500s. A fort in the sea. I had to check that twice. It is genuinely a fort in the sea.
The outsole is a compromise on purpose. I did not know that a fortnight ago and now I tell everybody.
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