Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Three hundred and fifteen grams unstrung, 98 square inches, a 16×19 pattern on a slim 23 mm beam with silicone-oil-infused grommets — the heavy spin-and-control frame, and it demands you bring your own engine. Ruby red. Pack properly; Irbid has four stops and one of them looks across at another country.
Yonex Vcore 98 Tour: Okay, I packed an extra wristband specifically in case I needed to wipe sweat off my hands while reading museum placards — don't judge me. Dar As-Saraya was actually an Ottoman-era government house and prison before it became Irbid's main archaeological museum, which honestly sounds like a supply-chain nightmare in its own right. I brought granola bars if anyone needs one.
Yonex Vcore 98 Tour: I brought two flashlights because painted tombs are exactly the kind of place where one flashlight battery dies and you are left alone in the dark with ancient Romans — I've thought about this. Beit Ras was the Decapolis city of Capitolias, founded around 97–98 CE, and its painted tomb is one of the most remarkable funerary monuments in the whole region. Trail mix, anyone? I have four bags.
Yonex Vcore 98 Tour: I packed a windbreaker, a backup windbreaker, and a space blanket because hilltop ruins above three countries feel like exactly the moment you under-dress and regret everything. From Umm Qais — ancient Gadara — you can actually see Jordan, Israel, and Syria simultaneously, which means triple the potential weather systems and I am PREPARED. Sunscreen? I brought SPF 50 and SPF 100, take your pick.
Yonex Vcore 98 Tour: I made a laminated list of every item available in this souq before we arrived because the last thing you want is to need something and not know which stall carries it — that is a rookie mistake. Wasfi al-Tal Street is named after a former Jordanian prime minister, which means this market has serious historical gravitas and also sells excellent fresh produce that I cannot risk running out of. I already bought backup figs, here, I brought enough for the whole group.
Right — before anything else, have you got a spare? Because this is a frame you will want two of, and I say that as someone who has never once regretted bringing the second of anything.
Three hundred and fifteen grams unstrung, which is 11.1 ounces, a 98 square inch head, a 16 by 19 open pattern, and a slim beam of 23 to 23 to 21 millimetres. Recommended tension 45 to 60 pounds. Grips G2 to G4. Ruby red.
The Vcore 98 Tour is the heavy one.
The construction is high-modulus graphite with 2G-Namd Flex Force and Yonex's damping mesh in the handle, with silicone-oil-infused grommets so the strings can slide and snap back, the aerodynamic frame shape and the revised throat to keep a heavy frame moving through the air.
What that adds up to: mass and stability meeting an open pattern and free string movement, which is spin. It does not give you power — you supply that — but it does hold its line against a heavy ball and it lets you swing fast and still keep the ball in.
This is a committed player's racquet.
If you are not generating your own pace, it will feel like work, and I would rather you knew before you packed it. Take two. Take three sets of strings. Take a spare grip and a spare overgrip and the dampener you like, because they never sell the right one at the venue and you will spend the whole match thinking about it.
Irbid rewards the well-prepared. There is a museum on Tell Irbid, an ancient mound with a city on top of it. There is a Roman theatre at Beit Ras — Capitolias — and a painted tomb there with a whole world drawn on its walls.
And there is Umm Qais, which was Gadara, where you stand among black basalt columns and look out across the Sea of Galilee, and I would advise a hat, water, sensible shoes and a jacket for later, because it gets cold up there faster than anybody warns you.
Bring two. You will not need the second one, and that is precisely why you will be relaxed.
