HEAD Pro X Racquet Bag L – Black

Yes, and more here than elsewhere. A dark bag in direct sun on a Dar court becomes seriously hot, and heat is the fastest killer of string tension - polyester especially. A thermal compartment keeps frames closer to ambient, so the stringbed you walk on court with is the one you paid for.

HEAD rate it at nine but suggest four to six as the practical load, with room for the rest of your kit. Nine racquets fills it with nothing else.

Clothing or shoes, and it is ventilated and separate from the racquets - which matters, because sweat-damp kit sealed against frames and grips in this humidity is how things start to smell and corrode.

Heat is hard on strings - polyester loses tension fastest of all string types and heat accelerates it sharply, so expect to restring more often than a European schedule suggests. Never leave a racket in a car boot. Humidity is hard on grips and on natural gut, which absorbs moisture and softens. And pressurised balls go dead faster in heat, opened or not.

When it stops being tacky, which in this heat and humidity is far sooner than the packet suggests - for a regular player, every few sessions. A slick grip makes you squeeze harder, and squeezing harder is slower, more tiring and how tennis elbow starts.

Long before they break. Strings lose tension and elasticity from the day they go in - the stringbed goes dead while looking perfect. The old rule still holds: restring as many times a year as you play per week. Twice a week, twice a year. At minimum once a year regardless, and sooner here, because heat accelerates tension loss badly.

Yes. The Pro X bag line is HEAD's Djokovic signature range and this is the current generation, refreshed with reinforced construction and larger outer compartments.

Yes. We deliver across Dar es Salaam and send nationwide to Arusha, Moshi, Mwanza, Dodoma, Zanzibar and beyond by courier. Call or WhatsApp us if you need a same-day drop in the city.