The pro's equipment -discussion and questions!

Baal wrote: Some top Chinese players seem to be worse EJs than any of us.

Some Chinese players get paid to use certain blades on certain tournaments! I don't think they are EJs. A PRO player usually stays on a certain blade. Kreanga fixes a certain blade in case of damage. I know the guy who fixes Kreanga's blade and he told me that.

Some good pictures on Pro equipment at China Open.

No ALC layers in WLQ's "TBS blade".I think this is not Butterfly blade.BH rubber is not red tenergy sponge(maybe is steel Hammond Pro-Beta).
Xu Xin use red tenergy sponge for BH(and old H3 FH???)
Ma Lin with old Skyline 2 ???


Edited by Zo k - 08/24/2010 at 7:24pm

glanden.zheng,
your signature shows that you use Tenergy 64 Professional Version!
Can you explain this?

WHOA LIXIAO?

Ryu Seung Min's racket:

Edited by ChichoFicho - 08/29/2010 at 8:26am

Re1Mu2R3 wrote: Anyone got data on what Ding Ning uses?

beeray1 wrote: WHOA LIXIAO?

AJay wrote: Some good pictures on Pro equipment at China Open.   http://www.bokett.com/tt/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=69&ID=292512

chris.b40 wrote: Nice pics Beeray1.

Lol they're not his...

On a more serious note I would like to know whick blade is most widely used amongst top TT pros.

glanden.zheng wrote: Stavros wrote: glanden.zheng, your signature shows that you use Tenergy 64 Professional Version! Can you explain this?  glad somebody realised: Well I got it from http://prott.cc/ under the special rubbers section. At first, even though the website claims that it is pro version, I didn't believe it at first. Many, including me before I used the rubber, thought they were all the same and there was no difference. But then I tried a ‘off-the-shelf’ Tenergy and the ‘pro version’ tenergy on each side and REALLY felt the difference. You can check ProTT under the special rubbers section and you’ll see.

Schlager: Crhistian Suus doesn't definitely use a TBS. Take a look at my post ;)

adrien mattenet uses innerforce zlc with some kind of tenergy on his forehand.

Edited by zain islam - 09/15/2010 at 10:53am

Nori wrote: What is Zhang's blade in the last image? taksim?

You mean Zhang Jike?  He's been using Viscaria.

Looks like most of the Chinese players using either Stiga or Butterfly (except Ma Lin and Wang Hao).  I think Ma Long has been using Timo Boll Spirit.  And all of their forehand rubbers are DHS rubbers (I would think they are either Hurricane III or II).

We, the mortal players, can buy those blades but to get a piece of Chinese Hurricane rubber national version seems like a tough task but we can always try the commercial or buying more expensive Euro/Jap rubbers such as Tenergy, Hexer+, etc...

To me, I'm good with a TBS or TB ALC and Hurricane III .  If I have enough money, Yasaka Pryde is the one that I'm going to buy.

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