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Pro's rackets in China Open

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Great finds, atv, as always. Ma Long uses T05 and Skyline, I am surprised but then again not surprised that everyone was wrong in their assumptions of what he used. You just never know anymore.

god the tospheets on the FH side are just beautiful. So good.

Really tensioned topsheets !

mayuki24 wrote: You really can see that chinese men's team do boost their fh rubber  BTW Atv - where are the pictures taken from?

It is from guott.com, sorry i should have credited it!

@ atv

Do Ma Long use skyline 3 blue sponge or not? and are they neo ?

liXiao wrote: qynthnghm wrote: Wei Qingguang wearing those classic Warrior sneakers! I myself own a pair, they are great. Is that what they're called?? The Chinese only used them for two three decades of playing, and yet I never knew what company they were. Do you know what the name in chinese is?

As I remember, most Warrior shoes entered the Indonesian market in the 1980s were  basketball shoes, with a logo of a warrior holding an arch on inner sides.
Black and white in colors, the black ones were widely used as shoes "uniform" in some schools, from elementary to high schools. I wore them during my high school days, in 1990s.

From 2000s onwards I don't see them here in Indonesia, replaced by Converse, Nike, Adidas...

Thank you Beeray1 for your post . I am wondering what they use to tune their rubbers with could it be Dian Chi booster what prott cc are selling?

beeray1 wrote: liXiao wrote: Ma Long, Ma Lin, and Wang Hao all use the old skyline (Skyline Blue Sponges for Neo aren't easy to come by, sure they can get whatever they want, but they probably prefer the old style). You can tell that its the old version because the characters are in the middle of the rubber, not the DHS logo.    that actually has nothing to do with whether it's NEO or not, lixiao. The new logo is used for all DHS products now, NEO and non-neo. The topsheets are now slightly different too. They just get the old style topsheets because they were spinnier than the new blend of topsheets. That's why some of them also use the new topsheets because those ones are geared more for speed.   Honestly, I don't doubt that none of them use NEO and all of them just boost the old sponges.

Edited by liXiao - 06/28/2011 at 4:32pm

So from atv's posts we have the following:

WOMEN

Feng Tianwei (SIN)
Rosewood NCT V
Hurricane III Neo
Tenergy 64

Gue Yue (CHN)
Ebenholz NCT V
Grip-S
Tenergy 05

Liu Shiwen (CHN)
Innerforce ZLF
Grip-S
Tenergy 05

Wen Jia (CHN))
Ovtcharov Senso
Hurricane III Neo
Baracuda

MEN

Ma Long (CHN)
Timo Boll ALC
Skyline III
Tenergy 05

Wang Hao (CHN)
Hurricane Hao
Skyline III
Sriver topsheet

Wang Liqin (CHN)
Rosewood NCT V
Hurricane III Neo
Tenergy 64

Zhang Jike (CHN)
Viscaria FL
Hurricane III Neo
Tenergy 64

It seems Tenergy 64 is a favorite backhand rubber for most of the CNT.

Ma Lin using Bryce Speed FX still. I guess the Tenergy was a temporary change.

beeray1 wrote: liXiao wrote: Ma Long, Ma Lin, and Wang Hao all use the old skyline (Skyline Blue Sponges for Neo aren't easy to come by, sure they can get whatever they want, but they probably prefer the old style). You can tell that its the old version because the characters are in the middle of the rubber, not the DHS logo.    that actually has nothing to do with whether it's NEO or not, lixiao. The new logo is used for all DHS products now, NEO and non-neo. The topsheets are now slightly different too. They just get the old style topsheets because they were spinnier than the new blend of topsheets. That's why some of them also use the new topsheets because those ones are geared more for speed.   Honestly, I don't doubt that none of them use NEO and all of them just boost the old sponges.

That's right i think the new rule requests not only the brand and ITTF logo but also the serial number like 24-008, etc, so the change in all DHS rubbers.

Those topsheets are LOADED with juice :p

sa01 wrote: beeray1 wrote: liXiao wrote: Ma Long, Ma Lin, and Wang Hao all use the old skyline (Skyline Blue Sponges for Neo aren't easy to come by, sure they can get whatever they want, but they probably prefer the old style). You can tell that its the old version because the characters are in the middle of the rubber, not the DHS logo.    that actually has nothing to do with whether it's NEO or not, lixiao. The new logo is used for all DHS products now, NEO and non-neo. The topsheets are now slightly different too. They just get the old style topsheets because they were spinnier than the new blend of topsheets. That's why some of them also use the new topsheets because those ones are geared more for speed.   Honestly, I don't doubt that none of them use NEO and all of them just boost the old sponges. my tuned and retuned h3 neo is close to a haifu bwII at this point yes the old topsheet is much more spinny but the old rubbers tuned are a bit slower. you need lots and lots of tuner to get a decent speed. it could be that they are using the old topsheet with the neo sponge under however.... I remember some time ago seeing a pic of another chinese player with an old style h3 here.

actually all the chinese could be using old sponge...
all the new rubbers have the new style topsheet, doesn't matter if they have neo sponge or not.
so I'm afraid there's no way of telling if they are really using neo or not


Edited by sa01 - 06/29/2011 at 2:59pm