Adidas Tenzone Ultra SF

Adidas Tenzone Ultra SF 

Yogi_bear,$ is SF noticebly softer comparing to normal tensone ult?
Or it is difference characteristic ? 

update with review

tested the ultra sf again today with my female player and she loves it. she was using 5Q VIP before and I replaced it with the ultra sf. there was no change in her backhand loop near and medium distance from the table. The rubber cement effect has already settled and the rubber is still loud but not too soft.

from my experience europe versions of xiom are very soft. although the ultra sf has a soft feel the sponge and topsheet felt like it was 45 degrees. if the sigma europe and vega europe have almost the same hardness then ultra sf is harder

This is my first post on this forum although I have followed up various reviews and comments from members on this forum for a long time.

Firstly, I would like to express my sincere thanks, especially to yogi_bear , for all helpful reviews on various blades and rubbers that helps me a lot in finding suitable equipments for my TT. I finally found the most suitable rubbers for my playing style: Adidas Tenzone Ultra.

I have tried various rubbers and just in the past 2 years I tried with Stiga Spin, Stiga Sound, Tenergy 64, Tenrgy 05, 05 FX, Tenergy 80, Evolution MX-P, FX-P, Adidas P7 and now I am really happy with Adidas Tenzone Ultra max for FH and Tenzone Ultra SF 2.0 for BH.

I was waiting for the TZU SF version for my BH after trying both sides of blades with TZUs on my beloved ZJK Super ZLC blade. My order could be one of the first orders of this excellent rubber (around May 2014) from Contra. It really suited my BH and I concur with the above review from yogi_bear.

Very good control, easy to flick, brush, push (short and long), powerful smash, good counter topspins, very reliable and consistent block against heavy spin and powerful strokes are things that you can find from this rubber. For me, the best character of the TZU SF is the level of control, easy to manage with incoming spin but at the same time easy to create spin when needed to challenge the opponents. This is the best rubber IMHO so far for my BH.

You may see the pictures that I put two covers of TZU and TZU SF for comparison. Tolerance (control?) is higher for SF whilst other characters are nearly the same. However, I tested the SF for my FH but found it was inferior to the normal TZU in terms of speed and spin from mid and far distance strokes. Now with my combo, I think that my journey on new rubbers has been ended (or…may be until the new replacing version of Adidas for poly balls).

P/S: Just wonder if there is anyone having the Adidas Sonic rubber that announced to be released at the same time with TZU SF then disappeared into thin air just a few days later?


Edited by tamtam - 07/30/2014 at 5:41am

it depends on your preference. personally i prefer this over P7 but don't liek it on the forehand but some people likes this very much on their forehands over tenzone ultra

IMHO, it depends on your playing techniques and the blade that you use.

I used R7 long time ago as BH rubber for allround then carbon blades, also used P7 on ZLC then on RX-Carbon blades. It is no doubt that they are very good rubbers.

For me, R7 is very good rubber to play in slow and short games, more defensive. P7 is better for faster game, more forgiving in errors than R7. With P7 you can challenge opponents by your BH fast return, driving the ball to both wings of the table. It's better than R7 in topspin against topspin.

In case you want to push the game to high speed, to control the game by attacking by both wings, to return to the fast and heavy spin loops arriving to your back hand with the speed and spiny, to do BH smash or drive back thorny balls coming from opponents using long pips rubbers, you may need rubber sometimes help you "break your limits, control the extreme" (Adidas TZU's slogan), then Tenzone Ultra SF would be suitable for your BH!

Just pay attention that though TZU SF is considered as soft rubber, it is really fast and bouncy!

does it play well with polyball?

cool. i might get a sheet this weekend..  thanks yogi_bear!

im not gonna compete so it doesn't really matter to me. just wanna try this rubber :)

any idea which tenergy rubber plays like TZU sf? 

   £45.61 ?