The Pro's Equipment - Discussion!

[Peter93]

https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m92769064516?

Someone on Mercari is selling a purported Golden Viscaria meant for Lin Shidong. A bargain for only $2400.

 

[banbekas]

they took those Hugo losses to heart

If you can't beat them, join them.

 

[joshmak10]

Do you reckon the CNT players are boosting the C55 with Haifu or keeping it non-boosted due to already being good enough to play without it?

Probably boosted at least one or two layers

 

[Magic_M]

As some of you may already know. Dimitrij Ovtcharov switched from his former Innerforce ALC to a "Custom Super ZLC".
https://www.butterfly-global.com/en/sponsoring/detail/ovtcharov-dimitrij.html
If I look at the picture on the official Butterlfy site, it looks as if there is a very thin fibre in the middle for the blade.

What can this be? Or do just I see this fibre?

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

Not sure, but I think they just use that blade photo as a placeholder on "custom shakehand" entries for the pro's equipment (can see on other player for Custom SH ALC as well, for example).

 

[Sedis]

Noticed Batra switched rubber colors, and upon some digging see she switched pips as well. This *looks* to be Dawei 388 D-2. I'd like better photos to confirm.

Do you think this might be because of the recent racket infraction she was on the list for? Maybe it was something to do with her pips and she doesn't want to risk another.

 

[Charlesmorris]

As some of you may already know. Dimitrij Ovtcharov switched from his former Innerforce ALC to a "Custom Super ZLC".
https://www.butterfly-global.com/en/sponsoring/detail/ovtcharov-dimitrij.html
If I look at the picture on the official Butterlfy site, it looks as if there is a very thin fibre in the middle for the blade.

View attachment 40005

What can this be? Or do just I see this fibre?

This is really cool to see though, it could open the discussion for more pros to use super zlc blades considering the impressive results Dimitrij has been achieving recently. If they release a Ovtcharov super zlc, I’ll struggle not to buy it 😂

 

[ThePongCommenter]

it could open the discussion for more pros to use super zlc blades considering the impressive results Dimitrij has been achieving recently.

Probably not happening.

 

[sebi]

Maybe his new blade is more like the Omas Assar Innerforce ZLC. 2 thin outerplys and a even thicker core.

 

[sebi]

Maybe his new blade is more like the Omas Assar Innerforce ZLC. 2 thin outerplys and a even thicker core.

 

[piligrim]

Maybe his new blade is more like the Omas Assar Innerforce ZLC. 2 thin outerplys and a even thicker core.

Or it's Omar ZLC with different handle ))

 

[Peter93]

Niu Guankai using the Double Fish Zhou Qihao

https://flic.kr/p/2rSSDgq

Xu Haidong using the Yasaka Deep Penetrate (yes that's the name).

https://flic.kr/p/2rSFLc1

 

[xeNTric]

Niu Guankai using the Double Fish Zhou Qihao

https://flic.kr/p/2rSSDgq

Xu Haidong using the Yasaka Deep Penetrate (yes that's the name).

https://flic.kr/p/2rSFLc1

Nice catch on Niu Guankai! Very interesting seeing ZQH's recent blade already floating through the scene!

On Xu Haidong, what I think has been noticeable is that CNT penhold players seem to be slowly drifting away from DHS 301 (probably the most used blade). If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was Xue Fei that during the National Games was using a FZD so... yer, new times ahead!

 

[PhantomCSS]

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Very weird to me they mention all this stuff in the catalog, and then say nothing else about it lol

Vsport-tt.com says it will be available to purchase may 2026 for the infinity mxp and mxs

 

[mikeytt]

hayata played with zyre at all japan

 

[tzifos]

Anyone knows what what pips is Abhinandh using in backhand ?

 

[Peter93]

Anyone knows what what pips is Abhinandh using in backhand ?

https://flic.kr/p/2rHREGA

That's definitely the Spinlord logo. Dornenglanz would be my guess.

 

[tzifos]

That's definitely the Spinlord logo. Dornenglanz would be my guess.

I am sure that it isn't Dornenglanz as it is sponged, while Dornenglanz is OX. From the way it plays it is like a medium-pip with a thicker than 1.5mm sponge.

 

[zeio]

As some of you may already know. Dimitrij Ovtcharov switched from his former Innerforce ALC to a "Custom Super ZLC".
https://www.butterfly-global.com/en/sponsoring/detail/ovtcharov-dimitrij.html
If I look at the picture on the official Butterlfy site, it looks as if there is a very thin fibre in the middle for the blade.

View attachment 40005

What can this be? Or do just I see this fibre?

Innerfiber SZLC according to Butterfly Japan.

https://www.butterfly.co.jp/players/detail/ovtcharov-dimitrij.html

※スーパーZLカーボンシェーク／インナーファイバー仕様

(*Super ZL Carbon Shake/Innerfiber specification)

 

[Peter93]

I am sure that it isn't Dornenglanz as it is sponged, while Dornenglanz is OX. From the way it plays it is like a medium-pip with a thicker than 1.5mm sponge.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not super familiar with Spinlord so I was just guessing. I went back and looked at a lot of photos and I think we can narrow this down a lot.

So we know it's a medium pip most likely, and it's horizontally aligned, and it's made by Spinlord. There are 9 "out" rubbers from Spinlord on the LARC. This covers anything that is not a long pimpled rubber. Degu, Waran, and Wyvern all short, so it can't be those. Gepard, Mantikor and ORKan are vertically aligned, so we can rule those out as well.

That leaves us with Gipfelsturm, Keiler, and Nashorn. Unfortunately these all have the same colored sponges in their regular versions.

https://flic.kr/p/2rHEuAx

If this photo were clearer, we'd be able to read the ITTF code.

https://flic.kr/p/2rHkBGx

Last number here looks like a 6? Which would indicate it could be Nashorn or Gipfelsturm. Nothing really definitive, but I think it gets us closer to an answer.