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LOL - you can't say "literally bans". Figuratively bans maybe. XX, FZD, LSW didn't get either of the singles places on offer, and that's that. There isn't a ban. Even if there were 3 singles places on offer, one of the big chinese 4 men would have missed out. The Olympics isn't to blame for...

I was being a bit naughty there, obviously. Hopefully it isn't more expensive, but Butterfly have a bad track record of releasing similar blades and asking more for them. I can understand wanting to refresh the designs. They introduced their new logo recently and probably want it on their...

Not yet. I'm sure it will be awesomely priced though. Hopefully it will slot into his current "All Tibhar" rubbers pricing scheme.

It's probably doubled in price?

If it helps, Tibi will have them available from next week.

This is exactly it - Baracuda for the plastic masses. Paracuda. Genesis might be great, but it's expensive for a Chinese-made rubber. I'm waiting for more reviews to come in on that one, or a gently used sheet to appear somewhere. Tom is a fantastic player operating at a far higher level...

Until the next one.

:D Stiga burned a lot of bridges with Calibra Tour, that's for sure. I have to say that I'm bouncing off the walls for EL-S and FX-S. The initial reports are gushing with praise.

I'd like to ask him to rate the teeth of the top ten pros out of ten. ;) Ah, well actually - is he still a full-time dentist, and how hard does he find it to balance his TT with his tooth-related career? Also, how does he feel about the plastic ball - specifically its effect on defensive...

Hardness: EL-S - JPN 33.5-35.0 EUR 43.8 - 45.8 FX-S - JPN 31.5-33.0 EUR 41.0 - 43.0 The hype is building... Edit - bah, Airoc beat me to it. I remember Airoc being pretty slow last time I used it as well...

Ball list update... ...but it's only to remove the balls with expired approvals. A few celluloid balls have vanished, and no more Adidas balls of any type.

Yeah, he was using his new Bo blade. Not quite the same as the Long 5 though. Bo has koto outers, Long 5 has limba. Edit - I'm thinking about the B1 there, not the B2, so wrong. Apologies! B2 has limba outers. Doh.

Yes, he still performs at big events...right up until the wheels fall off and he doesn't. Did ZJK ever go into any of these big events off the back of such poor form? Or with these injury worries hanging over him? Past performance isn't a guarantee of future success, just an indicator...

Agree, this looks to have been trained into him intentionally. It's too premeditated and constant. Of course everyone celebrates in difference ways. We all pull off a killer shot from time to time - hard not to be happy with that. An unexpected win against a better player might result in...

Ball updates are coming thick and fast now. Donic P40+ - Seamed - White - Made in China Double Fish V40+ - Seamed - White - Made in China Tmount Prime 40+ - Seamed - White - Made in China I'd never heard of Tmount, but they appear to be a South Korean TT store.

Another new entry, slightly more interesting: Nittaku NSD40+ - Seamed - White - Made in China Possibly the Nittaku-branded version of the new DHS D40+?

TeesSport don't have them. Pick a thickness and colour and they'll tell you it's out of stock until August. Very few sheets have ended up with connected people in Germany a few weeks back, but that's it. Not available on the general market yet.

Available where?

New ball on the list today: Guoqiu - Seamless - White - Made in China Just another seamless ball.

That is definitely a Stiga Infinity with ZJK-SZLC handles on. They can't fool me!