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There are different kinds of "good", so it´s pretty much impossible to give a definite answer. It all comes down to personal preferences and capabilities. Same blade weight and same rubbers will still result in different answers from different people. And one more thing: Many people might...

Indeed. But when supplying a player who has a signature blade they could use that one´s handles, if just to avoid discussions like this ;-)

Or take a look at the new Outerforce range, if it has to be Butterfly. They´re targeted at people who find regular outer fibre blades too fast, and they´re also competitively priced.

Other words for what I mean ;-)

This is a bit theoretical and about the fibre only. Don´t forget to consider the blade´s weight, thickness and its top veneer. If you are satisfied with the setup in general and overshoot on blocks "from time to time" I am not so sure that a different blade is necessary and even less sure it...

What would help in assessing the problem from the outside: which was your previous rubber and what is the new one? What could be tried to solve the problem: Take off the rubbers and glue them again, sometimes a bad glue job ruins it all.

One you didn´t mention: andro NUZN plays great without boosting AND lasts as long as a regular Tensor rubber. It is only slightly sticky and plays closer to a normal Tensor rubber than any other made in Germany hybrid, which is why some will tell you it´s not a hybrid - but andro product...

Even amongst the pro rubbers there can be some bad apples. They will not be as bad as those that appear in mass production, but then a player at that level would quite probably be more sensitive to slight imperfections ;-)

Yes.

I would say true to size, but no two feet are the same... As a small hint maybe, I bought Asics in UK 11 before and now it´s UK 11 for the Andro.

He is back in Romania since 2014 but I do not exactly know what he´s doing these days, probably coaching somewhere. As an 8 times World Championship player and 1 time Olympic Games participant he´s quite probably worth checking out ;-)

Good advice for all people who play on different floors. Over here in the lower leagues you would regularly play on a variety of floors in away matches, mostly in school sports halls of sometimes rather dubious general condition and cleanliness. Too much grip of the floor is therefore a rare...

If you consider that the whole development of the "hybrid" rubbers with their sticky/very grippy topsheet in combination with a dynamic Tensor sponge or Spring Sponge was pretty clearly meant to be an alternative to boosted Chinese rubbers, this might be the way to go. But by now there should...

I prefer to see seasoned pros in lower leagues, where they still have to put in some effort. For example I saw Karakasevic in Germany´s fourth league a couple of times, this weekend he won 4 matches effortlessly without dropping a single game, but there is also serious competition. Also I saw...

In direct comparison of two blades with the same weight and the same rubbers this is as accurate as it is compact. If someone wants to give percentage ratings of the isolated factors, go ahead. But all that does not make one "better" than the other, that depends on what you want to do with it.

Another "modern" adjustment was mentioned by Ovtcharov in a video, where he said that with tenergy he had too be more careful how he hit the ball and with d09c he could more easily just "go through it". So playing style influences rubber development which then influences playing style ;-)

The jury seems to be out on that.

Well, you couldn´t blame ESN for the fact that nearly everybody buys from them, resulting in some pretty similar products on the market by different brands. More diversity would be possible if the Japanese factories caught up technologically, but for example I liked Nexy Etika, it´s different to...

Former vice European Champion Torben Wosik. The story you might find that he wanted to play left because he saw his idol play left is not true, btw ;-) U19 World Champion Annett Kaufmann

It is a matter of personal preference, and with plastic balls more than ever a matter of the correlation between ball and table. So if you´re happy with the R40 where you play there might not be a "better" ball for you.