Andro signed Taiwan no 2, Kao Cheng-Jui

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Great win for Kao Cheng-Jui (and Andro) over Felix at the Singapore Smash.

Change to German brand

Felix: OK
result: Top 10

Kao: I wanna change too!!!

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Like I said. Synteliac VCO has koto with long grains with white color
He use hinoki as top ply because I see yellow material and blurred material without grains like hinoki in garaydia blades.
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I love ping pong ( PP Vispower )
Taiwan brand, ex Butterfly Black tag producer is still using hinoki IT means hinoki is important in Taiwan and Andro needs popular material in the area...

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imo, the color in this pic isn't perfect.
look at Kao's skin color on his face, versus his hand with light shining on.
There is some color trick going on with the lighting and camera imo.

 

[greenbeanmachine]

This Black rubber looks like classic matt rasanter C series...
Nuzn rubbers are bright
Maybe he use C53 on both sides

You can see in his match with Felix that the sponge of the black rubber is white, indicating NUZN. Backhand rubber has green sponge, indicating either C or R series (probably C).

 

[Robin0910]

His equipment is on Andro’s website so you don’t have to guess
(Btw, it’s crazy that NUZN rubber costs 80 euros)

 

[NextLevel]

Change to German brand

Felix: OK
result: Top 10

Kao: I wanna change too!!!

Tell that to Junsung.

 

[joshmak10]

His equipment is on Andro’s website so you don’t have to guess
(Btw, it’s crazy that NUZN rubber costs 80 euros)

It’s cheaper on TT11.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It’s cheaper on TT11.

and it costs about 50 euro in Taiwan

 

[andzejgolot]

You right but only Butterfly can make ovtcharov alc as main Anton kallberg blade then I see some koto top ply. I know his blade was prototype for ovtcharov with alc and they are not lying but I received around 50-100 blades from my homie WHO makes blades and I can see the difference between koto hinoki limba from first sight. I dont care too much about their equipment because Samsonov didnt care about composition and he measure blade from just feeling impact, plus zhang jike in his video said that he didnt understand the fishscale pattern, M-N-L-O series because he received blade from Butterfly and didnt think it was special blades but it was Perfect for him
It will be really great if Kao top performance will match with new equipment and if he use Nuzn 55 it means the rubber is great.
If he use Rasanter C53/R53 IT means that Nuzn 50 is not that great

imo, the color in this pic isn't perfect.
look at Kao's skin color on his face, versus his hand with light shining on.
There is some color trick going on with the lighting and camera imo.

 

[Amayzde]

His equipment is on Andro’s website so you don’t have to guess
(Btw, it’s crazy that NUZN rubber costs 80 euros)

They never cost that much. If you buy 2 from Dandoy you get a 15% discount, and they will cost €68 each. If you buy 4 for the whole season, you get 25% off and they cost €60 a piece. If you see a website that doesnt give you any discount on NUZN just buy it from a different website.

 

[greenbeanmachine]

They never cost that much. If you buy 2 from Dandoy you get a 15% discount, and they will cost €68 each. If you buy 4 for the whole season, you get 25% off and they cost €60 a piece. If you see a website that doesnt give you any discount on NUZN just buy it from a different website.

If you buy Hurricane 3 you get a 75% discount, and as a bonus you get a better rubber that lasts longer

 

[John1811]

Are you telling me that this is Synteliac VCO? It looks more like Xiom TMXi PRO 😄

 

[RefereeNumber2]

Some stills from the men's doubles final at Singapore Smash. Not the best quality images but to me this clearly looks like an outer-fiber blade (plus shows the sponge colors for both rubbers).

My guess is Kao is indeed using the equipment Andro says: Synteliac VCO blade with Nuzn and Rasanter rubbers. The blade has a custom handle with Xiom colors, but this makes sense as Andro and Xiom blades are made in the same place (as Matt noted earlier in the thread -- and he should know since I believe some Joola blades are also made there! )

 

[Bilge Dogan]

Some stills from the men's doubles final at Singapore Smash. Not the best quality images but to me this clearly looks like an outer-fiber blade (plus shows the sponge colors for both rubbers).

My guess is Kao is indeed using the equipment Andro says: Synteliac VCO blade with Nuzn and Rasanter rubbers. The blade has a custom handle with Xiom colors, but this makes sense as Andro and Xiom blades are made in the same place (as Matt noted earlier in the thread -- and he should know since I believe some Joola blades are also made there! )

Kao was using W968 before and the closest blade in terms of feeling is the TMXi pro . Andro may allow him to use that.

 

[RefereeNumber2]

Kao was using W968 before and the closest blade in terms of feeling is the TMXi pro . Andro may allow him to use that.

Yeah that's what I thought too, but just looking at the images of his racket from Singapore Smash, it appears to be an outer-fiber blade. It definitely doesn't look like the TMXi Pro, which has the fiber layers much deeper from the surface.

It could also be some completely new blade, but based on the images and Andro's public statement, VCO with a custom handle seems the simplest explanation.

 

[stephan]

Björn Helbing, product manager for andro, wrote in a german forum:

"Kaos blade is a Synteliac VCO, but it has different handle scales. It is still a test blade with which he seems to have felt comfortable. He plays NUZN 55 on the FH and Rasanter R53 on the BH."