Any top level Pro using all wood blade?

[Cadoia]

Does anyone know if there is a male top 50 pro player using all wood blade?
Or are all on carbon basically?

 

[Imperfecto]

Kristian Karlsson uses a butterfly SK7 but hes not top50 right now

 

[greenbeanmachine]

Ruwen Filus

 

[joshmak10]

I think Karlsson is the last offensive player to use the wood play in the top 100

 

[PaddyPolar]

Simon Gauzy im pretty sure still uses a wood blade

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Simon Gauzy im pretty sure still uses a wood blade

Not anymore. He's been using the Synteliac VCI for about a year.

 

[Robin0910]

Mohamed El-Beiali uses Stiga Ebenholz NCT V, a 5 ply all wood blade, he’s no 47 now

 

[greenbeanmachine]

I have a hot take: carbon blades should be illegal. Makes the game too fast.

 

[rbtitco]

I have a hot take: carbon blades should be illegal. Makes the game too fast.

Then they would just play thick hinokki

 

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[NetProphet]

Then they would just play thick hinokki

But can they still get that wood anymore? 🤔

 

[Dominikk85]

Then they would just play thick hinokki

I think they would develop even faster rubbers then.

I think this is already happening. When speed glue was banned in the early 2010s many players went to super fast rackets like schlager carbon or primorac carbon but now many players are going to slightly slower inner carbon blades because the modern rubbers (sometimes with booster) are just as fast or faster than old rubbers with speed glue.

Maybe in a couple years rubbers will be so fast that pros are going to even slower blades?

 

[PoppaChubby]

I have a hot take: carbon blades should be illegal. Makes the game too fast.

There are more rallies than 30 years ago with the speed glue. Have you ever watched a classic Gatien vs Saive match ? it rarely went further than 5 or 6 strokes, the norm being the 3rd or 4th ball kill. I've seen Saive thrashing Waldner by reading his serves and killing them on the receive almost 30% of a 21 pts game. Cell ball + speed glue and no HD broadcast was really difficult to watch sometimes.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Kristian Karlsson uses Butterfly SK 7 ( seven ply all wood )

 

[rbtitco]

But can they still get that wood anymore? 🤔

There's other hinokis than kiso that are easy to get. People could play thick Clippers too, I guess, and still have some speed

 

[kfsyg21]

Bernadette szocs

 

[Lazer]

Speed is not the only factor. A wood blade can be plenty fast. As a matter of fact my Yasaka silver 9 is faster than my Primorac Carbon. Primo is from 1996 though.

My Donic Appelgren WC89 and Nittaku S-CZ (almost the same blade) are slower than most 7 ply all woods. And they are outers… Excellent blades btw..

Cheers
L-zr

 

[NoSpin]

He Zhoujia uses Rosewood NCT VII.
Ive seen rumors that Koki Niwa was forced to use his carbon blade instead of Niwa Wood which he liked more.

 

[piligrim]

I think they would develop even faster rubbers then.

I think this is already happening. When speed glue was banned in the early 2010s many players went to super fast rackets like schlager carbon or primorac carbon but now many players are going to slightly slower inner carbon blades because the modern rubbers (sometimes with booster) are just as fast or faster than old rubbers with speed glue.

Maybe in a couple years rubbers will be so fast that pros are going to even slower blades?

They not forced to use this super fast rubbers. There are many slow rubbers

 

[PoppaChubby]

I think they would develop even faster rubbers then.

I think this is already happening. When speed glue was banned in the early 2010s many players went to super fast rackets like schlager carbon or primorac carbon but now many players are going to slightly slower inner carbon blades because the modern rubbers (sometimes with booster) are just as fast or faster than old rubbers with speed glue.

Maybe in a couple years rubbers will be so fast that pros are going to even slower blades?

The french school: "slow" all wood blades + fast rubbers, it was that way for Gatien Chila Eloi Legout and the same with Lebesson and Gauzy before he switched to the Andro Syntheliac VCI. The reason he did the switch was because of hybrid rubbers slowing the racket. The Lebrun are from a newer generation of players, they've used ALC and inner ZLC blades since their U11 years.

The french are taught TT like that: feel and control first.