I just received this photo from my friend, a close up of Ovtcharov's forehand rubber at the World Cup. Look, he is using a Chinese rubber looks like a DHS rubber blue sponge?
Strange I think.
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Don't mean to be the spoil sport, but can really anybody see the printing properly?
I blew up the pic to fullscreen but couldn't recognize any details on the topsheet.
Or does anybody maybe have this pic in high res?
What I could see is the blueish colour peeping between the topsheet and the side tape though.
just FTR: Donic also uses rubbers with blue sponges....
And as I already wrote in a different thread, there are TT-players working for the R&D department of ESN that can simply produce ANY rubber with ANY printing on it, but only in small batches 'cause it's quite expensive and therefore only for a few pros.
But if anyone's got this pic in high res it could clear up things.
Maybe it's because all these weird conspiracy theories and practices on the web that made me so sceptical this be questioning each and every thing, but guys from this pic I wouldn't be able to tell anything for sure...