Liang Jingkun changed blade at WTT Finals Fukuoka 2024?

[Hoàng Chinh Trump]

Liang Jingkun seems to change blade? Last month he used DHS W968 at Montpellier, but yesterday, it looked like a Viscaria or something new???

The first and second photo you can see a Butterfly handle style. In the third photo, I remember that W968 has a white dragon logo in backhand side, but in this photo, it's a black circle? But the last photo, the handle looked like a W968, so strange.

A Viscaria old version? Or a custom Viscaria? Or a new blade with his name?

 

[Gozo Aruna]

could it be,,, gasp! could it be, EJ is bad for pro performance?

 

[joshmak10]

Looks like the old tag Viscaria. Im more interested in the backhand rubber. Its hard to see the sponge colour because of the lighting, is the BH still H3N Orange Sponge or something else?

 

[SlowPower]

With the monthly change of bladesfor pro players as discussed in another topic- how many old tag Viscarias must he have saved in a bunker?

 

[Wrighty67]

Doesn’t look like a Viscaria old tag to me - insert looks more like DHS, and there’s no circular insert on BH like on an old tag Visc. Wood ply colour also looks non viscaria like.

Not sure but I’d guess a DHS custom of some sort?

 

[joshmak10]

Doesn’t look like a Viscaria old tag to me - insert looks more like DHS, and there’s no circular insert on BH like on an old tag Visc. Wood ply colour also looks non viscaria like.

Not sure but I’d guess a DHS custom of some sort?

On the forehand side, there is a viscaria logo there. The BH is hard to see, but the circular logo on the back makes it 75% certain it’s a Viscaria old tag

 

[andzejgolot]

Maybe some custom outer, yeah you see IT is outer and viscaria handle. It can be reglued handle from old viscaria and golden viscaria/ super viscaria, custom viscaria as the blade.

 

[Aizen]

it seems very likely as a Butterfly blade,

A Silver tag seen at bottom. (Not old tag 😌 )

the most clear picture I can catch, still text is not readable but very similar to viscaria.

Maybe he just lost/forget/broke his main and using from anybody in CNT. 😅

 

[Oliverpool]

He was on a losing streak anyway? Maybe he was told by DHS to sabo butterfly. See I lost because I used butterfly blade! 😜

 

[piligrim]

Handle color doesn't looks like Viscaria

 

[AndySmith]

Definitely butterfly, better pictures here -

https://flic.kr/p/2qvngCE

 

[Doralikesmath]

It's an old tag viscaria on appearance, probably discolored from heavy use or from lightning. Everything matches. Just Google for a Viscaria around 2006-2012 and you'll see.

 

[Robin0910]

Early Model (M.Y.1994) of Butterfly Viscaria [Photos & Information]

Butterfly ‘Viscaria’ which is the best seller of Butterfly is the representative of the ‘outer-fiber’ blade. And, it is also the representative of all fiber blades. ‘V…

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Here you can see that LJK was using a mid-term viscaria which is neither the old tag version nor the newest one. I think this is just his old Viscarias that he was before switching to DHS. Perhaps he was fed up with his recent losses and decided to try with this

 

[Peter93]

Very clearly a Viscaria.

 

[piligrim]

Probably his good old viscaria which he was using before his special W968 version which is also an other carbon blade. Or all his bats somehow failed to pass the test and he had to use somebody else’s

Maybe photographer stepped on his racket

 

[\_Kairos_/]

Yes, based on the pictures provided it's clearly a Viscaria, in fact from the time frame 2009 - 2014. The old silver tag was first introduced sometime in 2009 and was used until 2014. The presence of the black-white lens on the bh side also support the time frame, as it was still in use back then and actually lasted one year longer until 2015.
In 2015 and 2016 (P and Q series) the Viscaria handle underwent no less than three design changes.