New balls

[tabletennisuk]

What stance are your local leagues taking over the new balls next season?

The first league to declare their stance in my area has said that teams may choose which ball they use, but that it must be stated at the start of the season which balls they will be using.

The issue I have is that with the release of poly ball suited rubbers, players could be forced into using different bats on different nights. If my local league decides it will use poly ball, but another league I play in decides people can choose, it seems like a bit of a financial minefield.

The choice option has been allowed to try and get the old balls out of circulation. I still feel that the powers that be need to grow some balls (pardon the pun) and tell local leagues the direction they need to go in.


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[agold]

This isn't a league, but my club is Wang Chen Table Tennis Club, which is run by Wang Chen, who is a very successful Olympian. I asked her, and she didn't even know there were new balls! I still have a ways to go with my club

 

[Der_Echte]

Will anyone be willing to post to their FB status "ITTF sez I need to play with new balls !" ???

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Imo, the entire league/division must standardise on a ball - to the brand if possible

In most places, the brand is not possible, but at least the type of ball should be.
It can't be some teams using this, some teams using that, as there will be 3 different balls, and the brands will further make the variation even bigger.
The 3 being seamless poly, seam poly and cellu balls

 

[Belisar]

My local league decided it could not enforce one ball type or another due to both being "approved". The teams themselves agreed to use celluloid as poly balls are difficult to get hold of in the UK at the moment and there is a general resentment to the change anyway.

Be interesting to see if supplies of celluloid hold out for the season or if one team breaks ranks part way through if they think they can gain an advantage.

 

[Nisde]

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[Binas]

Does new balls have different size of old ones?

 

[Rajah*]

Does new balls have different size of old ones?

Old 40mm
New 40+mm

 

[Belisar]

On average I think the new balls are supposed to be 8 percent larger.

 

[TTHopeful]

On average I think the new balls are supposed to be 8 percent larger.

That is an impressive amount!

 

[cjniuie123]

AAhhhh! nice