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I agreeI've been saying this for 15 years. If you can't consistently and reliably utilize the controls enforcing the rule to ban boosters, remove the rule and just allow them. It's embarrassing. 80% or more of the rackets at the event are boosted. Rubbers come from the factory boosted. Rubbers given to players by sponsors are boosted. All the players accept boosting as a truth. It's been this way since right after the glue ban and it will continue to be this way in perpetuity.
There is just no ways to police it.
glue ban is for "heath" and pressure from UN/IOC with UN sustainability policy
booster (voc free etc) does not fall into that health
so it is really just "control", but no one can control it.
You can have thickness infraction without using booster (ie, if you put 10 layers of glue, it will be too thick too)
with KTS in 1995, someone said, his "speed glue" doesn't add to the speed of his footwork.
even with a "legal" speed glue racket, he would of still won, as he was just too fast.