What Joola BH rubber is Zhou Qihao using now?

[Robin0910]

So the my EJ eyes just caught this from Beijing Smash.
the sponge of his BH rubber is purple so it’s not D09c anymore.
I reckon it’s either Dynaryz ZGR or ZGX, the latter is more plausible since he used to use ZGR before when he first got sponsored by Joola but then switched to D09c for quite a long time

 

[andzejgolot]

It looks like dignics imo

 

[Amayzde]

You can never be sure about equipment of CNT players. Even though he is supposedly using a Joola blade, it probably is a CNT/Golden Viscaria.

Just like Fan Zhendong when he was sponsored by Stiga. He was using a Viscaria with Infinity handle.

CNT players generally play with 2 types of setups:
Blades: W968 or Golden Viscaria
Rubbers: H3 blue sponge on forehand, and H3 orange or D09C on backhand.

 

[CallMeZaddy]

Ping Sunday says D05

 

[Robin0910]

Ping Sunday says D05

He’s not credible

 

[Robin0910]

For the love of god, it can’t be dignics since the sponge is purple

 

[Attitude]

Totally agree with Robin here. The rest is either blind or talkin trash. Sorry if you are offended but this is plain annoying.

@topic it could the new inferno rubber too. At least it would suite the category and it seems other joola sponsored player are using it.
But i couldnt find any source where i see the rubber.
It just would fit because it is one of the newer rubbers of joola and ZQ never played with their rubbers before.

 

[Fedex78]

So the my EJ eyes just caught this from Beijing Smash.
the sponge of his BH rubber is purple so it’s not D09c anymore.
I reckon it’s either Dynaryz ZGR or ZGX, the latter is more plausible since he used to use ZGR before when he first got sponsored by Joola but then switched to D09c for quite a long time

To me it looks like my Dynaryz ZGX, which is for BH a great choice at pro level and great alternative to D09C.

 

[Amayzde]

Totally agree with Robin here. The rest is either blind or talkin trash. Sorry if you are offended but this is plain annoying.

@topic it could the new inferno rubber too. At least it would suite the category and it seems other joola sponsored player are using it.
But i couldnt find any source where i see the rubber.
It just would fit because it is one of the newer rubbers of joola and ZQ never played with their rubbers before.

You know what’s annoying? People wanting to know what pro players play with. Especially the CNT play with custom rubbers that are made specially for them. So it doesn’t matter what he plays with, because we can’t buy it anyway.

 

[Jan_]

Ping Sunday says D05

He's as reliable as alfa romeo from the 80's.

 

[Jan_]

You know what’s annoying? People wanting to know what pro players play with. Especially the CNT play with custom rubbers that are made specially for them. So it doesn’t matter what he plays with, because we can’t buy it anyway.

They're not that special. Their hurricane rubbers are a weird case, the Europeans use special production rubbers with some kind of boosting, but it's not this special monster that doesn't allow them to miss shots.

Cnt is different because they're known to be using all kinds of boosters and dhs is known for altering their rubbers without changing the LARC codes. They could be using a softer, higher quality and tackier topsheet with a custom sponge that reacts uniquely to a specific kind of booster, who knows?

But here's the thing, a pro t05 is still a t05 with better qc, maybe a harder sponge and treated with some kind of booster the player wants. Butterfly does it in batches and sends entire orders of those things.

A pro confirmed it a while ago, I can't remember who, maybe Heming Hu but I'm not sure. There were pictures of like 50 sheets of t05 in a clear package that was sent to a national team, I think Germany. Also normal guys that have played with pro rubbers say they're not that different than production ones.

Safe to assume that joola didn't make one rubber for one player just because he's sponsonred by them. Joola is still a company and making these kind of rubbers for one player would result in a financial loss. Not so much when you provide entire teams or your sponsored elite athletes.

 

[Kopp]

Ping Sunday says D05

Did you mean the AI channel on YT?

 

[Zwill]

It's not the first time a CNT player used an ESN rubber on their BH. I'm pretty sure Liang Jingkun and Yan An used Rakza X back in the days.
But anyway I think ZQH used D05 before so I'm inclined to say he's using AGR? For sure he could use ZGR or ZGX but if I remember well ZGR is a heavy mofo and I would assume ZGX is similar. Can't imagine a Chinese player using a 55g rubber on BH just based on principle alone lol.

 

[backspacer]

It's not the first time a CNT player used an ESN rubber on their BH. I'm pretty sure Liang Jingkun and Yan An used Rakza X back in the days.
But anyway I think ZQH used D05 before so I'm inclined to say he's using AGR? For sure he could use ZGR or ZGX but if I remember well ZGR is a heavy mofo and I would assume ZGX is similar. Can't imagine a Chinese player using a 55g rubber on BH just based on principle alone lol.

I have a Viscaria with ZGR and CMD on it. It's a feather compared to my FZD SALC with ZGX and Inferno put on it.

 

[Peter93]

It seems he has endorsed ZGR.

 

[Robin0910]

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here it says he chose to use the ZGR, probably on the backhand. That’s why I think he’s either using that or the ZGX currently

 

[Jan_]

Did you mean the AI channel on YT?

It didn't used to be an ai voice over, he got a lot of cr@p for his accent and maybe that's why he changed to using ai voice.

 

[Matt Hetherington]

Allow me to clear it up for you. It was Dynaryz Inferno with a harder sponge