ZHOU Yu new equipement

[Musaab]

First time in my 3 years closely watching table tennis stuff to see a CNT member playing RED in the forehand, thats Zhou Yu in German open 2017. I wonder if he changed only the colors for some reason or he completly changed his rubbers ...

 

[Astorix]

in my logic it only makes sense to play black in fh for a CNT when they playing with blue sponge rubber because as far as i know they are only produced with black topsheet.
maybe he used orange sponge, then it doesnt matter which colour to have on either side. Could be possible that the first racket didnt pass the test so the second one hasnt blue songe attached. only speculations here

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

in my logic it only makes sense to play black in fh for a CNT when they playing with blue sponge rubber because as far as i know they are only produced with black topsheet.
maybe he used orange sponge, then it doesnt matter which colour to have on either side. Could be possible that the first racket didnt pass the test so the second one hasnt blue songe attached. only speculations here

A note on the racket didn't pass test
The players all have 3 to 4 rackets

 

[VSDG]

I have read that Zhou Yu is now playing with the National Blue Sponge Hurricane on the Backhand, but it does seem that he is using a blue sponge euro/Japanese rubber instead, seeing that he still twiddles to the backhand side (black) when smashing.