Lin Shidong's Gear
Updated
The Chinese international Lin Shidong, world No. 9 and a former world No. 1, plays a gold-label Butterfly Viscaria with DHS Hurricane 3 Neo on the forehand and Butterfly Dignics 09C on the backhand.
- Blade · Butterfly Viscaria Golden (special order)
- Forehand · DHS Hurricane 3 Neo
- Backhand · Butterfly Dignics 09C
- Country · China
The setup
The blade is a Viscaria, the gold-label one: the gold logo on the handle, and by the Chinese equipment write-ups his is a player special order of it rather than the market blade — the same outer-fibre construction, tuned for him. On the forehand he plays Hurricane 3 Neo — DHS's classic tacky topsheet on the factory-pre-tuned sponge, the sheet our Rubbers price table lists as Neo Hurricane 3. The tack lets a serve or a short push load without much forward motion, and the sponge pays it back when he commits; the sheet's sponge colour is a separate choice, which our blue vs orange sponge guide sets out.
On the backhand he plays Dignics 09C, Butterfly's mildly tacky hybrid on the Spring Sponge X — the sheet that used to be thought of as a forehand-only choice, and which now turns up on the backhands of players who swing through from both sides.
So the racket is now the mixed one that has become common at the top: the Chinese tacky forehand, the European hybrid on the backhand, rather than Hurricane on both sides. Both sheets are on the Rubbers price table. The blade is the gold-label Viscaria, a rarer version than the market Viscaria on our Blades price list — name the gold label in the quote request if that is the one you want.
Ordering
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