Takuma Ueda - Adipower Tour (ARC11) Wing Ki Wong - Precision Pro (ARC10) Nozomi Okuhara - Adizero Pro (VTZF) Viktor Axelsen - Adipower Pro (VTZF) Tanguy Citron - Adipower Pro (ARC10)
seems like Tsai Chia Hsin and Chen Hung Ling from Chinese Taipei moved to TK8000 Kinda surprising considering they're both coming from sw35 edit: now that I look at victors website, it seems like everyone that was using sw35 recently moved to TK8000 which is very surprising considering the difference in stiffness and balancing of the two racquets
Hsuan Yi Hsueh - Thruster K8000 Ruud Bosch - Virtuoso Performance (VT80) Koen Ridder - Virtuoso Pro (ARC10)
Not so very much imop - the Thruster is generally considered to be rather head heavy. The stiffness is definitely different, but you can get used to that...
Yes, I checked on the Taiwan web site of Victor and they say Hsueh uses the TK 8000. His smashes in his match against JOJ in the Sudirman cup were awesome!
When the players switch racquets, they don't necessarily keep the same specs. For example Peter Gade went from arc 10 to voltric 80. Tontowi went from armortec 900 power to BS 12. There are many examples actually. Quite puzzling, isn't it?
Actually not - players are just humans after all They can change their preference...and whenever they change sponsors they mostly just go with what feels good. Sometimes that means a change of specs, apparently. Sometimes they can also bow to their sponsor's pressure as well (although that was certainly not the case with PG - he was one of Yonex' bigger assets after all).
