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Butterfly Blade & Rubber Usage at World Championships

CHOICE OF THE WORLD’S BEST PLAYERS

2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2006 – 2018

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HOUSTON, USA 2021

BUTTERFLY Blade Usage: 54.8%


BUTTERFLY Rubber Usage: 

 

2021 World Table Tennis Championships Rubber Usage

2019

The World Chooses Trust

Butterfly Blades and Rubber Usage at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships 53.2% Butterfly Rubber and 56.6% Butterfly Blades

 

2006 through 2018

As the diagram shows, the so-called “speed glue” has been prohibited since September 2008 and plastic balls have started to be utilized since July 2014. At each time, the official rules have been changed according to the requirements of the era and the equipment had the opportunity to adapt. Table tennis will change over time. But when there is such a change – the choice of the world’s best players remains the same.

2018-blade-usage

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* The survey of usage rate was conducted by Butterfly. The usage rate of rubbers is calculated not by players but by quantity of rubbers. The usage rate is calculated by individual survey with players. The average valid response is 97.5%.

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