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Hi,
there are 4 players in my club, that play the Sanwei T88-1 on FH since many years.
I always ordered the sheets for them at aliexpress. Now they aren´t available (only one seller who wants over 20 Euro, principially not tolerable).
Do you know an alternative for them. LOKI RXTON? Palio AK 47 blue, yellow, red? Dawei 388A?
Thank you, Alex

I have not tried it, but: https://alketabletennis.com.au/sanwei-t88-iii-double/

The same store has sanwei gears too, which has a slight reverse dome out of the package.

I know the T88-III. Completely other rubber.

I'm no help. I usually can't tell the difference between one inverted rubber and the next, and this applies doubly to Chinese rubbers. Since there are a lot of cheap Chinese rubbers, just buy a pile of them and try them one at a time (which is how I came to the conclusion that they're all mostly interchangeable). Eventually you'll find something you like, or come to the same conclusion I did.

Check out my old "training rubber" thread - it's buried down there somewhere.

Iskandar

so it is available, the players just don't want to pay the higher price if I understand right.

There is only one who sells the T88-1 in 39 and 40°, not 41°(the preferred).
I can test the others but what is, when he´s out of stock.
Does anyone know if the rubber is still in production?
The special thing about the rubber are the large pimples. Is Sanwei Target similar?

Bad news I guess. Looking through the LARC:

https://equipment.ittf.com/#/equipment/racket_coverings

T88-1 is no longer listed. Which means they didn't bother renewing it, which means they don't make it any more. There are still four different T88s on the list - T88 (62-008), T88-II (62-010), T88-III (62-011) and T88 Taiji (interestingly, 62-007). My guess is that T88-1 was 62-009. If there are still sheets being sold it's old stock.

As far as Target is concerned - best way to find out is to buy a sheet.. Problem is, the same Target topsheet is used in 3 or 4 different versions of the rubber. And it's not one of the cheaper Chinese sheets. Sanwei's playing the blue sponge/Pro/Provincial/National game that DHS started.

Iskandar