Good in theory, but pretty much impossible to implement and police.

All that is needed is for each player to provide a list of equipment that they need. ITTF will assemble and provide the racket for practice and competition play at the tourney. Player will buy the setup from ITTF at discount and keep it but cannot reuse in other ITTF tournaments where they will receive a newly built racket Thus randomizing the error rates.

Player will have no chance to "dope" or "transform" their equipment into a super-duper super-soldier weapons.

What is there to complain about ?

Blades, Rubbers and Balls are controlled by ITTF, provided from manufacturers to ITTF specifications, given to players without modifications, no leeway to change or modify equipment is possible in the tourney.

After the tourney player now has a brand-new setup that he din't have to pay full-price on. He gets it cheap so the poor players can afford to spend a bit more on travel / training. None of the top players need to worry about their equipment unless they are cheaters and excessively depend on boosting/doping/speed-gluing. Anyway top players get sponsored. More ppl will willingly buy the expensive stuff since now it will be believable that top player equipment is same as commercial equipment, only difference is ability to use it fully.

No more boosters, speed-glue or other carcinogens in TT. Players don't have to risk getting cancer and death and medical bills due to harmful chemicals for sake of medals/country/politics/pride/extortion/money/etc.

The worst problem here will be defects in manufacturing. ITTF can start penalising the fat-cat manufacturers and patent-holders with heavy fines and revoking licenses for pissant products. ITTF can stop punishing players and start improving the sporting conditions and standards. Which is their whole purpose of existing. Right now ITTF is a corrupt and vile organization that isn't doing anything at all for the players or the sport. Just lining the pockets of big-fat-cats inside and out.

All that is needed is for each player to provide a list of equipment that they need. ITTF will assemble and provide the racket for practice and competition play at the tourney. Player will buy the setup from ITTF at discount and keep it but cannot reuse in other ITTF tournaments where they will receive a newly built racket Thus randomizing the error rates.

Player will have no chance to "dope" or "transform" their equipment into a super-duper super-soldier weapons.

What is there to complain about ?

Blades, Rubbers and Balls are controlled by ITTF, provided from manufacturers to ITTF specifications, given to players without modifications, no leeway to change or modify equipment is possible in the tourney.

After the tourney player now has a brand-new setup that he din't have to pay full-price on. He gets it cheap so the poor players can afford to spend a bit more on travel / training. None of the top players need to worry about their equipment unless they are cheaters and excessively depend on boosting/doping/speed-gluing. Anyway top players get sponsored. More ppl will willingly buy the expensive stuff since now it will be believable that top player equipment is same as commercial equipment, only difference is ability to use it fully.

No more boosters, speed-glue or other carcinogens in TT. Players don't have to risk getting cancer and death and medical bills due to harmful chemicals for sake of medals/country/politics/pride/extortion/money/etc.

The worst problem here will be defects in manufacturing. ITTF can start penalising the fat-cat manufacturers and patent-holders with heavy fines and revoking licenses for pissant products. ITTF can stop punishing players and start improving the sporting conditions and standards. Which is their whole purpose of existing. Right now ITTF is a corrupt and vile organization that isn't doing anything at all for the players or the sport. Just lining the pockets of big-fat-cats inside and out.

Bizarre. I don't understand the point of this, to be honest. Who CARES what they use, or whether they can get special rubber from the manufacturers? Pro player rubber envy??? Why???? There's so much ELSE to be envious about - Timo Boll's great speed and ball control, for one. Or the millions of Euros he makes playing table tennis. THAT'S worth envy. Why bother about whether you can get the same rubbers he can get???

Iskandar

Besides being totally impractical and giving a crazy level of control to any organization, let alone the ITTF that can't even manage a website, making a brand new racket every tournament will hamstring players that use rubbers with a bit of a break-in period (such as the Hurricane series, and practically every kind of pips-out rubber). I sure as heck wouldn't want to have to deal with a different blade with slightly different feel all the time, either - a recipe for unwatchable tournaments full of stupid misses.

Meaning that TT equipment manufacturers need to produce already broken-in Hurricane rubbers and better QC on ALL their products and make the SAME materials available to ALL PLAYERS. Not just ppl with deep pockets.

DHS are on record as saying that it is not possible for them to produce H3 National in large quantities, as it takes a longer time and much more strict quality control. But it is relatively easy to find now, in shops like TT11 as well as the online Chinese sources, if you can and want to afford it.

No way would I trust in the performance of a bat that I'd never used before, put together by someone I didn't know. Or even in the ability of the ITTF to organise and carry this out flawlessly. To say nothing of the reaction of a pro currently using a blade he's had for many years, and which may not even be made anymore.

What's to prevent them from selling the "already broken in" H3 for $300 a sheet? They'll continue selling the $30 sheets of "ordinary" H3, of course.. but that's still not what ... er, Timo Boll doesn't use H3 anyhow ..

Iskandar