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This is how the newly established RULE for approval of new brand rubbers came off for now. This is a new rule provision to appear in the document T4 as of June 2020.
The rule has as follows
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RECOGNIZABILITY of SANDWICH RUBBERS.
■ The sponge of one type may only differ in colour and thickness.
■ If manufacturer wishes to market the same topsheet with sponge or sponges of another type, having different density, hardness, material, etc., the approval fees will be charged separately for each new sponge, and the topsheet must be moulded with a new model name ...
It took me some two years to get EQC Chair to take this medicine down to stomach. Bitter one and yet effectual.■ The sponge of one type may only differ in colour and thickness.
■ If manufacturer wishes to market the same topsheet with sponge or sponges of another type, having different density, hardness, material, etc., the approval fees will be charged separately for each new sponge, and the topsheet must be moulded with a new model name ...
ps// all the sandwich rubbers on market using a variety of sponges with the same topsheet should be re-attested under the new provision. Most of the rubbers in question are china-made products, you know. The best praised advantage of the T4 revision is to enable players to tell the sandwich principal characteristics (speed, hardness, friction) just visually, without even touching on the opponent's rubber.
Vlady Samsonov did favour the new T4 very much. So glad for all our pros, lower-ranked players and newcomers to the sport.
Those many unrecognizable sandwich rubbers did bring in a huge mess to the sport, and we're pleased to set all things going right, now.
/Be happy/
