Customer review for Donic Baracuda

External Review for Donic Baracuda on June 8, 2010

The Barracuda is a Tensor from Donic that has a tackier surface than their older Tensors. It results in great spin when serving which is my only gripe against Tensor rubbers. This rubber is also not very fast for a Tensor and plays almost like the older generation rubbers. Except it has a soft sponge giving outstanding control. I think for an intermediate player who won't glue this is an excellent rubber to use as it provides plenty of control. I'd say speed is similar to Donic F3 but spin and control are better.

I'm a big believer in soft sponged rubbers and med speed blades with good feel. The sponge is fairly porous, entire sheet was 67.6g un-cut.

Speed is linear, in that controlling how hard the ball comes off the racket is very easy. Unlike say Tenergy 05 which if you hit just a bit harder it can go flying. With the friction of the top sheet you also don't get balls that slip off as you do with Tenergy. Of course the speed is much slower with this rubber.

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