Customer review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra

External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on December 11, 2022

I was very curious when I saw the designation subtitle of this rubber ("for the flexible allrounder"), which I think, does make sense looking at its playing characteristics. Somehow, Victas managed to produce something rather unseen amongst many ESN produced rubbers. The base recipe is a hefty, but only medium firm rubber topsheet with a hard 50 degree sponge, but there is an additional twist, which is the horizontal pimple geometry of the topsheet (this makes the coupling with the sponge to be felt more direct), which I haven't seen in ESN manufactured rubbers so far. This recipe also translates to a hard enough feeling on powerful strokes, but with good deformation ability and longer ball contact time on less powerful strokes, acting as a dampening buffer zone, which makes execution of good quality underspin/sidespin shots and precise power adjustments (short game, blocking, drop shots) very easy. This dampening effect is most noticeable, when the rubber is new, but is still definitely there later on. However, the sponge underneath is lively enough, so while this rubber is not meant to be used to win points by speed, it is still usable in mid-distance play, and can be effective on both sides for spin-dominant strategies (of course, larger than usual swings are rewarded with greater pressure potential). The throw angle seems to be medium/medium-high, so the arcs are safe. However, hitting countertopspin on low backspin ball feels a bit more difficult because of the lacking initial bounce and longer contact time, but in turn, this makes blocking extra secure, and staying in rally is easy in most of the situations. It's worth mentioning, that while Victas makes silver wrappings for their (at least slightly) tacky rubbers, this rubber is not tacky at all. For people thinking ESN rubbers are too bouncy, this rubber is a good candidate to try, as it plays very reliably to support the player truly as an allrounder (my favourite for this purpose) even at higher levels.

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