Blade
Butterfly
Fan Zhendong ALCThe EU shop SKU is Butterfly Fan Zhendong ALC, an outer Arylate-Carbon. Earlier bags and national specials are not this milling. Super ZLC is a different named wood.
Players/Recent men’s top 50
ITTF top 50, 2021–2025CHNRightshakehandButterfly
Recent men’s top 50
Fan Zhendong equipment
Olympic and world champion outside this week’s top 50. The European spare-part list is Fan Zhendong ALC plus National Hurricane 3 — not a personal national mill.
Reported equipment, mapped onto this catalogue. Not a lab test and not a sponsored list. Personal national-team woods are labelled when the EU SKU is only a sibling. Combined specs on product pages stay unboosted.
Forehand
DHS
Hurricane 3 NationalNational Hurricane 3 is the usual reported forehand, boosted on tour. Combined figures here are unboosted.
Backhand
DHS
Hurricane 3 NationalOften listed as Hurricane 3 National as well. Some later notes swap the backhand. We do not invent a tensor to fill the gap.
Fan Zhendong was a fixture of the men’s top 10 through the early 2020s and is outside the 31 Aug – 7 Sep 2026 top 50 on this snapshot. Public equipment notes from the Butterfly years name Fan Zhendong ALC, with National Hurricane 3 on the forehand.
Fan Zhendong ALC is a Viscaria-type outer ALC that European shops list. It is not Innerforce and it is not a DHS national special. Super ZLC under his name is a separate, stiffer wood — open that SKU if a list specifies ZLC, do not treat it as the same blade.
The rubber is still boosted Chinese tacky on tour. Combined speed and spin on Hurricane 3 National stay factory. Dignics 09C and Hybrid K3 are the European doors if you want the grip without a boosting calendar.