Players/Men’s singles
World #2FRARightpenholdTibhar
Men’s singles
Félix Lebrun equipment
World #2 and the penhold exception at the top of the men’s list. Tibhar named carbon, Hybrid K3 both sides — a European stack you can actually order.
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
Tibhar
Hybrid K3Tour sheet is often listed as Hybrid K3 Pro. This catalogue SKU is Hybrid K3 — same family, not a different topsheet.
Backhand
Tibhar
Hybrid K3Same family both wings. Penhold backhand still uses an inverted sheet, not Chinese pips.
Félix Lebrun is the rare world-top penhold in the tensor era. The named wood is Tibhar Félix Lebrun Hyper Carbon (also sold as an ALL sibling). WTT Plus (May 2026) listed Hybrid K3 Pro on both wings. We map that to Hybrid K3: Pro is a shop hardness/version, not a different rubber recipe.
K3 is Tibhar’s tackier hybrid, not Evolution MX-P. Combined spin sits with Dignics 09C on this index; the sponge is still German-hybrid, not boosted Hurricane. That is why this setup is the one European clubs can copy without a boosting calendar — and why it will not play like Wang Chuqin’s National H3.
Penhold geometry is the other half of the story. The same sheets on a shakehand Hyper Carbon are legal and common; they are not his stroke. Open the Setup lab with this trio if you want the spare-part list, then decide whether you actually reverse-penhold.