Blade
Stiga
Clipper WoodPublic equipment pages list Stiga Clipper Wood, an all-wood 7-ply, not a DHS national mill. The shop SKU is a shakehand blank — his penhold handle is not this handle.
Players/Recent men’s top 50
ITTF top 50, 2021–2025CHNLeftpenholdDHS
Recent men’s top 50
Xu Xin equipment
Left-handed penhold with a reverse backhand. Mapped only where a public list names a shop SKU: Clipper Wood and National Hurricane 3 on the forehand.
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 NationalHurricane 3 National on the forehand, boosted on tour. Combined figures here are unboosted.
Backhand
Not named in this snapshot.
Reverse-backhand lists often name a tensor without one stable European SKU. The backhand is left empty rather than guessed.
Xu Xin is the modern penhold reference: left-handed, reverse-backhand loops, a tacky forehand. He sat in the men’s top 50 across the early 2020s and is not mixed into this week’s rank numbers.
The blade we link is Stiga Clipper Wood, because that is what public equipment pages name — not Hurricane Long 5. It is still a shakehand head. A penhold handle is a different blank. Treat the link as the closest EU wood, not a copy of a national special.
The forehand is National Hurricane 3. The reverse backhand is an inverted tensor in those same notes, but the exact sheet moves. We do not assign a Stiga rubber without a SKU. Combined specs on Hurricane 3 National stay unboosted.