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Friendship 729 · Pips · Medium pips
563 SP
A medium-pips covering with a sponge tuned for attack. It sits between short and long pips: enough disruption to unsettle topspin, enough directness to punch through blocks.
Official specifications
Friendship covering families and commercial editions are kept separate so sponge, hardness and regional versions do not create duplicate products.
- Official covering name
- 563 SP
- Series
- Pips
- Category
- Medium pips
- ITTF approval code
- 27-017
- ITTF approval status
- Approval status unknown
- Published hardness
- 39°
- Hardness scale
- Chinese sponge degree (no named laboratory standard)
- Published thicknesses
- 1.5 mm · 1.8 mm · 2.0 mm
- Verified colours
- Red · Black
- Ball type
- Standard
- Sponge description
- Standard sponge
- Topsheet description
- Standard pimpled topsheet
- Country of manufacture
- China
- Availability
- Currently produced
- Stock
- Stock unknown
- Last verified
- 1 August 2026
Friendship publishes sponge hardness on Chinese degree scales without a named laboratory standard. TTDNA stores each value exactly as published and never converts it to Shore A, Shore C or an ESN equivalent.
Colours are only listed when an ITTF covering entry verifies them. Red and black are never assumed.
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are analytical 0-100 scores derived from construction, category and verified specifications. They are never official Friendship ratings and are never shown as manufacturer values.
Physical characteristics
Playing characteristics
Pips characteristics
Spin reversal is the returned rotation of the incoming ball. It is a separate value from the TTDNA spin rating, which measures own spin production.
- Disruption
- 72
- Spin reversal
- 42
- Attackability
- 82
- Chop control
- 62
Variants and configurations
6 variantsColour, thickness and configuration are variants of one model — never separate products. Colour never changes a rating, MAX and OX stay qualitative labels, and OX carries no sponge hardness.
Red · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 74 · Spin 54 · Control 89
Red · 1.8 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 77 · Spin 56 · Control 87
Red · 2.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 80 · Spin 57 · Control 84
Black · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 74 · Spin 54 · Control 89
Black · 1.8 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 77 · Spin 56 · Control 87
Black · 2.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39°
Speed 80 · Spin 57 · Control 84
Surface classification
Medium pips
Surface classification (grippy, slightly tacky, tacky, very tacky, pips, anti) is a TTDNA editorial classification, not an official Friendship metric.
Price
- List price
- Varies by retailer
No verified official Friendship price snapshot is stored in this import, so prices are shown as varying by retailer and are never converted between currencies.
Suitability
- Skill levels
- Intermediate · Advanced
- Play styles
- Disruptive · Close to table · Blocking
- Aliases
- Friendship 563 SP · 563SP · 729 563 SP
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Known users
Fast-block and hitting players — pen-hold forehands and close-to-table backhands that punish topspin early.
Friendship 729 publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.