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SANWEI · 388 Long Pips · Long pips
388D-1
The reference SANWEI long pips sheet. It reverses incoming spin strongly and is used for chopping and disruptive blocking away from the table.
Official SANWEI specifications
Official SANWEI models collected from the current manufacturer catalogue: the Target inverted family, the Gear and T88 families, the Pistol sheet and the 388 pips families.
- Series
- 388 Long Pips
- Category
- Long pips
- Official sponge degree
- 34° ±2
- Hardness scale
- Official SANWEI sponge degree (Chinese scale, no named standard)
- Published thicknesses
- OX · 0.5 mm · 1.0 mm · 1.5 mm
- Published colours
- Red · Black
- Technologies
- LONG PIPS GEOMETRY · FRICTION REDUCED SURFACE
- Country of manufacture
- China
- Sponge description
- Soft long pips sponge (sponged versions)
- Topsheet description
- Long pips, smooth surface
- Lifecycle status
- Active
- Last verified
- 1 August 2026
Sponge degrees are published by SANWEI on the Chinese degree scale without a named laboratory standard. TTDNA stores them exactly as published, with the published tolerance, and never relabels them Shore A, Shore C or ESN.
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are analytical 0 scores derived from official specifications, construction and verified category data. They are never official SANWEI 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
- 92
- Spin reversal
- 94
- Attackability
- 50
- Chop control
- 92
Confidence: high
Variants and configurations
8 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 · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 39 · Spin 42 · Control 92
Red · 0.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 46 · Spin 50 · Control 90
Red · 1.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 51 · Spin 52 · Control 87
Red · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 54 · Spin 53 · Control 85
Black · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 39 · Spin 42 · Control 92
Black · 0.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 46 · Spin 50 · Control 90
Black · 1.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 51 · Spin 52 · Control 87
Black · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 34° ±2
Speed 54 · Spin 53 · Control 85
Surface classification
Long pips
Surface classification (grippy, hybrid, tacky, very tacky) is a TTDNA editorial classification, not an official SANWEI metric.
Price
- List price
- Varies by retailer
No verified official SANWEI price snapshot is stored in this import, so prices are shown as varying by retailer. CNY and EUR prices are never converted into each other.
Playing characteristics
- Skill levels
- Intermediate · Advanced
- Play styles
- Modern defense · Disruptive · Blocking
- Aliases
- SANWEI 388D-1 · 388 D-1 · 388D1
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Known users
Defenders, choppers and disruptive blockers who rely on spin reversal rather than their own topspin.
SANWEI publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.