TTDNA renders its own neutral topsheet visualisation for this brand, generated from verified construction data.
SANWEI · Gear · Inverted
Gear Speed
A direct, quick sheet aimed at flat hitting and early timing close to the table. Its arc is lower than the Hyper build.
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
- Gear
- Category
- Inverted
- Official sponge degree
- 45° ±2
- Hardness scale
- Official SANWEI sponge degree (Chinese scale, no named standard)
- Published thicknesses
- 2.0 mm · 2.1 mm · MAX
- Published colours
- Red · Black
- Technologies
- TENSION SPONGE
- Country of manufacture
- China
- Sponge description
- Tension sponge
- Topsheet description
- Grippy tension top sheet
- 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
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 · 2.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 84 · Spin 82 · Control 87
Red · 2.1 mm
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 87 · Spin 84 · Control 85
Red · MAX
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 90 · Spin 85 · Control 82
Black · 2.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 84 · Spin 82 · Control 87
Black · 2.1 mm
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 87 · Spin 84 · Control 85
Black · MAX
Standard · Sponged · 45° ±2
Speed 90 · Spin 85 · Control 82
Surface classification
Grippy
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
- Direct offense · Close to table · Hitting
- Aliases
- SANWEI Gear Speed · Gear-Speed
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Known users
Offensive club and league players who want a spin-first inverted sheet on the forehand or backhand.
SANWEI publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.