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SANWEI · T88 · Inverted
T88 Taiji
A soft tacky sheet built around spin and touch rather than speed. Serves and short pushes stay very low, and loops need active acceleration.
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
- T88
- Category
- Inverted
- Official sponge degree
- 39° ±1
- 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
- TACKY CHINESE TOP SHEET · OPEN-PORE SPONGE
- Country of manufacture
- China
- Sponge description
- Soft Chinese sponge
- Topsheet description
- Tacky Chinese 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 · 39° ±1
Speed 66 · Spin 91 · Control 99
Red · 2.1 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39° ±1
Speed 69 · Spin 93 · Control 97
Red · MAX
Standard · Sponged · 39° ±1
Speed 72 · Spin 94 · Control 94
Black · 2.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39° ±1
Speed 66 · Spin 91 · Control 99
Black · 2.1 mm
Standard · Sponged · 39° ±1
Speed 69 · Spin 93 · Control 97
Black · MAX
Standard · Sponged · 39° ±1
Speed 72 · Spin 94 · Control 94
Surface classification
Very tacky
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
- Topspin offense · Close to table · Controlled offense
- Aliases
- SANWEI T88 Taiji · T88-Taiji · T88 Tai Ji
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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.