Sauer & Tröger · Modern Long Pips · Long pips
Monkey
A highly disruptive modern long-pips rubber with strong control, wide-bending pimples and a dampened sponge option.
Monkey uses widely spaced, relatively wide pimples that bend significantly under pressure. It combines high disruption and reversal with a softening response during stronger impact. The 0.6 mm sponge version adds damping while preserving close-table control, so the OX and sponge builds are best treated as two distinct feels.
Also written as Monkey Long Pimple · Monkey Long Pips · Ape · Sauer & Tröger Monkey
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Official Sauer & Tröger data
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Construction characteristics
- High pimple aspect ratio
- Wide pimple spacing
- Wide pimple heads
- Slightly roughened pimple heads
- Dampening sponge in the 0.6 mm version
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorially normalised 0–100 ratings. They are never an official Sauer & Tröger rating and never a conversion of the Sauer & Tröger manufacturer scale. Spin reversal is the returned rotation of the incoming ball. It is stored separately from the TTDNA spin rating, which measures the rubber's own spin production.
Strengths
- Very high disruption
- Strong spin reversal
- Excellent passive blocking
- Useful active counterattack
- Blue colour option
Weaknesses
- Requires specialised timing
- Less predictable than Easy P
- Limited conventional spin production
- OX and sponge versions feel substantially different
Best for
- Close-table long-pips players
- Disruptive blockers
- Players mixing passive and active strokes
Not ideal for
- Complete long-pips beginners
- Players wanting maximum classical chopping control
Data confidence
Variants and configurations
2 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.
Black · Red · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 36 · Spin 16 · Control 100
Black · Red · 0.6 mm
Standard · Sponged · Medium
Speed 48 · Spin 24 · Control 91
TTDNA ratings
Known users
Defenders, choppers and disruptive blockers who rely on spin reversal rather than their own topspin.
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