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Yinhe Galaxy · Pluto · Medium pips
Pluto
A medium-pips rubber producing sinking trajectories and disruptive close-table blocks while retaining useful attacking ability.
Official Yinhe specifications
Official Yinhe data: sponge type, hardness grades, published thicknesses, colours, product codes and ITTF approval status, taken from Yinhe's own catalogue and current approval information.
- Brand
- Yinhe Galaxy · China
- Series
- Pluto
- Category
- Medium pips
- Surface
- Pips-out
- Product code
- 9043
- Sponge
- Standard sponge
- Hardness options
- Medium (TTDNA band)
- Hardness scale
- TTDNA hardness band
- Published thicknesses
- Standard sheet range
- Colours
- Red · Black
- Technologies
- Standard build
- Competition status
- ITTF approved
- Ball type
- Standard 40+
- Last verified
- 2 August 2026
Yinhe lists hardness either as a Chinese sponge degree or as a named grade. Both are shown exactly as published and are never relabelled Shore A, Shore C or ESN. No reliable official Yinhe list price is published per region, so no price is shown rather than an invented one.
TTDNA ratings
Confidence: Medium-high
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorially normalised 0–100 ratings. They are never an official Yinhe rating and never a conversion of Yinhe's own speed or spin scale.
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
- 76
- Spin reversal
- 54
- Attackability
- 81
- Chop control
- 70
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.
Red · Standard sheet range
Pluto Medium (TTDNA band) · Sponged · Medium (TTDNA band)
Speed 7.3 · Spin 3.8 · Control 8.5
Black · Standard sheet range
Pluto Medium (TTDNA band) · Sponged · Medium (TTDNA band)
Speed 7.3 · Spin 3.8 · Control 8.5
Assessment
Pluto sits between short and long pips in behaviour. It is designed for close-table blocking, pushing and mixed attacking play, with a noticeably sinking and awkward trajectory.
Strengths
- Strong sinking effect
- Good close-table blocking
- Useful flat attack
- Creates uncomfortable trajectories
- More attacking potential than most long pips
Weaknesses
- Less spin reversal than long pips
- Lower spin production than inverted rubber
- Requires adaptation in timing and racket angle
Best for
- Close-table blockers
- Medium-pips attackers
- Players seeking disruption without abandoning attack
Not ideal for
- Traditional loopers
- Deep defensive choppers
Player fit
- Skill levels
- Intermediate · Advanced
- Play styles
- ALL+ · OFF- · Close Table
- Recommended side
- Backhand · Forehand
- Aliases
- Galaxy Pluto · Yinhe Pluto Medium Pips
Known users
All-round players who want pips that mix blocking and hitting with some spin of their own.
Yinhe Galaxy publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.