cornilleau（コニヨール）

Explanation

The rubber reviewed on this page is from the French table tennis maker cornilleau. In Japan, juic is the distributor. Although it is not a manufacturer with a strong presence in Japan, Cornilleau’s racket rubber is not bad at all. Cornilleau was founded in 1946 and is a historic manufacturer that began developing competitive rubber and rackets in 2009 under former world champion Jean-Philippe Gatien (France). Currently, they have contracts with different manufacturers, but the world’s top fantasista Simon Gauzy (France) and the fastest two-handed Hugo Calderano (Brazil) have used Conyor’s equipment in the past. It seems that it was. For example, Conyor’s 9-plywood Gatien Conquest (Gatien Conquest, thickness 6.0 mm, 97 ± 5 g) and Target Pro series rubber to be reviewed this time are said to be mentioned. Also, I remember seeing an article in the World Table Tennis Kingdom that a business team belonging to the Japan League got a good impression of Cornilleau’s racket and rubber in the past. Even in table tennis navigation, there are some reviews that it has exceeded the monster rubber Tenergy, and I think that it is a rubber with very high expectations.
In addition, this Target Pro series is said to be manufactured by the technology of Michelin, a tire maker famous for restaurant ratings.

Published performance value

By the summer of 2020, there are four Target Pro series. This time katsuo000 is trying out X51 and H47. The last number is sponge hardness, and you can choose from four types of hardness. It is very easy to understand that the speed performance changes depending on the difference in sponge hardness.
The rubber that katsuo000 is paying attention to is the Target Pro XD series that was posted together. This Target Pro XD series is a rubber that has just recently been released. For katsuo000, I am interested in Target Pro XD 52.5, which seems to have the highest hardness. I would like to review it if it can be done within the year.

Target Pro GT-H47 sticking and weight

It’s a normal weight! It’s moderately soft to the touch and seems to be quite easy to handle. I think it’s a high-end rubber-like weight.

Target Pro GT-H47
    Made in Germany
・Sponge Thickness: 2.0 mm, MAX
・Speed: 15.5
・Spin: 17.0
・Sponge stiffness: MH (47)
・6,800 yen + tax
・70 g 'before cut) → 47 g (after cut)

Three features of Target Pro GT-H47

Super honor student rubber without socks! A rubber just like Tenergy!

I felt the goodness of the first-class product in terms of ball bite, control, stability, spin performance, and speed performance! The ball has a good hold for its hardness, and it can be used well in the back! The arch line is a little low and tends to be a straight ball, and I felt that it was an aggressive rubber in a sense of stability. If you use it in the foreground, you can get a strong amount of rotation and withstand a strong impact, but on the other hand, it has a sufficient amount of rotation and speed even in the back, and it is easy to hit meat, so it is a very smooth rubber! If you are interested, why don’t you try it once.

Push, the stop stops firmly! Easy to do counter drive! Just an honor student!

On the contrary, when the hardness is soft, it is easy to reach the racket plate and it is easy to bounce. As a result, it may be difficult to make a tsutsuki or stop, but this Target Pro GT-H47 was very easy to make a tsutsuki or stop. Perhaps the sheet is strong, and the sponge is designed so that it is difficult to bite into a certain force or less, and it is easy to bite into a certain force or more. Therefore, if anything, it is a rubber that is stronger against the rally of the upper rotation than the downward rotation hit, and although it stops suddenly on the receive table, it is a rubber that gives a sense of stability and the amount of rotation as it becomes a rally. I felt that! I think it is a characteristic required for modern table tennis! It’s just an honor student rubber!

A rubber rally with a sense of stability!

Rather than a strong amount of rotation, I think that it is a rubber that competes with stability, ease of counter drive, and rally meetings! I don’t think it’s a rubber that competes with the power and habit of one shot. Compared to Tenergy 05, I feel that the amount of rotation is higher in Tenergy, but it is easy to handle, difficult to be affected by rotation, easy to counter drive, meet and smash, etc. I think that it is a rubber that can be handled in the same category as Tenergy 05! GT-H47 seems to be cheaper and has a longer life than Tenergy, so if you have no reason to have Tenergy 05 and you are choosing Tenergy, I recommend you to try GT-H47 once. increase.

Each technics review

Forehand

Light hit
The impression was that it was neither too hard nor too soft.

Drive on long balls and rallies
The bite is good. I didn’t feel like falling. On the other hand, I felt that the amount of rotation was a little insufficient in the foreground. Since the sponge is easy to bite into = soft, there was a part where people who used adhesive rubber for the fore felt that it was a little too soft and the amount of rotation was weak.

Drive with open face
I didn’t feel like hitting the racket board, and I was able to fly while spinning, which was a very good impression. This part may be due to the sponge itself, not the hardness of the rubber. This part is a very important factor when hitting a speed drive, and I think that the feeling of falling tends to become stronger when it reaches the racket. Although it is a part of personal feeling, I would appreciate it if you could refer to it.

Loop (top spin) drive against back spin
I felt that the loop drive could be released with the minimum amount of rotation and high quality. Therefore, I felt that it could be used for the foreground.

Speed drive against back spin
It was very easy to do! Although it bites well, it does not reach the racket board, and there is a feeling that it can be rotated firmly and there was a sense of stability.

Curve / shoot drive
It wasn’t that hard rubber, so it wasn’t harsh, but I was able to hit it with a curve / shoot. I thought that the lack of this good balance was like this rubber.

Block
It was easy to do. For a strong drive, it felt like it was spinning, but overall it was easy to do. This was also a good feeling.

Counter drive
I’m glad that the overwrite counter drive was easy to do.

Stop
It was easy to stop. I didn’t feel like I was flying with Poyon.

Push
I felt that I had a long time holding the ball because I could grip it firmly. It was easy to control. I think it will expire.

Serve
It was good to be able to cut it firmly. I felt that the minimum amount of rotation could be obtained.

Backhand

Light hit
I didn’t feel the hardness.

Drive on long balls and rallies
Even if I hit it quickly, it took a drive without permission and it was a speed drive, but it was stable. It’s a good rubber!

Loop (top spin) drive against back spin
I felt that there were many net mistakes, probably because the arc line was a little low. It may be an arm problem.

Speed drive against back spin
This was easy to do on the contrary. It may be because it tends to be a meat type speed drive.

Block
It was easy to do because it wasn’t affected by the rotation so much, even though it bite into it.

Stop
It was easy to do.

Push
It was good that this was also low. I also felt that I had a ball.

Chiquita
It was very easy to do. I was able to do Chiquita with confidence.

Comparison with other rubbers (personal impressions)

Max spin amount
　Target Pro GT-X51 ≧ Tenergy 05 > Tenergy 80 > Target Pro GT-H47 > Tenergy 64

Ball holding
　Tenergy 05 ≧ Target Pro GT-H47 > Tenergy 80
　Tenergy 05 > Target Pro GT-X51 > Tenergy 05 Hard

Speed
　Dignics 05 ＞ Tenergy 80 ≧ Target Pro GT-H47 > Tenergy 05
　Dignics 05 ＞ Target Pro GT-X51 ≧ Tenergy 05 Hard > Tenergy 05

Explanation

The rubber reviewed on this page is from the French table tennis maker cornilleau. In Japan, juic is the distributor. Although it is not a manufacturer with a strong presence in Japan, Cornilleau’s racket rubber is not bad at all. Cornilleau was founded in 1946 and is a historic manufacturer that began developing competitive rubber and rackets in 2009 under former world champion Jean-Philippe Gatien (France). Currently, they have contracts with different manufacturers, but the world’s top fantasista Simon Gauzy (France) and the fastest two-handed Hugo Calderano (Brazil) have used Conyor’s equipment in the past. It seems that it was. For example, Conyor’s 9-plywood Gatien Conquest (Gatien Conquest, thickness 6.0 mm, 97 ± 5 g) and Target Pro series rubber to be reviewed this time are said to be mentioned. Also, I remember seeing an article in the World Table Tennis Kingdom that a business team belonging to the Japan League got a good impression of Cornilleau’s racket and rubber in the past. Even in table tennis navigation, there are some reviews that it has exceeded the monster rubber Tenergy, and I think that it is a rubber with very high expectations.
It is said that this Target Pro series is manufactured by the technology of Michelin, a tire maker famous for its restaurant rating.

Published performance value

By the summer of 2020, there are four Target Pro series. This time katsuo000 is trying out X51 and H47. The last number is sponge hardness, and you can choose from four types of hardness. It is very easy to understand that the speed performance changes depending on the difference in sponge hardness.
The rubber that katsuo000 is paying attention to is the Target Pro XD series that was posted together. This Target Pro XD series is a rubber that was recently launched (September 2020). For katsuo000, I am interested in Target Pro XD 52.5, which seems to have the highest hardness. I would like to review it if it can be done by the end of the year! I expect Max to be a pretty good rubber!

Target Pro GT-X51 sticking and weight

The Target Pro GT-X51 feels like it’s packed! Still less than 50 g. I have a very high balance feeling!

Target Pro GT-X51
    Made in Germany
・Sponge Thickness: 2.0 mm, MAX
・Speed: 16.0
・Spin: 17.0
・Sponge stiffness: H (51)
・6,800 yen + tax
・72 g (before cut) → 49 g (after cut)

Three features of Target Pro GT-X51

A rubber that adds speed and power to a sense of stability!

Target Pro GT-X51 inherits the stability of GT-H47 and feels more speed performance and power! What I especially felt the feature was the improvement of speed performance as shown in the published performance value! Of course, the rubber is harder to the touch when the GT-X51 is touched than the GT-H47, but the bite is very good like the GT-H47, and it is easier to handle than the rubber made in Germany with a hardness of 50 ° or more by other manufacturers. It stood out! Also, hard rubber tends to require impact to hit speed drive, and it tends to be a rubber that emphasizes rotation, but GT-X51 was hard but speed drive was easy to hit! I felt that the speed performance of GT-X51 was overwhelmingly higher than that of GT-H47, and the spin performance was slightly improved because the rubber was harder.

Just like the GT-H47, Tsuttsuki and the stop stop firmly! Easy to do counter drive!

Inheriting the features of GT-H47, GT-X51 also stopped at Tsuttsuki and stopped, and I felt that counter drive was easy to do! It’s very nice!

A rubber that competes with speed and power for a sense of stability!

I think the GT-X51 is a rubber that inherits the stability of the GT-H47 and competes with even greater speed and power! Compared to the high-end rubber of other manufacturers, I felt that the speed performance was characteristic, and it was a rubber like the overseas version Tenergy 80 (Tenergy 80) or the slightly hardened Tenergy 80 hard (?).

Each technics review

Forehand

Light hit
It doesn’t feel hard at all in the fore hand.

Drive on long balls and rallies
Like the GT-H47, it bite well and I didn’t feel it falling. Also, I think it makes up for the lack of rotation that I felt with the GT-H47. It’s a good rubber!

Drive with open face
Like the GT-H47, I didn’t feel like hitting the racket board, and I was very impressed with the fact that I could fly while spinning. I think this feature makes it easier to hit the speed drive.

Loop (top spin) drive against back spin
The loop drive was also good in rotation and quality. Therefore, I felt that it could be used for the foreground.

Speed drive against back spin
It was very easy to do! Normally, I think it’s difficult to get hard, but it was easier than I imagined.

Curve / shoot drive
Because I don’t feel the hardness, there is no excitement.

Block
It was easy to do. Overall it was easy to do. This was also a good feeling.

Counter drive
I’m glad that the overwrite counter drive was easy to do.

Stop
It was easy to stop. I didn’t feel like I was flying with Poyon.

Push
I felt that I had a long time holding the ball because I could grip it firmly. It was easy to control. It has expired.

Serve
It was good to be able to cut it firmly. I felt that a sufficient amount of rotation could be obtained with the fore.

Backhand

Light hit
I didn’t feel that much hardness in the back.

Drive on long balls and rallies
It was stable even if I hit it quickly. However, since it is still hard, the back sometimes had a hardness and a drop due to insufficient impact. I think you can make up for it with enough practice.

Loop (top spin) drive against back spin
The arc line is low, but I was able to apply enough rotation.

Speed drive against back spin
I was quite surprised to see this. However, there is no weight.

Block
It was easy to do because it wasn’t affected by the rotation so much, even though it bite into it.

Stop
It was easy to do.

Push
It was good that this was also low. I felt that I had a ball and it was easy to cut.

Chiquita
It was very easy to do. I was able to do Chiquita with confidence.

Comparison with other rubbers (personal impressions)

Max spin amount
　Dignics 05 > Tenergy 05 Hard > Target Pro GT-X51 ≧ Tenergy 05 > Tenergy 80

Ball holding
　Tenergy 05 ≧ Target Pro GT-H47 > Tenergy 80
　Tenergy 05 > Target Pro GT-X51 > Tenergy 05 Hard

Speed
　Dignics 05 ＞ Tenergy 80 ≧ Target Pro GT-H47 > Tenergy 05
　Dignics 05 ＞ Target Pro GT-X51 ≧ Tenergy 05 Hard > Tenergy 05

Explanation

The rubber reviewed on this page is from the French table tennis maker Cornilleau, and will be the latest rubber in the Target Pro series to be sold in the fall of 2020. In Japan, juic is the distributor. Although it is not a manufacturer with a strong presence in Japan, Cornilleau’s racket rubber is not bad at all. Cornilleau is a historic manufacturer founded in 1946 and began developing competitive rubber and rackets in 2009 under former world champion Jean-Philippe Gatien (France). Currently, they have contracts with different manufacturers, but the world’s top fantasista Simon Gauzy (France) and the fastest two-handed Hugo Calderano (Brazil) have used Cornilleau equipment in the past. It seems that it was. For example, Cornilleau’s 9-plywood Gatien Conquest (Gatien Conquest, thickness 6.0 mm, 97 ± 5 g) and Target Pro series rubber to be reviewed this time are said to be mentioned. Also, I remember seeing an article in the World Table Tennis Kingdom that a business team belonging to the Japan League got a good impression of Cornilleau’s racket and rubber in the past. Even in table tennis navigation, there are some reviews that it has exceeded the monster rubber Tenergy, and I think that it is a rubber with very high expectations.

In addition, this Target Pro series is said to be manufactured by the technology of Michelin, a tire maker famous for restaurant ratings.

For the Target Pro series, we have reviewed the Target Pro GT-X51 (Target Pro GT-X51) and Target Pro GT-H47 (Target Pro GT-H47) in the past. These two pieces have a very good shot feeling, and the hardness is hard to break, making it a rubber that feels good and easy to handle. However, the amount of rotation was a little insufficient, and I felt that the target pro GT-H47 was inferior to the Tenergy 05, and the target pro GT-X51 had a high rotation amount but was difficult to handle. It was a fun rubber to touch because the color of the sponge differs depending on the hardness, and the ease of handling and the good shot feeling are outstandingly good.

Target Pro GT-X51：
Target Pro GT-H47：

After all, the post-Tenergy rubber in the early days was designed to obtain the amount of rotation by making the seat thicker than the Tenergy in order to increase the amount of rotation, or conversely to give up the amount of rotation and pursue the shot feeling. I think it has become. The evolutionary post-Tenergy rubber in recent years seems to be a high-performance rubber without impairing the amount of rotation and shot feeling by combining the technology that can make the seat thinner (probably a new sponge with good bite)! On the contrary, I think that the number of quirky balls (the amount of rotation of the balls is difficult to match) seen in German rubber is decreasing.
I think that this Target Pro XD-52.5 is also a rubber that is categorized as a post-tenergy tension rubber or an evolved Tenergy tension rubber that has appeared in recent years. It seems that the technology has advanced so that thin sheets can be adopted for Rasanter R53 and Rasanter R48, which are classified into the same post-Tenergy tension or evolutionary Tenergy tension in katsuo000. As for the new rubber in recent years, I think that rubber with thin sheets is appearing one after another!

Published performance value

It is clear that Target Pro XD-52.5 is a spin-type tension rubber with the highest spin performance and speed performance among Cornilleau rubbers. In addition, the hardness comparison by a hardness tester, which shows a certain degree of correlation with performance and ease of use, is shown below.

Again, Target Pro XD-52.5 is a little heavy, but the difference between the seat side value and the sponge side value of shore a is as large as Tenergy 05. High quality European rubber in recent years is heavy, but the difference in shore a is clearly larger than in the early post-Tenergy rubbers! Compared to Butterfly’s rubber, the lightness of Butterfly’s rubber stands out, but it can be said that the advantage of being heavy can be said to be the high quality European rubber in recent years. After all, it can be said that it is a rubber that is closer to Tenergy than Dignics.

Target Pro XD-52.5 Weight and Paste

It was the same cream-colored sponge as Target Pro GT-X51.

Target Pro XD-52.5 weighed 54 g. The total weight of the rubber is 73 g, so I thought it was heavy, but it’s still heavy, isn’t it? This time too, I put it on Virtuoso AC. The blade area is 158 x 150 mm, which is a little wider than the regular size of the butterfly (157 x 150 mm), so I think it can actually be as high as 53 g.

Target Pro XD-52.5
    Spin Tension
・Sponge thickness: thick (2.0 mm)、Extra thick (Max)
・Spin: 17.5
・Speed: 17.0
・Sponge stiffness: H (52.5)
・8,100 yen + tax
・73 g (before cut) → 54 g (after cut)

Three features of Target Pro XD-52.5

This time is also inner carbon. I felt it was easy to handle. Please note that the image may be different if it is attached to the outer carbon.

Outstanding speed performance and spin performance!

To be honest, I didn’t expect that much, but although it was heavy, it had outstanding speed and spin performance. I think that it may be attached to the inner carbon racket, but I was impressed with the speed and stability of the drive with the backhand, which is slightly inferior in technology. In terms of hitting the ball, the ball is not so long-lasting and pops out quickly, so I thought it would be like 80 as a seat shape. I think it’s a seat that can give speed more than the strength of holding a ball. At the first hit, I used it thinking “It’s easy to handle, but I’m a little dissatisfied with the amount of rotation and power?” He said, “It’s easy to handle, but it takes a lot of rotation!” And I was able to enjoy the very high performance!

DNA Platinum XH (STIGA): like Tenergy 05
Rasanter R53 (andro): like Tenergy 80
Evolution MX-D (TIBHAR): like Tenergy 64
Taerget Pro XD-52.5 (cornilleau): like Tenergy 80 New

I thought the R53 was like 80, but in terms of ease of handling, it outperformed the Target Pro XD52.5. On the contrary, I think that R53 is higher in the trolls and the pressure felt by the other party.

As an aside, it may be difficult to differentiate if it is a rubber that requires intermediate hardness, ease of handling and performance, but since it is the latest high-end rubber and it is a flagship rubber of each company, it is firmly differentiated even with a short trial hit. I felt like I was there. When looking for individuality, I felt that R53 and MX-D were DNA Plastic XH or Target Pro XD-52.5 if they wanted ease of handling and high rotational performance.

Easy to handle without feeling sponge stiffness: 52.5!

At first, I felt that it was a little heavy and difficult to operate, but I felt that it was easier to handle than I had imagined. In the past, I pasted Tenergy 80 FX on the outer carbon Lin Goyuan ALC and hit it repeatedly with the back, but although I could get speed and rotation amount, it was not very stable. On the other hand, it is easy to handle with inner carbon, but when I hit it with Target Pro XD-52.5 this time, I was surprised that it was extremely stable. The speed and rotation were very flexible and I felt comfortable. The speed performance was high, and at first I was worried that it would be over, but I felt that it was sinking by drawing an arch line more firmly than I felt. For example, if it is a Tenergy rubber, it will rotate, but it will be difficult to speed up due to its hardness, or if you play it, it will speed up but it will not rotate and it will not be stable. I felt it was symmetrical to what I felt at that time. I felt that it would be a new option as a back rubber!
In the block, I thought that it would be easily affected by the rotation of the opponent because of the good bite, but that was not the case. Probably because of the weight. It was very stable because it was heavy for biting. I felt that it would be a better option than Tenergy if I didn’t care about the weight!

Heavy and high rotation performance Tenergy 80

To summarize briefly, I felt that the Tenergy 80, which is heavy and has high rotational performance, is just the case. If you find the Dignics 80’s hardness to be difficult to use, the Target Pro XD-52.5 may be the better choice. Since it is heavy, it is suitable for the foreground, but by devising the rubber area, it is a rubber that can be used for the back as well!

Each technics review

Fore hand

Back hand

Comparison with other rubbers (personal impressions)

Comparison within evolutionary tenergy tension
Spin amount
Dignics 05 ≧ Q5 ≧ DNA Platinum XH ≧ Rasanter R53 ＞ Rasanter R48 ≧ Evolution MX-D

Speed
Dignics 05 ≧ Evolution MX-D ＞ Rasanter R53 ≧ Q5 ≧ Rasanter R48 ＞ DNA Platinum XH