- PA G E 2 - THE TT REPORTER #LETSGAUZ! Adam Bobrow in an interview with Simon Gauzy after the World Championships match ! N U F Adams best trickshots on Youtube! Gauzy about his new spin performance Adam Bobrow had the opportunity to ask the French No. 1 some questions about his world-class performance. Adam: Simon, new technique, better details - and things steadily moved athletics? Or is there a new material up for me with the R50. behind your performance against Xu Then I tested a prototype with Xin? andro a few weeks before the World Simon: I‘ve trained a lot on tech- Championships, where for the time nique, but everyone who‘s in the being only the sponge was replaced last 32 here is on almost the same by a new development. I immediately level, technically and athleti- realized that I could get a few percent cally. Cleverness, experience more out of my spin with it. I made and mental strength make the the rubber decision for the World difference. I can only name my Championships very quickly. rubber. We have tested a new Adam: What is behind your new type of sponge under my R50 sponge? in the last few weeks. Simon: Hey Adam, I‘m not a techni- Adam: That seems to have cian. The best thing is to ask andro worked out very well. What directly. was different for you? Simon: I was a little skeptical. Normally I stick to my usual set-up even with the smallest A new rubber – Enquiry to andro Damien Eloi, andro product development, formerly world ranking no.11 TT-Reporter: Damien, what kind of Bionic has also been used, i.e. nat- hammer product do you have? ural structures have been examined D.E.: With Simon Gauzy we have and learned from. For example, we a player in our team who not only have developed a new species with ranks among the top ten in Europe, different cell walls that react much but he is also a guy who shows more flexibly than a sponge with a us with intelligent feedback how comparable pore size and sponge few months: hardness is not the this will be considered step by step to further optimize rubbers for top hardness. The first tests with the same as hardness when it comes over the next few months. players. It‘s like Formula 1. A driver new sponge were as follows very to the feeling of playing. With the who understands the car makes different. Only when we were able unique cell walls the playing feel- it easy for the team to improve to reproduce the optimal cell struc- ing is softer, more sensitive than the Racecar. Among other things, ture over and over again we had a with other sponges of this hardness. Simon has helped us to focus more stable series maturity with constant Simon once said, „This rubber talks on the sponge this year. And just performance that we have never to me (ce revêtement me parle)” - like in real life, it‘s coincidences that experienced before. It is this fan- and means the feedback that the lead to new solutions. tastic energy impulse that makes R53 provides at every contact. Parallel to our trials, our rubber pro- every topspin so dangerous. That‘s TT-Reporter: And yet, not too hard ducer tested a new sponge formu- why we quickly decided to name for a production rubber? Is there la. It has to be said that the start- the technology andro ENERGY anything else coming? ing material is a natural product. CELL. D.E.: We are only at the beginning of Certain additives and, depending TT-Reporter: You chose 53° hard- an exciting development. We know on the process, completely differ- ness. Is it still playable at all? what potential the new technology ent cell structures are produced. D.E.: I also had to learn in the last has. What else we will develop from