Tibhar Hybrid K3 Pro

Tibhar K3 is a wonderful rubber for advanced players looking to take their game to the next level. I personally use it on my forehand with the Pro (harder) sponge. The rubber excels at brushing serves, spinny openings, and counterlooping. In general, the short game control is quite good as well, since it’s less bouncy than the normal ESN rubbers with the more easily activated catapult effect. You should be swinging pretty fast with good technique to get the most out of this rubber, so it’s not well-suited for beginner to intermediate players. Smashing is not ideal with it either, so I tend to twiddle to deal with lobs but it’s not absolutely necessary to deliver a powerful flat hit. Durability is the only thing this rubber isn’t optimized for, meaning if you play 4+ times a week you’d probably want to replace this once every few months to keep its original properties.

Perfect rubber.

Rubber is very good, but when it comes to durability, that’s where its weak point lies: approximately 3 months.