Tibhar Hybrid K3 Pro

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

The rubber wears out for 2, 3 weeks of playing (1 hour/day). It is less spin and tacky after 3 weeks. It creates lots of spin (less than 09 °C), more speed and power, and is easier to play than 09 °C.

Buen control, buena velocidad, un poco tacky.

Very fast, great spin, and good control. One of the best rubbers on the market today.

The K3 Pro is an awesome rubber to use. I’ve used the D09c for quite some time on the forehand, but ever since I switched to the K3 Pro, my forehand has been more engaging. Plus, on the serve and serve receive part, it functions like 09c, but the catapult effect goes to the K3 Pro.

Ja nisam uspio dobiti onoliko koliko je guma skuplja. Nije loša, ali uzimajući u obzir cijenu, sljedeći put uzimam MX-P.

Loved it and planning to use it for a long time.

My preferred choice of the K3 rubbers. I tried the ordinary K3 but found it a bit too soft after switching from Hurricane 3 Neo. I found this rubber better for topspin and for blocking and found it continued to play well whereas the normal K3 did not seem to retain its grip for long.

Tibhar K3 is a wonderful rubber for advanced players looking to take their rubber 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.

I think it is not so good bounce. For me K1 better.

Harder version of standard K3. Packaging is the same except a stamp PRO, but on the rear package, the instructions are the same as standard K3. However, the PRO version is really harder, it is 55 rather than 53 (it is written 53 on the package, but the package is the one of hybrid K3). In other words, there is not a new package for this PRO version! I don’t understand why, but it is like that.

This rubber was tested on A. Lebrun Krypton (outer) and also on F. Lebrun Krypton (inner). Both blades are kind of Viscaria super ALC and Harimoto super ALC in Butterfly shelves. So, to me, this rubber pairs very well with the outer carbon blade, it is very responsive, very aggressive, with tons of spin, easy to counterattack. On the inner blade, I found it is more demanding in terms of physical power. As with any hard rubber, you can easily chop the ball, control receiving very well, push short, long, and flick. It is quite easy to use. Blocks are stable also. But once again, to get the full power of this rubber, you need to engage physical power. Like D09C. It is a bit expensive but less than the latest 55 hardness rubber from Xiom.

Perfect rubber