This blade was designed and is used by Ni Xia Lian, a famous table tennis player with Chinese origins who has been competing for Luxembourg since 1998.
Ni Xia Lian won two gold medals at the World Table Tennis Championship in 1983 in Tokyo as a member of Chinese national team.
38 years later she won a bronze medal at the World Championship in Houston, representing Luxembourg.
Ni Xia Lian has the unique penholder offensive style. Her game is a pace-changing, agressive game close to the table, using long pimples on one side of the blade and short on the other.
She continues performing on the top level internationally at the age of 60.
The blade has a 7-ply all-wood construction. It provides a wooden feeling and a lot of control, which allows offensive game at the table with any type of rubber, even long pimples!
Ni Xia Lian blade offers just enough speed and power, without unintentionally "throwing" the ball excessively.
It has a similar construction to the Jiang Jialiang blade (also from the Legend series), but Ni Xia Lian is significantly thinner and therefore it offers more controll.
