Armortec 900 Power Lee Chong Wei
Model AT-900PLC · Lee Chong Wei
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Lee Chong Wei’s yellow Armortec: the 2010 player model of his Commonwealth gold
A tiger in yellow
On July 30, 2010, Yonex Japan put three player models on limited sale. Each was a racquet one of its stars was already using, redesigned under that player’s supervision, and Lee Chong Wei’s was the Armortec 900 Power. Yonex explained every choice in the paint. Yellow, which it called noble, was his image color. Black along both sides of the frame was meant to make the racquet itself suggest a tiger stalking its prey, and pinpoint blue on the sides stood for the tiger’s eyes in the dark. The top of the frame was white at Lee’s own strong request, so the head would look light and swing easily. Yonex named it ARMORTEC 900 POWER (LEE CHONG WEI MODEL), and its match reports use the code AT900PLC.
The standard Power underneath
The yellow model is the Armortec 900 Power in a player’s design, and the standard model’s page tells the frame’s story. Yonex Japan sold it at the same ¥24,000 before tax as the red Power, but only in 3U with grip 5, where the standard frame also came in 4U. Yonex’s spec sheets for the 900 Power list ultra-high-modulus graphite with Micro Ti and Elastic Titanium in the frame and rate it stiff, and Yonex called Armortec its most head-heavy series. The edition never joined the regular range: Yonex Japan’s racquet list of late 2010 and Yonex’s global Armortec page of early 2011 carry only the standard models. Yonex announced it in a news release, together with an ArcSaber 10 for Peter Gade and an ArcSaber Z-Slash for Taufik Hidayat.
Two finals against the other player models
Yonex Japan’s report of the June 2010 Indonesia Open, which Lee won against Taufik, still lists him on the standard AT900-P, and its report of his Yonex Open Japan win that September names no racquet. The first Yonex record of the yellow model in his hands is the Commonwealth Games in Delhi that October, where he beat England’s Rajiv Ouseph 21–10, 21–8 for the singles gold. In December he beat Taufik, playing his own red Z-Slash player model, 21–19, 21–9 in the Hong Kong Open final, his sixth Super Series title of the season. In January 2011 he won the Super Series Finals in Taipei 21–9, 21–14 in 40 minutes against Peter Gade and his ArcSaber 10 player model. Both finals put two of that summer’s three player models across the net.
A short spell, a lasting color
Lee’s documented time with the yellow frame was brief. At the All England in March 2011, Yonex Japan says, he took up the Voltric 80 in search of more attacking power and won the title. Yonex’s English player page, slower to change, listed “Armortec 900PLC” as his racquet in February and March 2011 and the Voltric 80 from late April, so the model’s match record in Yonex’s reports runs from October 2010 to January 2011. The color lasted longer. Yonex’s player-model wear for the 2010 Yonex Open Japan, which Lee won, put him in corn yellow, and Yonex named corn yellow as his color again for its 2011 World Championships goods.
How it was sold
The model went on sale in Japan on July 30, 2010, and export dealers had it within weeks: a US dealer listed it by early September 2010, and a Malaysian dealer was still advertising it in April 2011. Yonex published no production figure for it or for either sister model. New, unstrung examples were still being offered on a players’ forum in 2023. Its interest to collectors is specific and checkable. It is a Yonex-named player edition from a season Lee spent at world No. 1, Yonex’s reports tie it to three of his titles, and its design separates it from the red standard frame at a glance. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Replicas and misdescriptions
The yellow model has attracted copies: it has been offered online as a “Class A” racquet, a label commonly used for replicas. Misdescription is the more common problem. A red 900 Power sold as a “Lee Chong Wei racquet” is the standard frame, which carries no player marking. A yellow frame described as the racquet of his 2007–08 titles is wrong too, because those came on the red Power before this model existed. Yonex’s own 2011 counterfeit warning, published while the 900s were still in production, described many copies sold on internet auction sites as crude and easy to break.
The last Armortec of his career
The yellow model came as the Armortec line was giving way. Later in 2010 Yonex began moving its head-heavy range to the new Voltric series, Lee switched to the Voltric 80 the following March, and Yonex Japan ended production of the standard 900 Power in 2012. His later player editions are a Voltric, a Duora and an Astrox: the Voltric Z-Force II LCW, the Duora 10 LCW and the Astrox 99 LCW. In 2012 Yonex also put him on the white-and-gold Voltric Z-Force LTD, a limited edition of the standard frame rather than one made for him.
Start with the design. Yonex describes the model as yellow with black along both sides of the frame, a white frame top and pinpoint blue on the sides. The standard 900 Power is Fire Red (Yonex Japan color 569) and the 900 Technique Cool White. Yonex Japan sold the yellow model only in 3U with grip 5, so a 4U frame is the standard Power; export listings also show grip 4. Yonex’s reports code it AT900PLC, against AT900-P for the red frame. Export retail copy says Lee’s signature is engraved on it and that it was made in Japan; Yonex’s release states neither. Yonex’s 2011 counterfeit guidance gives four checks: a hologram sticker that is hard to peel, a crisp YONEX logo without a wide, round O, a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle, and a butt cap in Yonex’s green.
For a Lee Chong Wei collection, this is the player model from the middle of his long run at world No. 1, tied by Yonex’s reports to three titles between October 2010 and January 2011. Confirm the yellow, black and white design and the 3U marking from clear photos, ask for the cone and the engraved codes, and check the head and T-joint for cracks. A claim that a frame was used by Lee himself needs documentation of its own.