Astrox 100 Tour
Model AX-100TOUR
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Astrox 100 Tour: the Taiwan-made Kurenai Astrox 100 that Yonex Japan added only in 2024
Sold worldwide from 2021, in Japan from 2024
The Astrox 100 Tour (AX100T) is the middle of the three standard Astrox 100 racquets: below the Japan-made 100 ZZ, above the 100 Game, and made in Taiwan. Yonex sold it outside Japan for nearly three years before Yonex Japan took it on. Retailers dated its world launch to May 2021, a reviewer tested it that July, and on July 29, 2021 Yonex’s global store already showed a three-item Astrox 100 series, the ZZ, the Tour and the Game, all in stock. Yonex’s Far East site listed it by December 2021. Japan came last: Yonex Japan’s 2024 catalog, printed in December 2023, scheduled the Tour for mid-April 2024. Like the Game it comes in one finish, Kurenai, the deep crimson design the ZZ took on in 2021, and that shared color is why the three are so often confused in listings.
The ZZ’s concept on a different build
Yonex Japan’s 2026 catalog describes the Tour as sharing the 100 ZZ’s concept design for continuous power smashes and calls it a high-performance model for advanced players. Yonex rates it extra stiff, like the ZZ, but builds it differently. The frame is high-modulus graphite with Nanomesh Neo and tungsten, without the Namd, Black Micro Core and Nanometric of the ZZ’s frame, and the technology list gives an Extra Slim, Rexis shaft and the Energy Boost Cap Plus where the ZZ has the solid Hyper Slim Shaft. The frame is 10 mm longer than standard, with a built-in T-joint. Yonex’s sources differ on the shaft. Its global and Far East sites, Yonex USA’s 2024 catalog and Yonex Japan’s 2026 catalog give high-modulus graphite with Namd, while Yonex Japan’s online shop prints Nanomesh Neo, the same line as for the Game. Yonex gives no balance word for the Tour; the balance gauge in Yonex Japan’s catalogs places it on the head-heavy side, at the same point as the ZZ.
Advanced players, no named user
No professional is documented using the Tour. The Kurenai finish’s link to Viktor Axelsen, Shi Yuqi and Akane Yamaguchi belongs to the ZZ: Yonex Japan’s announcement of April 21, 2021, which put the ZZ’s Kurenai design on sale in Japan from early June, named them among the top players due to use it and did not mention the Tour or the Game. Axelsen’s Olympic golds in Tokyo and Paris were won with the ZZ, whose page tells that story. Yonex Japan’s online shop rates the Tour for advanced men and women only, and Yonex USA describes it as a racquet for intermediate to advanced players.
One color, three codes and a VA edition
Yonex lists one finish, Kurenai (color 821), in 4U (average 83 g, grips 5–6) and 3U (average 88 g, grips 4–6); Yonex USA’s store sells the 4U with a G5 grip. Yonex’s global site and Yonex Japan use the item code AX100T, while Yonex Taiwan lists the same racquet as AX100TEX. Yonex Japan’s shop marks it as certified by the Nippon Badminton Association. In September 2025 Yonex added the Astrox 100 Tour VA to Viktor Axelsen’s signature collection, in Dark Olive under its own codes (AX100VAT, and AX100TVA in Japan), with Volume Cut Resin listed in its frame on Yonex’s global site, which the standard Tour’s frame does not have. The VA Tour has its own page, and the standard Tour stayed on sale beside it. Yonex lists no other color, player version or limited run of the standard Tour.
In production, sold new at retail
The Tour is in current production. On October 4, 2026 Yonex’s global store listed it in stock, and it appears on Yonex Japan’s racquet list beside the ZZ and the three VA models and in Yonex Japan’s 2026 catalog. Yonex has published no production end. New examples therefore sell at retail, and resale is about pre-owned copies. It is a standard model made in volume, so its interest is practical rather than collectible. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Three Kurenai racquets and a Dark Navy lookalike
No counterfeit specific to the Tour is documented, and Yonex’s guidance is its general warning about counterfeits sold online. The practical risk is mistaken identity. The ZZ, the Tour and the Game all come in Kurenai, so a photo of the finish proves little; the model name on the frame, the country marking and the flex are what separate them. Spec text adds noise. A listing that gives the Tour a Nanomesh Neo shaft may have copied Yonex Japan’s shop page, and one that says Namd may have copied any other Yonex page, so neither settles anything. The 2020 Astrox 100 ZX, which has its own page, is the fourth lookalike: Taiwan-made, with the same published frame, shaft and flex as the Tour, but in Dark Navy. One reviewer found the Tour strongly reminiscent of the ZX; Yonex never said one replaced the other, and its July 2021 series page listed the Tour and the Game without the ZX.
A standard frame beside the flagship
The Tour has stayed in Yonex’s range since 2021, through the arrival of Axelsen’s collection in 2025, and Yonex has named no successor. Its place in the Astrox 100 story is as the extra-stiff, Taiwan-made alternative to the ZZ, and as the racquet whose published specification matches the ZX’s. What usually makes a standard racquet collectible is not in place: it has no documented player, a single production color and no limited run, and Yonex has not discontinued it.
Yonex’s item code is AX100T (AX100TEX on Yonex Taiwan’s pages). Check for the Kurenai finish, a Made in Taiwan marking, a frame 10 mm longer than standard and Yonex’s weights: 4U at an average of 83 g (grips 5–6) or 3U at 88 g (grips 4–6). Yonex lists extra stiff flex and a high-modulus graphite, Nanomesh Neo and tungsten frame. A Kurenai “100” marked Japan is the ZZ; a medium-flex Kurenai frame is the Game; Dark Olive is the VA Tour; a Taiwan-made Dark Navy frame is the 2020 ZX. Yonex Japan’s grommet set for the Tour is AC416AXB. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet and lifts easily with a fingernail on a fake.
A current racquet, so most players will buy it new. Yonex recommends 20–28 lb for the 4U and 21–29 lb for the 3U, with Aerobite Boost for control players and BG66 Force for hard hitters. For a used frame, confirm the AX100T code, the Taiwan marking and the model name, and ask for photos of the hologram and the weight label. Axelsen’s Olympic golds belong to the ZZ, and a Tour listing that leans on them is describing a different racquet.