Astrox 100 ZZ VA Viktor Axelsen
Model AX-100VAZZ · Viktor Axelsen
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Astrox 100 ZZ VA: Axelsen’s signature edition of the frame behind his two golds
A signature finish on a gold-medal frame
The Astrox 100 ZZ VA is the Japan-made flagship of the Viktor Axelsen Collection, the signature line Yonex announced in March 2025. Underneath is the Astrox 100 ZZ, the frame on which Axelsen won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021 and in Paris in 2024. Yonex describes the collection’s racquets as special-edition designs based on its existing high-performance models. The VA version is listed as Grayish Beige, in a design built on green tones, with Axelsen’s VA logo and his signature. Yonex enclosed a personal letter from him in the first 10,000 ZZ racquets, and said the collection put him alongside Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. It reached shops in autumn 2025, about six months before he retired.
Designed with Axelsen, built on the standard ZZ
Yonex unveiled the collection at the 2025 All England in Birmingham, in a release dated March 18. It said the Astrox 100 VA Edition was designed with Axelsen’s insights, and Yonex Japan added that he had visited Blue Lab, Yonex’s performance research center, in August 2024 for motion tracking and weight-balance analysis. What reached shops is the standard frame in a new livery. Yonex’s global page gives the ZZ VA the same specification as the standard 100 ZZ: Extra Stiff flex, a frame of HM Graphite, Namd, Tungsten, Black Micro Core and Nanometric, an HM Graphite and Namd shaft, a built-in T-joint, a frame 10 mm longer than standard, and 3U (average 88 g) or 4U (average 83 g), made in Japan. Yonex USA adds the Hyper Slim Shaft and the Rotational Generator System and rates it head-heavy.
Axelsen’s record on the ZZ
Yonex’s records tie the VA to Axelsen’s years on the standard frame, not to matches of its own. Yonex Japan’s report on the 2020 All England names the Astrox 100 ZZ for his first title there, won five days before the racquet went on sale, and he won both Olympic golds on the same model, a story told on the Astrox 100 ZZ page. His last Yonex-listed title before the VA appeared, the January 2025 India Open, was also on the standard ZZ. In April 2025 he had surgery for a herniated disc. He returned at the Hong Kong Open that September, lost in the first round, played on through October and then withdrew from the rest of the season. On April 15, 2026, he retired, saying recurrent back problems meant he could no longer compete and train at the highest level. No documented Yonex equipment list shows him playing the VA in competition, and Yonex Japan’s player page still lists the standard Astrox 100 ZZ.
Three VA racquets and a staged launch
The collection has three racquets. The ZZ VA is Grayish Beige, item code AX100VAZ on Yonex’s global site and AX100ZVA in Japan, and is the Japan-made one. The VA Tour (Dark Olive, AX100VAT) and VA Game (Grayish Beige, AX100VAG) are made in Taiwan, with Nanomesh Neo and Volume Cut Resin in their frames on Yonex’s global site; it lists softer flexes for them, Stiff and Medium, though Yonex USA rates the VA Tour Extra Stiff. All three carry the VA logo and signature. The standard ZZ stayed on sale, and Yonex’s Astrox 100 page lists it beside the VA models. Yonex set September 26, 2025, as the collection’s global launch, and Yonex Japan said the pieces would go on sale in stages from late September; Yonex’s US store listed the ZZ VA in early October. A second VA collection, due in October 2026, adds apparel, shoes, bags and accessories but no new racquet.
A current racquet with its own resale record
The ZZ VA is in current production. Its verified sales so far come from Asia resale and include both unused and pre-owned examples; the price panel above lists them, with new and pre-owned valued separately. Yonex USA listed it at $325 at launch. The standard 100 ZZ, a different finish on a frame that is also still sold, is a separate model, valued on its own page. Yonex’s announcements do not call the ZZ VA limited or numbered; the only extra tied to a quantity is the letter in the first 10,000. For a collector, completeness is what separates one example from another: the box and, for early units, the letter.
Look-alikes and a stray spec sheet
No counterfeit specific to the ZZ VA has been documented, and Yonex publishes no VA-specific guidance beyond its general warning that counterfeits circulate especially on online shopping sites, auctions and flea markets. The practical risk is confusion within the collection. The VA Game shares the ZZ VA’s Grayish Beige, logo and signature, and all three VA racquets carry the Astrox 100 name. Yonex’s Far East site adds a second trap. Its ZZ VA page lists a Stiff flex, Volume Cut Resin in the frame, an Extra Slim Shaft, the Dual Optimum System and the Power-Assist Bumper, none of which appear on the same site’s standard ZZ page. Yonex’s global, US and Japanese listings all match the standard ZZ, so the Far East row reads like data borrowed from other models.
A tribute at the end of a career
Yonex presented the collection as Axelsen joining Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. Like Lee’s Duora 10 editions, the ZZ VA is a signature finish on an existing frame rather than a new racquet. Its timing is its own. Lee’s Astrox 99 LCW went on sale two months after he retired; the ZZ VA reached shops while Axelsen was still playing on the tour, and he retired about six months later. Its place in the Astrox 100 story is as the edition Yonex dressed for Axelsen at the close of his career, on the frame that won both of his Olympic golds.
Check the identity first. The ZZ VA is Grayish Beige with Axelsen’s VA logo and signature, item code AX100VAZ (AX100ZVA on Yonex Japan’s listing), and made in Japan; a VA racquet marked Taiwan is a VA Tour or VA Game. The VA Game is also Grayish Beige, so read the model name on the frame. Yonex’s global specification is Extra Stiff flex, a frame 10 mm longer than standard, and 4U (average 83 g, grips 5–6) or 3U (average 88 g, grips 4–6). A listing that gives a Stiff flex or Volume Cut Resin has copied the Far East page or describes the VA Tour. Yonex’s own authenticity test is the hologram sticker, which should resist lifting with a fingernail, and Yonex advises buying from a reliable retailer. For early units, ask whether Axelsen’s letter is included.
A current signature edition on the standard Astrox 100 ZZ frame. For a player, it is the same Yonex-specified racquet as the Kurenai ZZ in a different finish. For a collector, its interest is as the edition Yonex made for Axelsen at the end of his career, on the frame of his two Olympic golds. Keep the box and, for early units, the letter, since they make an example complete. Treat claims that it is a limited, numbered or re-engineered ZZ, or that he won a title with it, as unsupported.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.