Astrox 88 D Tour (3rd Gen)
Model AX-88DTOUR
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Astrox 88 D Tour (3rd Gen): the side-weighted back-court 88 with a stiff Namd shaft
Side weight and a Namd shaft
Yonex puts extra weight into the sides of the Astrox 88 D’s frame, a design the front-court 88 S does not get, and for the 2024 generation it lists that weighting for every D tier. The D Tour pairs it with a stiff shaft of 2G-Namd Flex Force, a graphite that no other D tier below the Pro receives. Around that shaft sits a Taiwan-made frame of high-modulus carbon, CSR and tungsten, the same recipe as the D Game. The Tour is 10 mm longer than standard, 5 mm more than its front-court twin, and comes in 3U as well as 4U.
Dominate, with a Tour added
Yonex Japan announced the third-generation Astrox 88 on February 22, 2024, and every tier reached shops worldwide on March 22. The release introduced the Tour, sharing the Pro’s concept design, as an addition to the Pro and Game the 88 had already carried in Japan. D stands for Dominate. Yonex built it for the back court, with a concentrated sweet spot for shot power and a Stability Weight Distribution in the frame sides that it says steadies the face at impact, cuts power loss and raises smash power. The Pro, Tour and Game share the enhanced Rotational Generator System and a new Power-Assist Bumper at the frame top. Where the Tour differs from the Pro is in detail: its shaft has 2G-Namd Flex Force but not Ultra PE Fiber, its frame has CSR instead of CFR, and its joint is the standard built-in T-joint rather than the Pro’s new one.
No player on the Tour
Yonex has named no player on the 88 D Tour. Its 2024 All England equipment list put the D Pro in Rian Ardianto’s hands, and the release’s planned users, Fajar Alfian and Ardianto, Baek Ha-na and Kim So-yeong, were named for the 88 line as a whole. Yonex Japan’s 2026 catalog describes the D Tour as a high-performance model for advanced players with the Pro’s concept design, one that breaks down and overwhelms defenses with back-court attacks. Yonex USA’s copy pitches it to a doubles specialist dominating from the back of the court.
Black/Silver across the D line
Yonex makes the 2024 D Tour in a single finish, Black/Silver (color 076), which it also uses for the D Pro and D Game. The 88 S Tour reverses the scheme to Silver/Black and is 5 mm shorter. The beginner 88 Play, one model for both letters and sold outside Japan, is Black/Silver and 10 mm longer too, but it is all graphite, medium flex and 4U only; it has its own page. The 2021 generation’s D Tour, item AX88D-T, was Camel Gold like that year’s D Pro and has its own page. Japan also has a shop-association edition of the D Tour, item 3AX8DTBP, entered under the 88 D Tour name in the Japan Badminton Association’s certified-equipment list for the October 2025 session.
Current in Japan and abroad
The D Tour remains in production. Yonex’s global site lists it among its current Astrox racquets, Yonex Japan’s catalogs have carried it every year from 2024 to 2026, and Yonex USA stocks 3U and 4U frames. Yonex Japan set its launch list price at ¥28,600 including tax; the D Pro was ¥33,000, and the D Game has no Japanese list price. New stock in the standard colorway is the normal supply, and nothing about the model is limited apart from the association version, which Yonex does not show on its own product pages. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Same paint, three shafts
No fake 88 D Tour has been documented. Mistaken identity is the realistic risk: the Pro, Tour and Game share the Black/Silver paint and the 10 mm length, and the Play shares both as well. Yonex USA’s product copy says Namd graphite for the D Game as well as the D Tour, and its product page for the D Game prints the Tour’s CSR and 2G-Namd material row, so text copied from it can make a Game read like a Tour. From 2025 Yonex’s results lists often print a plain “88 D”, which never shows the tier. The item code, origin marking and size class decide it.
The stiff D below the Pro
Before 2024 the Tour was an export tier of the 2021 generation; the third generation sold it worldwide, Japan included, and gave it the Pro’s new shaft graphite. For a back-court player it is the stiff option under the Pro, with the medium-flex D Game below it. Yonex keeps the D’s length, side weighting and series technology the same for all three tiers, so what separates the Tour from the Pro is the shaft fiber, frame rubber, joint and factory, and what separates it from the Game is flex, shaft material and the 3U size.
Start with the code: 3AX88D-T on the 2024 D Tour, AX88D-T (no leading 3) on the Camel Gold 2021 model. The current frame is Black/Silver, 10 mm longer than standard, has a Power-Assist Bumper along its top and is marked as made in Taiwan. Yonex’s specification reads: stiff; frame of high-modulus graphite with CSR and tungsten; shaft of high-modulus graphite and 2G-Namd Flex Force; built-in T-joint. There are two weight classes, 4U at about 83 g with grip 5 or 6 (Yonex recommends 20–28 lb) and 3U at about 88 g with grip 4, 5 or 6 (21–29 lb). A Japan marking points to the D Pro, a medium-flex frame sold only in 4U to the D Game, and an all-graphite frame coded 3AX88-PL to the Play.
Because the D Tour is still made, a buyer’s questions are generation and tier. The 3 at the start of the item code separates it from the Camel Gold 2021 frames, and the origin marking and size class separate it from the Japan-made Pro and the 4U-only Game. A champagne frame is likely the Japanese association version, 3AX8DTBP. The weight label matters more than usual here, since only the Pro and Tour among the 2024 D tiers are offered in 3U.