Astrox 99 Game (3rd Gen)
Model AX-99GAME
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Astrox 99 Game (3rd Gen): the Taiwan-made Black/Green beside Lanier’s 99 Pro
The intermediate tier of the 2025 Astrox 99
Yonex Japan announced the third-generation Astrox 99 on August 25, 2025, for sale in early September: a Pro and a Tour for advanced players, and this Game for intermediate players. Yonex’s global launch followed on September 5 and also named a Play, sold outside Japan, and all four share the black-and-green design. Yonex calls the Game an intermediate model with the same concept design as the Pro, built for powerful smashes, but it is a different racquet underneath. It is made in Taiwan where the Pro is made in Japan, rated medium flex where the Pro is stiff, sold only in 4U, and built without the 2G-Namd Flex Force that Yonex reserves for the Pro and Tour. Yonex Japan sells it at an open price, meaning it sets no list price, and Yonex USA launched it at $145, sold strung. The White Tiger Game of 2021 is a different racquet with its own page.
CSR and 2G-Nanomesh Neo instead of 2G-Namd
Yonex described the 2025 line as a redesign of its most smash-focused Astrox for today’s attacking game. Its Rotational Generator System places weight at the grip end, frame top and joint, and the Power-Assist Bumper, carried over from 2021, adds weight at the frame top while cutting air resistance. Yonex Japan’s launch table gives the Game a frame of high-modulus carbon, CSR, tungsten and 2G-Nanomesh Neo, a shaft of high-modulus carbon and 2G-Nanomesh Neo, and a standard built-in T-joint. The Tour also has CSR in the frame but uses 2G-Namd Flex Force in frame and shaft; the Pro has CFR in the frame, adds Ultra PE Fiber to the shaft and gets a new T-joint. Yonex’s 2026 Japanese catalog defines CFR and CSR together as carbon fiber rubber and core shell rubber, combining rubber’s flexibility with carbon fiber’s rebound for better shuttle hold and release. Yonex’s global release pairs 2G-Namd Flex Force with a hollowed, lighter end cap in the Pro and Tour to move weight toward the head.
No professional on the Game
No professional player is documented using the 2025 Astrox 99 Game. Yonex named P. V. Sindhu and Alex Lanier as the players who would use the new Pro, and Lanier won the 2026 World Championships with a racquet Yonex lists as the Astrox 99 Pro. Yonex Japan’s athlete pages list him on the Pro and no player on the Game. The Game is built for a different buyer. Yonex Japan’s online shop rates it best for intermediate men and women and suitable for beginners, leaving advanced blank, while it marks the Pro and Tour for advanced players only. Yonex USA lists the Game for intermediate to advanced players. Below it, the Play, a graphite model made in China that Yonex USA describes as designed for recreational players, is the 2025 line’s entry tier; it has its own page.
One color, one weight, and the 2021 Game
The 2025 Game comes only in Black/Green (color 530) and only in 4U, at an average of 83 g with grip 5 or 6. The Pro and Tour are also made in 3U. Yonex’s launch table, catalog and global specifications list no 3U Game, although Yonex Japan’s shop page prints a 3U tension line copied from the Pro. All four tiers are 10 mm longer than standard: the Japan-made Pro (3AX99-P), the Taiwan-made Tour (3AX99-T), this Game (3AX99-G) and, outside Japan, the China-made Play (3AX99-PL); the Pro, Tour and Play have their own pages. The 2021 Game (AX99-G) came in White Tiger, and in Cherry Sunburst outside Japan, in 3U and 4U, with Nanomesh Neo and Volume Cut Resin in the frame, so a “99 Game White Tiger” is the second generation. No limited color or edition of the 2025 Game appears in Yonex’s lists or in the Japan Badminton Association’s 2025 equipment list.
Current and widely sold
The third-generation Game has been in production since September 2025 and is on Yonex Japan’s current racquet list beside the Pro and Tour, with no successor announced. It is a standard model sold through Yonex’s regional companies and their dealers, so new stock is the main supply and nothing about it is scarce. Its interest is as the intermediate tier of the line Lanier won a world title with. Because two Astrox 99 Games exist, a used listing needs its generation confirmed before anything else. Verified sales so far are new and pre-owned frames from Asia resale, and the price panel above lists them.
Borrowed descriptions
No counterfeit of the 2025 Game is documented, though Yonex says counterfeits are hard to tell from genuine racquets by sight, and the previous generation’s finish has been copied: a blogger’s 2026 comparison documented a fake White Tiger Astrox 99 Play. The commoner trap is description. Four 2025 tiers share the black-and-green finish, and Yonex USA’s own product text calls the 99 Game a front-court doubles racquet with Namd graphite, wording it reuses on its 99 Tour and 88 S Game pages; Yonex’s spec tables give the Game 2G-Nanomesh Neo and no Namd. Listings that repeat that text, quote the Pro’s CFR frame or offer a 3U Game have borrowed another model’s description. The callout lists the checks.
Next to the Astrox 100 Game
The nearest alternative in Yonex’s range is the Astrox 100 Game (AX100G), the Taiwan-made intermediate model under the 100 ZZ, sold in Kurenai. Yonex Japan’s 2026 catalog describes the 99 Game as the 99 Pro’s concept, built for powerful smashes, and the 100 Game as the 100 ZZ’s concept, built for continuous power smashes with a soft hitting feel. On Yonex’s spec sheets both are medium flex, 10 mm longer than standard and sold at an open price in Japan. The 100 Game uses Nanomesh Neo, without the 2G prefix, in frame and shaft and comes in 3U as well as 4U. The 99 Game adds CSR to the frame, uses 2G-Nanomesh Neo and is 4U only.
Yonex’s item code is 3AX99-G; the 2021 Game is AX99-G, without the 3. Look for Black/Green with orange accents, a frame 10 mm longer than standard and a 4U label (average 83 g, grip 5 or 6). Check the country marking: Yonex lists the Game as made in Taiwan, while the Pro in the same colors is made in Japan and the Play in China. Yonex lists medium flex, high-modulus carbon, CSR, tungsten and 2G-Nanomesh Neo in the frame, and high-modulus carbon with 2G-Nanomesh Neo in the shaft. A Black/Green 99 described with 2G-Namd Flex Force, CFR, Ultra PE Fiber or a 3U weight is a Pro or Tour, or a mislabeled Game. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet and lifts easily with a fingernail on a fake.
This is a current racquet, so most players will buy it new and choose the grip size. Yonex recommends 20–28 lb and suggests Aerobite for control players or Exbolt 68 for hard hitters. For a used frame, confirm the 3AX99-G code, the Taiwan marking and the 4U label, and ask for daylight photographs of the shaft and T-joint. Lanier’s world title belongs to the Pro, and a 99 Game listing that leans on it is describing a different racquet.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.