Astrox 99 Tour (2nd Gen)
Model AX-99TOUR-2G
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Astrox 99 Tour (2nd Gen): the stiff, Namd-shafted 99 that Yonex never sold in Japan
The Pro’s shaft, outside Japan
The Astrox 99 Tour (item code AX99-T) was the second of four tiers in the Astrox 99 that Yonex redesigned with Kento Momota in 2021, and the one closest to his Pro. It kept the Pro’s stiff flex, its shaft of HM Graphite and Namd, the Volume Cut Resin in the frame and both weight classes, and used Nanomesh Neo in the frame where the Pro has Namd. Yonex Japan never sold it: its catalogs carried only the 2021 Pro and Game, and Japan’s first Astrox 99 Tour was the third-generation model of 2025. The 2021 Tour was sold through Yonex’s global site and listed in Yonex USA’s 2024 catalog.
What the Tour kept and dropped
Yonex announced the new Astrox 99 from Tokyo on August 23, 2021, for sale in late September. Like the Astrox 88 S and D, it came in Pro, Tour, Game and Play versions built on one concept for different levels of play, and Yonex noted that technologies vary between the Tour, Game and Play. Its spec block gives the Tour a frame of HM Graphite, Nanomesh Neo, Volume Cut Resin and tungsten, a shaft of HM Graphite and Namd, and a built-in T-joint; the Pro has Namd in the frame and what Yonex calls a new built-in T-joint. Yonex USA’s 2024 catalog lists the Power-Assist Bumper, an extra-slim shaft, a REXIS shaft and the Energy Boost Cap Plus among the Tour’s features, and the Solid Feel Core for the Pro alone. The Tour is rated stiff and is 10 mm longer than standard.
No named user
No player is documented using the Tour. Yonex’s 2021 releases name Momota as the collaborator on the redesign, not as a user of the lower tiers; his matches and Kodai Naraoka’s belong to the 99 Pro, which has its own page. Yonex gave the 2021 Tour no level wording of its own. Its successor is placed higher: Yonex Japan’s August 2025 release calls the third-generation Pro and Tour models for advanced players and the Game one for intermediate players.
Two finishes, four tiers
Yonex made the Tour in the two 2021 finishes, White Tiger and Cherry Sunburst, the same two as the Pro, the Game and the Play, so the paint tells the generation, not the tier. It came in 4U (average 83 g, grips 5–6) and 3U (average 88 g, grips 4–6), and Yonex recommends 20–28 lb for the 4U and 21–29 lb for the 3U. No limited edition or player version of the Tour is documented. Its tier siblings have their own pages: the Japan-made Pro, the medium-flex Game and the graphite, 4U-only Play. The third-generation Tour of 2025 (3AX99-T, Black/Green) is a different racquet, also with its own page.
Sold abroad, 2021–2025
The Tour was an export-market model. Yonex’s global site sold it from late 2021 and Yonex USA’s 2024 catalog listed it beside the Pro, Game and Play, while Yonex Japan’s 2024 and 2025 catalogs carry only the AX99-P and AX99-G. Yonex’s global store still showed the Tour in stock in May 2025. The third generation launched worldwide on September 5, 2025; by October the old Tour page read out of stock, and Yonex’s current Astrox list shows only the new Tour. Yonex published no separate production-end notice: the new line replaced it. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Shared paint, borrowed spec text
No counterfeit of the Tour is specifically documented, but its finish has been copied: in April 2026 a player’s blog compared a fake White Tiger Astrox 99 Play with a genuine Cherry Sunburst one and found it a few millimeters longer, heavy and lopsided, with smudged lettering. Mislabeling is the commoner risk. Four tiers share two finishes, so a Tour can be sold as a Pro and a Game as a Tour. Yonex’s global page for the 2025 Astrox 100 Tour VA prints the same frame and shaft materials as this Tour, so a materials list copied into a listing proves little.
Replaced by a Tour Japan did sell
The 2021 Tour sat between the Japan-made Pro and the Taiwan-made Game, kept the Pro’s flex and shaft, and was sold for four years outside Japan only. Its successor of September 2025, the 3AX99-T, kept the stiff flex, and Yonex Japan added it to its own range, so the Tour tier reached Yonex Japan’s catalog only with the 2025 line. The 2021 model’s interest is as the stiff, Namd-shafted version of the Momota redesign one step below the Pro.
Yonex’s item code is AX99-T; the 2021 Pro is AX99-P, the Game AX99-G, the Play AX99-PL, and the 2025 Tour 3AX99-T. All four 2021 tiers came in White Tiger and Cherry Sunburst, so read the model name on the frame, not the paint. Yonex’s spec is stiff flex, a frame 10 mm longer than standard, and 4U (average 83 g, grips 5–6) or 3U (88 g, grips 4–6): a 3U frame rules out the Play, and a medium-flex one is the Game. Yonex documents Japan manufacture for the Pro only and prints no country for the Tour (retail listings often give Taiwan). A Black/Green 99 Tour is the 2025 model. Yonex’s own check is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet and lifts easily with a fingernail on a fake.
The 2021 Tour is a player’s racquet with no documented professional user. Confirm the generation and tier from the code and the frame print before anything else, since the paint is shared with three siblings and the name with the 2025 Tour. Check the weight class and grip, as Yonex made it in 4U and 3U, and treat any link to Momota’s matches as belonging to the Pro. Spec text copied from Yonex’s current Tour page describes the 2025 model.