Carbonex 20 Long
Model CAB-20L
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Carbonex 20 Long: the black high-modulus Carbonex 20 of 1996–2001
The other Carbonex 20
The Carbonex 20 Long was a separate Yonex model under the Carbonex 20 name, with its own item code, CAB20L, its own price and its own materials. In 2001 Yonex Japan sold it beside the plain Carbonex 20: the violet CAB20 was all-carbon at ¥16,000 before tax, the black 20 Long high-modulus carbon in frame and shaft at ¥17,000. Yonex Japan’s April 2001 racquet list said it delivered the “solid, responsive hitting feel” that advanced players prefer, and its product page added that its steep smashes “pierce the court.” Its trail runs from a Carbonex 20L in Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog to Yonex Japan’s old-model list, where it was filed with the models of 2001.
From the 1996 20L to “the new long racquet”
Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog shows a Carbonex 20L, tagged LATEST, among the hard hitters of its Carbonex High Performance spread, beside the 880, 25, 21, 20 Power and 20 Tour. The scan prints no specifications under it, but the label is the item code Yonex Japan later used for the 20 Long, and the 1996 and 2000 catalogs both picture a dark frame on a dark red shaft. Yonex USA’s Carbonex page, captured in October 1999, still introduced it as “the new long racquet, the Carbonex-20 Long,” with stiff high-modulus graphite in frame and shaft. A Yonex spec chart attributed to 1999 lists it first among the Carbonex models, and the 2000 Asian catalog gives it a built-in T-joint, a box-shaped frame and a “Long” tag. No Yonex source gives its extra length in millimeters.
No player on record
No Yonex source names a player with the Carbonex 20 Long. The 1996 catalog files it among its hard hitters, a style of play rather than a person. Yonex’s Legendary Players page quotes Taufik Hidayat on using “the Carbonex 20” as a national junior; the quote names no Long.
One black finish, and the namesakes
Yonex Japan listed one color, black (007), in 3U with grips 4 or 5 and 2U with grips 3, 4 or 5, sold with a full racquet case. It recommended BG80 for hard hitters and BG65 for control players; its pages of April and June 2001 give different tension advice for the 3U, 14–16 lb mains and 16–18 lb crosses, then 16–19 lb and 18–21 lb. The export lists of 1999–2000 offered 2U (90–94 g) only, in G4 on Yonex USA’s page and G2–G5 in the 2000 Asian catalog. Its namesakes are separate Yonex models: the 20 Power and 20 Tour of the 1996 catalog, the violet all-carbon CAB20 and the Carbonex 20 Muscle of 2002, each with its own page.
Off the list in early 2002
In Japan the 20 Long belonged to Yonex’s 2000 product range and stayed on the April 2001 racquet list, between the Carbonex 23 and the plain 20, with the 17 and 13 below; the Carbonex 17, 13 and 23 each have their own page. It was still listed in February 2002. By April the Carbonex 20 Muscle had taken its place, and Yonex Japan filed the 20 Long with the 2001 models on its old-model list, beside the Ti 8 and the Isometric 750 Muscle. Yonex Japan pitched the 20 Muscle in almost the same words: the hitting feel advanced players like, and steep-angled smashes. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Reading the frame
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 20 Long is documented. The practical risk is identity, since the bare name Carbonex 20 covers several Yonex models. Yonex’s 2000 Asian catalog pictures a black frame with “Carbonex 20 LONG” lettered down a dark red shaft, and Yonex Japan sold it only in black. A violet frame is the plain CAB20 of 2001–04, raised ridges between the grommets mean the 20 Muscle, and the 1996 20 Power and 20 Tour carry their own names. No Yonex source states where the 20 Long was made.
A long Carbonex of the late 1990s
The 20 Long belongs to a run of Long models in Yonex’s late-1990s range: the same 1999 spec chart lists a Carbonex 15 Long, a Carbonex 7 Long and an Isometric 250 Long; the 15 Long, the 7 Long and the 250 Long have their own pages. It sits between the Carbonex 20 namesakes of the mid-1990s and the Carbonex 20 Muscle that replaced it in Japan. The later Carbonex 30 Muscle of 2003 kept the idea as a tag rather than a name, “10 mm LONG” on Yonex Japan’s page.
Look for the model name Carbonex 20 LONG (Yonex item CAB20L). Yonex Japan sold it in black only (color 007), with a high-modulus carbon frame and shaft, in 3U (grips 4–5) or 2U (grips 3–5); the export lists of 1999–2000 gave 2U (90–94 g). Yonex’s 2000 Asian catalog pictures the name lettered down a dark red shaft and lists a built-in T-joint and a box-shaped frame. Yonex rated it Stiff (Yonex USA, 1999) and Extra Stiff (2000 Asian catalog), and documented no balance or factory. A violet frame is the plain Carbonex 20; raised grommet ridges mean the 20 Muscle. On a frame some 25 years old, check the joint, the hoop and the grommets for cracks.
The 20 Long is a thinly documented branch of the Carbonex 20 name, so identity comes first: look for the printed LONG and the black finish, and treat a frame without them as one of the other Carbonex 20 models. Be careful with listings that say only “Carbonex 20.” Its interest is as the long-frame Carbonex of the late 1990s, documented in Yonex’s Asian catalogs, on Yonex USA’s site and in Yonex Japan’s 2000–01 range.