Carbonex 9 Tour
Model CAB-9T
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Carbonex 9 Tour: the graphite-framed 9, with the Carbonex 10’s printed specs
Two Carbonex 9s, two builds
Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog lists two Carbonex 9s side by side, and they are different racquets. The plain Carbonex 9 is an intermediate model with an aluminum frame, a graphite shaft and a conventional T-joint. The Carbonex 9 Tour beside it has a graphite frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft and Yonex’s Built-In T-Joint at the Advanced level, and its printed specification block matches the Carbonex 10’s line for line. A Yonex spec chart dated 1999 still lists the Tour, but not the plain 9.
Graphite frame, built-in joint
The catalog’s second Carbonex High Performance spread runs Carbonex 15, 10, 9 Tour, 9, 8 Tour and 8, each beside a “Hard Hitter” label. The 9 Tour’s block reads Built-In T-Joint, Player: Advanced, Frame: Graphite, Shaft: High Modulus Graphite, and ratings of 3 for flex, 3 for power and 4 for control on the catalog’s own scale, exactly as printed for the Carbonex 10. The Carbonex 15 at the head of the spread has high-modulus graphite in frame and shaft. The 9 Tour carries no “New” or “Latest” flag, so 1996 is its first documented year, not a launch date; no year is printed on the catalog’s pages, and the 1996 date comes from the collector who scanned it. The spread gives no weight, balance, flex word, item code or country of manufacture.
No player on record
No player is documented using the Carbonex 9 Tour, and the spread carries no player photograph. In a profile on Yonex’s international website, Taufik Hidayat recalled that his first Yonex, a present from his father in 1993, was “the Carbonex 9 racquet, which was really popular at the time.” He did not say which Carbonex 9, and the Tour is not documented before 1996.
The 9, the 10 and the 8 Tour
Yonex documents no editions or named colorways of the 9 Tour. The catalog photograph shows a dark frame and shaft, a black grip and a black full-length cover with a gold Yonex logo. Its neighbors are separate models under their own names: the Carbonex 10 shares its printed block but is shown with a copper-toned head and a cover lettered with its own name; the plain Carbonex 9 is a red aluminum frame with a gold T-joint piece at the throat (both have their own pages); the Carbonex 8 Tour is the intermediate graphite model, rated 3, 2 and 4. Resale listings also use the name “Carbonex 9 Tour SP”; no Yonex catalog or list documents an SP version, and its relation to the 1996 racquet is undocumented.
From the 1996 catalog to the 1999 chart
Yonex’s 1996 spreads print no prices, so no Yonex list price for the 9 Tour is known. It reappears on a Yonex spec chart that the collector who scanned it dates to 1999: its dots sit in the middle of the chart’s flex and power scales and one step below the top for control, and the chart’s Carbonex columns include no Carbonex 10 and no plain Carbonex 9. The Carbonex pages of Yonex’s 2000 Asian catalog no longer show it. No Yonex Japan listing of the 9 Tour is documented, and 1999 is its last documented year. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Two 9s and a 10
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 9 Tour is documented. The identity risk lies in the catalog itself: two racquets carry the Carbonex 9 name, and a third, the Carbonex 10, has the same printed specification. The plain 9’s conventional T-joint shows as a separate gold piece at the throat in the catalog photograph, while the 9 Tour has the built-in joint; between the Tour and the 10, only the printed name and the finish are documented differences.
A middle tier of the 1990s line
The 9 Tour belongs to the Advanced tier that Yonex’s mid-1990s catalog placed between its intermediate racquets, two of them aluminum-framed, and its Professional hard hitters in high-modulus graphite. The 2000 catalog’s new Carbonex 10 Tour, with the Muscle Power Frame, has the same graphite frame and high-modulus graphite shaft composition, but no Yonex source links the two; it has its own page. The 9 Tour’s launch, price, weights and country of manufacture are undocumented.
Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog is the only Yonex specification for the Carbonex 9 Tour: a graphite frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft and the built-in T-joint, shown with a dark frame and shaft and a black cover with a gold Yonex logo. It gives no weight, balance, flex word, item code or country of manufacture, so a seller’s “made in Japan” or flex claim is not Yonex’s. Read the model name printed on the racquet: an aluminum frame with a separate gold T-piece at the throat is the plain Carbonex 9, and the Carbonex 10 shares the Tour’s catalog specification. An “SP” suffix is not explained by any Yonex source. On a frame about 30 years old, check the throat, the grommets and the hoop for cracks.
The 9 Tour is a piece for collectors tracing Yonex’s mid-1990s Carbonex tiers rather than a racquet with a documented player story. Resale titles mix the names “Carbonex 9,” “9 Tour” and “9 Tour SP,” so the printed name and the throat construction decide which racquet is on offer. Claims about its year, weight or country of manufacture need evidence beyond the listing.