Duora 10
Model DUO-10 · Lee Chong Wei
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The two-sided Duora 10 carried Lee Chong Wei from the 2015 Worlds to his last title
From Jakarta to his last title
Yonex announced the Duora 10 on August 11, 2015 as the racquet Lee Chong Wei would use at the World Championships starting that week in Jakarta. He had been back from his doping suspension only since May. He reached the final unseeded and lost to Chen Long 21–14, 21–17, his third official Worlds silver after 2011 and 2013; a fourth, from 2014, had been stripped. Nearly three years later, on July 1, 2018, he beat Kento Momota 21–17, 23–21 for his 12th Malaysia Open title, and Yonex’s report again listed the Duora 10. It was the last title of his career. That September the Badminton Association of Malaysia announced that he had early-stage nose cancer. He was treated in Taiwan and trained again once cleared, but retired on June 13, 2019 without competing again. Every documented Yonex report between those two finals lists the Duora 10, or the LCW edition built on it, as his racquet.
A box face and an aero face
The Duora 10 opened Yonex’s Duora series and went on sale worldwide in late September 2015. Yonex’s Japanese release gave the reasoning: top players were winning points with a wider range of shots instead of relying on the smash, so it wanted attacking power on both wings. Its Dual Optimum System gives the head two cross-sections. The forehand face, used for big swings, has a box profile that Yonex credited with 3% more shuttle hold; the backhand face, used for compact swings such as drives, has an aero profile it credited with 9% more repulsion. Fluorescent orange and green on the frame edges mark the faces, so a right-hander holding it correctly sees orange and a left-hander green. The frame adds Nanometric DR, built on a Toray aerospace material Yonex said had never been used in a racquet, and nickel-titanium fiber. Yonex rated it stiff and sold it in 3U and 2U, made in Japan, at ¥26,000 before tax in Japan. It printed no balance class on its Duora 10 pages, but Yonex Japan’s product-page balance gauge puts it at even, and the shaft of the LCW edition, built on the same frame, is printed “EVEN BALANCE.”
Lee Chong Wei’s racquet, 2015–2018
Lee’s first autumn with the racquet brought three straight titles: the French Open, the China Open, where he beat Chen Long 21–15, 21–11 in the final, and the Hong Kong Open. In Hong Kong, Hawk-Eye clocked one of his smashes at 408 km/h, which Yonex later reported as the fastest men’s singles smash in Superseries events from September 2015 to spring 2016. That figure undercuts the idea that the Duora 10 suited an aging player who no longer needed power; Yonex itself sold it to hard hitters. He won the Malaysia Masters with it in January 2016. From that March’s All England, Yonex’s reports switch to the Duora 10 LCW, his own edition of the racquet, for four 2016 titles, and Japan’s Badminton Spirit listed the same edition for him at Rio, where he won his third Olympic silver. The reports return to plain Duora 10 for his fourth All England title in March 2017, 21–12, 21–10 over Shi Yuqi, and for his last title in 2018. They never name a colorway.
Colorways, player editions and the LT
The launch colors were green and orange, chosen to mark the two faces rather than any team or flag. By August 2017 Yonex USA listed the standard racquet in blue and orange with no change to its published construction, while Yonex Japan kept green and orange. Two Lee Chong Wei editions share the frame and have their own pages: the Frosty Blue LCW, announced on February 25, 2016 as part of his Lee Chong Wei Exclusive line, and the Legend Vision edition, which keeps the launch colors and adds his signature. The Duora 10 LT of June 2018 is a separate model. It kept the dual-shaped head, added Vibslayer carbon for a softer feel and weighed about 83 g in 4U against about 88 g for a 3U Duora 10, and Yonex Japan pitched it at women, juniors and seniors. Yonex never listed the Duora 10 itself in 4U.
A long run on sale
The verified sales shown above are pre-owned standard Duora 10s from the Asian resale market; each listing states the colorway, and none is a new, unused racquet. It stayed on sale long after Lee stopped playing. Yonex’s US site listed it from launch and still showed it in stock, in blue and orange, in February 2023; by late March it had gone from Yonex’s Duora range. In early 2022 Yonex had told UK coach Paul Stewart that the whole Duora range was being withdrawn. A run of more than seven years makes the standard frame the most plentiful member of the family, and most examples were bought to play with. The LCW and Legend Vision editions are valued on their own pages. A green-and-orange frame offered as an LCW edition is the standard racquet or the Legend Vision.
Counterfeits and code checks
A flagship frame linked to a famous player draws counterfeiters, and fake Duora 10s were in circulation within two years of launch. In June 2017 members of BadmintonCentral examined photographs of a low-priced example from a private seller and judged it fake: its cone and shaft codes did not match, the cone code pointed to a production date years before the Duora 10 existed, and the font of the printed specifications looked wrong. A green-and-orange frame checked the same way that February was judged genuine. The design itself gives buyers a structural test, because a genuine Duora 10 has different profiles on its two faces. The callout lists the checks.
The last racquet of his career
The Duora 10 was the last racquet Lee Chong Wei played in competition. His next signature model, the Astrox 99 LCW, went on sale in August 2019, after his retirement. Other Yonex players won with the Duora 10 too. Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen had it by the 2015 Denmark Open, Kamilla Rytter Juhl won the 2016 Hong Kong Open women’s doubles with it, and Ng Ka Long Angus took the men’s singles there, which Yonex called Hong Kong’s first men’s singles title at that event. Yonex added the Duora Z-Strike by March 2017 and the lighter LT in 2018. Reviewing the Duora 10 in 2015, Paul Stewart found a real but modest difference between the faces and expected the Duora range to outlast the ArcSaber line. It went the other way: in 2022 Yonex told him the Duora range was being withdrawn and a new ArcSaber was on the way.
Yonex’s item code is DUO10, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan. Yonex listed 3U (average 88 g) and 2U (average 93 g) with G4 or G5 grips; it never listed a 4U Duora 10, and an 83 g 4U frame is the separate Duora 10 LT or the Magenta Duora 9, which shares the 10’s material list and has its own page. Run a finger around the head: one face should have a squared box profile and the other a slimmer aero profile, with different colors on the edges of each face. Green and orange or blue and orange is the standard racquet; blue with red accents and an LCW logo is the Frosty Blue edition. Cone and shaft codes should agree with each other and with production from 2015 on, the two tests the documented 2017 fake failed. Yonex’s own guidance: cone codes are laser-engraved, not printed, a genuine hologram sticker resists lifting, and a counterfeit butt cap is often the wrong shade of green.
This is the playing version of Lee Chong Wei’s last competition racquet, sold for years in two standard colorways, so buy on condition. It is a stiff frame and most examples have been played hard, so ask for daylight photographs of both head profiles, the T-joint and the cone code, and look for cracks and repainting. Match the colorway to the edition before paying for a name. Treat any match-used claim as unproven unless the seller can document it.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.