Duora 10 LCW Frosty Blue
Model DUO-10LCW · Lee Chong Wei
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Duora 10 LCW Frosty Blue: the limited Lee Chong Wei Exclusive of his 2016 season
The racquet at the center of the LCW Exclusive
Yonex announced the Lee Chong Wei Exclusive on February 25, 2016, a limited line made to commemorate his achievements. The announcement described a vivid blue-and-red motif with his logo, and at its center a custom Duora 10. Yonex Japan put that racquet on sale in mid-March in limited quantity, made in Japan, supplied with its own case and sold at an open price, with no manufacturer list price. The color was Frosty Blue, and the only Japanese size was 3U with a G5 grip. Yonex said Lee would appear in the new gear from that year’s All England. Its first-round report there lists him on the Duora 10 LCW, beaten as the second seed by the unseeded B. Sai Praneeth, 24–22, 22–20. By September Yonex had named the same model in four of his title runs and was calling him world No. 1.
A standard Duora 10 underneath
Under the livery the LCW is the Duora 10 that Yonex had released worldwide in late September 2015. Its Dual Optimum System gives one head two cross-sections: a box profile on the forehand face for hold and power, and an aero profile on the backhand face for speed. The two profiles are in the head, not the shaft. Yonex USA’s page for the LCW lists the standard construction, with a stiff flex, high-modulus graphite, Nanometric DR and Ni-Ti Fiber in the frame, and graphite with Nanometric in the shaft. It offered 3U and 2U, averaging 88 g and 93 g, made in Japan. The published construction matches the base model, whose own page covers the technology.
What Yonex’s reports show
Lee was already playing the Duora 10 before this edition existed. Yonex lists the standard model for his 2015 World Championship final, lost to Chen Long 21–14, 21–17, for his 2015 China Open title and for his Malaysia Masters win in January 2016. From the 2016 All England its reports name the Duora 10 LCW. He won an 11th Malaysia Open in April, beating Chen Long 21–13, 21–8, and the Asia Championships in May, 21–17, 15–21, 21–13 over Chen again. In June he took the Indonesia Open, 17–21, 21–19, 21–17 over Jan Ø. Jørgensen, and in September a sixth Japan Open against the same opponent. At Rio he beat Lin Dan in the semifinal and lost the final to Chen Long, his third Olympic silver. No Yonex report names his racquet there, but Japan’s Badminton Spirit, in a racquet feature made with Yonex’s cooperation, listed him on the Duora 10 LCW. Later reports switch labels: plain Duora 10 for his 2017 All England title and his last title in July 2018, Duora 10 LCW for two 2017 finals he lost. None names a colorway.
One code, several colorways
Frosty Blue is a blue frame with red accents. Yonex Japan and Yonex USA name the color Frosty Blue, Yonex’s announcement calls the line blue and red, and retailers often list the racquet as Blue/Red. They are one edition, not two. Yonex USA showed Frosty Blue as the only color through December 2016, and its LCW Exclusive range had included a Duora 77 LCW since that February, a separate medium-flex, Taiwan-made racquet with its own page. Retailers also sold frames under the same DUO10LCW code in other colorways, including Jewel Blue and Silver Blue, which Yonex never dated. The green-and-orange Duora 10 is sometimes described as an earlier LCW edition in Malaysian colors. It is the standard model, and its two colors mark the two faces. The Legend Vision Duora 10 keeps those colors and has its own page.
Reading the sales record
The verified sales shown above are pre-owned examples from the Asian resale market; no new example is recorded. Resale listings seldom name the colorway, so the record can include other Duora 10 LCW colorways alongside the Frosty Blue. Yonex gave no production figure, and its Japanese page says only “limited quantity.” Some retail copy sells the racquet as a “Rio Limited Edition” of 3,000 pieces. Neither the name nor the number comes from Yonex, which announced the edition under the Lee Chong Wei Exclusive name months before the Games.
Substitution before counterfeits
No counterfeit of this edition is documented. The one documented BadmintonCentral identification thread, from April 2017, ended with members judging the racquet genuine. The owner had worried about the frame’s mismatched colors, and a reply explained that the Duora is meant to have asymmetric color schemes. One member read its cone code as June 2016 production for the Hong Kong market. The practical risk is substitution: another DUO10LCW colorway sold as the Frosty Blue, or marketing names such as “Rio edition” attached to any of them. A famous name on a flagship frame is the usual counterfeiters’ target, so the structural checks in the callout still apply.
Among his signature racquets
The Frosty Blue sits in the middle of Lee Chong Wei’s Yonex signature racquets. Before it came the dark pink Voltric Z-Force II LCW of 2014. After it came the Legend Vision Duora 10 and the Astrox 99 LCW, released in August 2019 after his retirement. The Frosty Blue and the pink Z-Force II were issued for him to play, while the Legend Vision and the Astrox 99 LCW were tributes. The Duora line also moved on without him. By March 2017 Yonex had introduced the Duora Z-Strike, with Viktor Axelsen on it, while Lee stayed on the Duora 10. The Frosty Blue belongs to the season when he won his 11th Malaysia Open and took his third Olympic silver.
Confirm the marking: Yonex lists the Duora 10 LCW as made in Japan. The Frosty Blue is a blue frame with red accents and the LCW logo; check the item code, DUO10LCW, since the Taiwan-made Duora 77 LCW (DUO77LCW) comes in the same colors. A green-and-orange frame is a standard or Legend Vision Duora 10, and Jewel Blue or Silver Blue is a different colorway sharing the code. Japanese-market frames were 3U G5 only; Yonex USA listed 3U (average 88 g) and 2U (average 93 g), and no 4U is documented. Run a finger around the head: a genuine Duora 10 has a squared box profile on one face and a slimmer aero profile on the other. Cone codes should be laser-engraved, and a market code such as SP marks distribution, not a fake. Yonex’s own test: a genuine hologram sticker resists lifting. Japanese sets came with a dedicated case.
Buy on condition and identity. Listings often skip the colorway, so ask for daylight photographs of the whole frame, the LCW logo, both head profiles and the cone code. A Japanese-market example should be 3U G5; Yonex USA also listed 2U. Treat “Rio edition,” piece counts and match-used claims as unproven unless the seller documents them. Players who only want the frame get the same published specification in a standard Duora 10.
Verified prices last updated Jul 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.