Duora 10 LT
Model DUO-10LT · Zheng Siwei, Dechapol Puavaranukroh, Takuro Hoki, Kong Hee-yong
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Duora 10 LT: the lighter Duora that two mixed doubles world champions played
Two world champions on a lighter Duora
Yonex built the Duora 10 LT for players who found the Duora 10 too heavy. Its launch copy spoke first to women, then to juniors and seniors. Yonex’s tournament reports went on to list it for two mixed doubles world champions. In December 2021 Yonex listed Thailand’s Dechapol Puavaranukroh on it when he and Sapsiree Taerattanachai won the World Tour Finals in Bali and then the World Championships in Huelva, beating Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino in both finals. In August 2022 it listed China’s Zheng Siwei on the same model when he and Huang Yaqiong won the world title in Tokyo, also over Watanabe and Higashino. In between, Zheng’s pair beat Dechapol’s in the Thailand Open and Malaysia Open finals of 2022, with Yonex listing both men on the 10 LT.
Built for players who found the 10 too heavy
Yonex Japan announced the 10 LT on May 10, 2018 for worldwide release in early June. It said the model answered players, mostly women, who wanted to try the Duora 10, its racquet for hard hitters, but worried about the weight and the hitting feel. The 10 LT keeps the Dual Optimum System, a box profile on the forehand face and an aero profile on the backhand, with Nanometric DR in the frame and nickel-titanium fiber built into the backhand side for rigidity. It adds Vibslayer Carbon, built with a Toray damping material, which Yonex says cuts shock to the elbow and wrist while keeping the frame’s repulsion. Yonex gave the weight as about 83 g in 4U against about 88 g for a 3U Duora 10, kept the stiff flex and made it in Japan at ¥26,000 before tax, the same as the Duora 10. Yonex USA’s 2019 catalog priced both at $270 and listed the 10 LT’s Solid Feel Core, Super Slim Shaft and Control Support Cap. Yonex recommends 19–26 lb, and rated it for advanced and intermediate players, men and women alike.
Kong, Hoki, Dechapol and Zheng
Yonex’s reports list Korea’s Kong Hee-yong on the 10 LT from the January 2019 Indonesia Masters. With Kim So-yeong, who played an Astrox 88 D, she won the 2019 Spain Masters, the Japan Open (21–12, 21–12 over world champions Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara) and the Korea Open, and was still listed on it when the pair won the 2021 World Tour Finals. By the 2022 World Championships Yonex had her on the Astrox 88 D Pro. Japan’s Takuro Hoki was on it at the 2019 Worlds in Basel, where he and Yugo Kobayashi, on a Duora Z-Strike, took silver; for their 2021 world title Hoki was listed on the Astrox 100 ZZ. Dechapol, on the Astrox 88 S in 2019, appears on the 10 LT from November 2021, when he and Sapsiree won the Indonesia Masters and Open in successive weeks; Yonex called their world title a month later a fifth straight win. Zheng is listed on it from the May 2022 Thailand Open to the August Worlds, and on the ArcSaber 11 Pro from the October 2022 Denmark Open.
One color, and a different Duora Light
Yonex listed one finish for the 10 LT in Japan, the US and on its global site: Pink/Yellow, a black frame with pink along one edge and yellow-green along the other in Yonex’s photograph, with the model name on the shaft. It had one item code, DUO10LT, and Yonex made no player or limited edition. Two siblings share its Vibslayer Carbon: the Hi-Flex Duora 6 of 2016, also a Japan-made 4U Duora, and the 3U Duora 8 XP of 2018. The 10 LT should not be confused with the Duora Light, item code DUOLT, which Yonex’s global site listed by 2021: a 5U (average 78 g), Hi-Flex racquet in Turquoise/Navy with a Nanometric β frame and a graphite shaft; it has its own page. The 10 LT belongs to the Duora 10 family, and the Duora 10 itself was never listed in 4U.
Nearly five years on sale
Yonex USA listed the 10 LT by mid-May 2018, ahead of its June release, and Yonex Japan sold it in a Duora lineup that also held the Z-Strike, 10, 8 XP, 7 and 6. Unlike the export-only Duora 77 and 88, it was a Japan-market model as well as an export one. Yonex Japan’s racquet list still carried it in January 2022 but not by late March, when only the Z-Strike and the 7 remained, though its reports kept listing Zheng and Dechapol on it through that summer. Yonex’s global Duora page still showed it in stock in January 2023, among seven Duoras; by late March only the Z-Strike was left, and the Duora 10 page tells how the range was wound down. Yonex published no production-end notice. The verified sales shown above are pre-owned frames from Asia resale. Its interest for collectors is a world-title record in a single standard finish.
Copies and look-alikes
No counterfeit specific to the Duora 10 LT is documented, and Yonex published no guide for the model; the checks in the callout are about consistency with Yonex’s own listings. Mix-ups within the family are the likelier problem, since every Duora shares the two-profile head and the long frame. A 3U or 2U frame is another Duora, such as the Duora 10, whatever the seller calls it. The Duora 9 of 2018 is the closest match, Japan-made, 4U and also rated Stiff, but Yonex sold it in Magenta under its own code, DUO9, with nickel-titanium fiber instead of Vibslayer Carbon in the frame; it has its own page. The Duora 6 is Japan-made and 4U too, but Yonex rated it Hi-Flex and sold it in Shine Pink and later Pearl White. A 5U turquoise-and-navy frame is the Duora Light, and a Taiwan marking points to the export Duora 77 or 88.
What came after
Yonex named no successor to the 10 LT. Its run ended with the wider Duora range, which by 2023 Yonex had cut to the Z-Strike, and its best-known user had already moved on: Zheng Siwei’s listing switched to the ArcSaber 11 Pro, which Yonex Japan had introduced in 2022, by the Denmark Open two months after his world title. In a Duora collection the 10 LT is the light, stiff version of the Duora 10, with the Vibslayer Carbon of the Duora 6, and a model Yonex listed for two mixed doubles world titles in successive years.
Yonex’s item code is DUO10LT. Yonex listed one weight class, 4U (average 83 g); its site gave G4, G5 or G6 grips, and Yonex USA’s 2019 catalog printed G5. The only Yonex finish is Pink/Yellow, a black frame with pink and yellow-green edges. The frame should be marked Made in Japan, with stiff flex and a length 10 mm over standard, and Yonex recommends 19–26 lb. Run a finger around the head: one face should have a squared box profile and the other a slimmer aero profile. A 3U or 2U label, a Hi-Flex rating or a Taiwan marking points to another Duora. Yonex’s own counterfeit test is the hologram sticker, which is hard to peel from a genuine racquet and lifts easily with a fingernail on a fake.
The 10 LT was sold new for nearly five years in one color, so buy on condition and identity. Confirm the DUO10LT name and the 4U marking rather than paying for a Duora 10, a Duora 6 or a Duora Light. Its world-title record belongs to the model, and Yonex’s reports never identify an individual frame, so treat match-used claims as unproven without documentation. Ask for daylight photographs of both head profiles, the T-joint and the cone, and look for cracks and repainting.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.