Muscle Power 100
Model MP-100 · Candra Wijaya, Tony Gunawan
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Muscle Power 100: the brand-new racquet Wijaya and Gunawan took to Sydney gold
A late switch for Sydney
Candra Wijaya and Tony Gunawan went to the Sydney Olympics as the top seeds in men’s doubles, and shortly before the Games they changed racquets. Yonex Japan’s report on the tournament says that because men’s doubles demands power above all, the pair decided just before the Olympics to play the new Muscle Power 100 rather than the racquet they were used to. On September 21, 2000, they beat Korea’s Lee Dong-soo and Yoo Yong-sung 15–10, 9–15, 15–7, and Indonesia had its fourth Olympic badminton gold since the sport’s 1992 debut. It was a rematch of the Yonex Open Japan final that April, which the Indonesians had also won. Yonex’s report names the MP-100 as the champions’ racquet, strung with BG65Ti.
The muscle frame, extended to the joint
Yonex Japan listed the MP-100 by October 2000 at ¥25,000 before tax, with a soft case, and its launch ad flagged it as a new release. Yonex’s corporate history calls it the first badminton racquet with the Muscle Power Frame, a raised, semicircular outer edge between the grommets. Its own 2000 product page is more precise: the frame had previously run from the top of the head to the sides, as on the 1999 Ti10, and the MP-100 extended it to the joint, which Yonex said gave the feel and rebound of a string tension 10% higher. The shaft used what Yonex called the world’s first Ultimum Ti shaft, a titanium material it credited with three times carbon’s strength and twice ordinary titanium’s rebound. Together, Yonex said, they gave a smash with 5% more acceleration. The frame combined high-modulus carbon with titanium mesh, and the racquet was 10 mm longer than standard.
Champions and staff players
Wijaya and Gunawan were the users Yonex Japan named on the MP-100’s product page in 2000, and Sydney is their documented result with it. The link did not last their careers: Yonex Japan’s staff pages had Wijaya on the Armortec 800 Defensive by 2004 and the Armortec 700 by late 2005. Those pages, which record each player’s current racquet rather than what was used in a given match, put a run of other pros on the MP-100: China’s Gong Ruina, the 2001 world singles champion, and Korea’s Ra Kyung-min in 2003; Denmark’s Camilla Martin and Jens Eriksen and Indonesia’s Tri Kusharjanto in 2004; and the Indonesian pair Alven Yulianto and Luluk Hadiyanto in late 2005. Retail copy sometimes names Korea’s Kim Dong-moon as a user, but the same 2004 staff pages list him on the Ti10.
One red frame, two markets
Yonex made the MP-100 in one finish, red (color 001), unchanged on Yonex Japan’s pages from 2000 to 2007, and issued no player or limited edition. The name was the same for export. Yonex USA had it on its Muscle Power page by December 2002, rated Extra Stiff, in 3U (85–89 g) and 2U (90–94 g), with power and control marks of 5 and 5, and ticked the Muscle Power Frame, Ultimum Ti, titanium mesh, isometric square head and built-in T-joint. Yonex’s 2006 export list described an ultra-high-modulus graphite and titanium mesh frame and a high-modulus graphite and Ultimum Ti shaft, made in Japan. Beside it sat the MP-99, also Extra Stiff, with Ultimum Ti in frame and shaft. Yonex’s US copy explained the series idea: the string ran over rounded archways instead of sharp grommet edges, which Yonex said kept tension at its peak a week after stringing.
Old stock from a six-year run
Verified sales of the MP-100 so far are pre-owned frames from Asia resale, and the price panel above lists them. It was sold for about six years. Yonex Japan still listed it in mid-2006 and kept a product page up into early 2007, and it files the model among those whose production ended in 2006, alongside the Armortec 800 pair and the head-light Muscle Power 60, which has its own page. Yonex’s export list still carried it in April 2006 and had dropped it by June 2007, when only the Muscle Power 99 and 45 remained in the series. Japan’s list price of ¥25,000 before tax never changed over the run. Any unused frame is therefore old stock around twenty years old, and a frame from the Sydney season looks the same as one made in 2006.
Copies and the red Ti10
No counterfeit report specific to the MP-100 has been found. In January 2009, though, a BadmintonCentral member wrote that most of the fake Yonex racquets he had met at his club were Nanospeed 8000s and 9000s, Armortecs and Muscle Power 99s and 100s bought online a few years earlier, all in SP and CH market versions. Yonex’s own warning of that period said many imitations sold through internet auctions were crude copies that broke easily. The other trap is an honest mix-up. The Ti10 of 1999 was also red, carried the same 001 color code, had the raised muscle frame and was 10 mm long, so a red frame with ridged grommets is not automatically an MP-100; the printed name settles it.
A landmark on Yonex’s timeline
When Yonex marked the 25th anniversary of its isometric head in 2017, it picked the MP-100 as one of thirteen landmark racquets, between the Ti10 and the Armortec 700. It remembered two things: the world-first Ultimum Ti shaft, and a vivid all-red racquet from a time, in Yonex’s words, when no racquet was colored all over. The MP-100 is sometimes described as a pure-graphite flagship from before exotic materials arrived. In fact it already carried titanium mesh and a titanium shaft, the Armortec 700 that followed in 2003 kept the Ultimum Ti shaft, and the two ranges were sold side by side until 2006. The Muscle Power line then shrank quickly, from five models on Yonex’s export list in April 2006 to two a year later.
Look for a red frame (Yonex color 001) with MUSCLEPOWER100 printed on the shaft and an Ultimum Ti label, as in Yonex’s launch ad, and a raised muscle frame that runs all the way to the joint. Yonex documents it as Extra Stiff, in 3U (85–89 g) or 2U (90–94 g) only, 10 mm longer than standard and made in Japan, with an ultra-high-modulus graphite and titanium mesh frame and a high-modulus graphite and Ultimum Ti shaft. Yonex published no balance point. A red, ridged, long frame could also be a 1999 Ti10, so read the name. Yonex’s later counterfeit guidance adds general checks: a hologram sticker, if present, should resist peeling; the O in YONEX should be narrow, not wide and round; and the production code on the cap above the handle should be laser-engraved.
The MP-100 is the racquet Yonex itself names for Indonesia’s Sydney 2000 men’s doubles gold, and a landmark on its own timeline for the first Ultimum Ti shaft. Buy it as a Japan-made red frame of that era rather than as a champion’s racquet, since no frame on the market has a documented match history. Confirm the printed name, check the head, the grommet ridges and the joint for cracks, and expect an unused example to be old stock from a run that ended in 2006.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.