Nanoflare 700 Pro
Model NF-700PRO · Arisa Higashino, Liu Shengshu
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Nanoflare 700 Pro: the racquet Arisa Higashino chose for her restart in women’s doubles
A new start in women’s doubles
When Arisa Higashino and Yuta Watanabe lost in the quarterfinals of the Japan Open in August 2024, weeks after their second Olympic bronze, it ended a mixed doubles partnership of 13 years. Yonex Japan’s report said Higashino would start again as a women’s doubles player with Ayako Sakuramoto, and that she planned to use a racquet not yet in shops: the Nanoflare 700 Pro, due in late September. She announced her marriage days later and has competed since as Arisa Igarashi. Yonex Japan lists her on the 700 Pro at the Kumamoto Masters that November and at the India Open in January 2025, where the new pair won their first title together, 21–15, 21–13 over Korea’s Kim Hye-jeong and Kong Hee-yong, less than five months after Yonex announced the partnership. Sakuramoto played the ArcSaber 11 Pro.
A remaster of the 2019 frame
Yonex announced the new Nanoflare 700 on August 19, 2024, saying the head-light model had gone without an upgrade since its 2019 debut, and promised faster, deeper clears. It launched worldwide on September 13 in four models, Pro, Tour, Game and Play; Yonex Japan sold the Pro, Tour and Game from late September and called them the second-generation 700. The Sonic Flare System puts high-modulus carbon at the top and bottom of the frame, and on the Pro and Tour, Yonex Japan says, a stiffer frame top and a sharper-angled lower frame lift clear speed. New to the 700 is Servo Filter, an epoxy resin film between carbon layers that Yonex says damps vibration six times faster than graphite alone. The Pro is made in Japan, rated medium flex and head-light, and sold in 4U (average 83 g) and 5U (average 78 g). Yonex recommends 20–28 lb in 4U and 19–27 lb in 5U, and Yonex Japan’s launch price was ¥29,000 before tax.
Who plays the Pro
Yonex Japan’s equipment lists name the Pro for a small group of doubles players. Besides Igarashi, China’s Liu Shengshu is on it at the November 2024 Kumamoto Masters, where she and Tan Ning won the women’s doubles, beating Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto in the final. In July 2026 the lists still print the full name for Korea’s Kim Hye-jeong at the Japan Open and China’s Chen Fanghui at the China Open. Yonex’s launch news named one player for the new 700, Chae Yu-jung, the 2023 world mixed doubles champion, without saying which model, and the Pro’s global product page features six Korean and Chinese doubles players, among them Kim Won-ho, Seo Seung-jae, Liu and Tan. From 2025 many Yonex lists print a bare “Nanoflare 700.” That is how they record Kim and Seo, and Liu and Tan, for their world titles in Paris in August 2025, so the lists do not show which 700 won them.
Pro, Tour, Game and Play
The four 2024 models share the name and concept but not the materials. The Pro, item code 2NF-700P, is the only one Yonex lists as made in Japan. The Tour keeps the medium flex and both weights but uses Nanocell NEO where the Pro’s frame has M40X, and is made in Taiwan; the Game is a Hi-Flex 4U frame, also from Taiwan, and the Play a graphite racquet made in China. All four launched in Midnight Purple, and the Tour, Game and Play also in Silver/Sky Blue, so the purple was never the Pro’s alone. In March 2026 Yonex Japan released the Tour and Game in a new Light Beige design, while the Pro stays Midnight Purple only. Against its stiffer sibling, the Nanoflare 800 Pro, Yonex lists the 700 Pro as medium rather than stiff, and in 4U and 5U rather than 3U and 4U. The Tour, Game and Play each have their own page, as does the 2019 Nanoflare 700, a different racquet.
A current model in resale
The 700 Pro is current production. Yonex’s global and Japanese sites still list it in October 2026, in its single color, and no limited or player edition of the Pro has been documented, so new stock remains the reference point for an unused racquet. The verified sales shown above come from the Asian resale market in September 2026 and are mostly pre-owned, with new and pre-owned valued separately. The name is the complication. “Nanoflare 700” on its own can mean any of the four 2024 models or the 2019 original, so the Pro marking or the item code 2NF-700P is what identifies the Pro in a listing.
Fakes and the shared name
No counterfeit specific to the Nanoflare 700 Pro has been documented. Yonex’s guidance warns that counterfeits circulate especially on online shopping sites, auctions and flea markets, and that they are hard to tell from genuine racquets by sight. A Japan-made frame on the tour’s equipment lists is the kind counterfeiters copy, so the general checks apply. Mistaken identity is the likelier problem. The Tour shares the Pro’s flex, weights and purple, the Game and Play share the purple, and the 2019 original shares the name. Yonex gives the Pro’s length only as 10 mm longer than standard, never as a figure in millimeters, so a quoted overall length is not a Yonex specification. The callout lists the checks.
The middle of the Nanoflare range
In Yonex’s current head-light range the 700 is the medium-flex option beside the stiff Nanoflare 800 Pro and the flagship Nanoflare 1000 Z. Yonex Japan’s suitability grid rates the 700 Pro best for intermediate men and advanced women and suitable for advanced men and intermediate women, the same best-fit reading it gave the 2019 700, and does not rate it for beginners. Its pitch is to players who build their game on smashes, drives and especially clears. Coach Paul Stewart, reviewing it the week of its release, called it “an absolute delight” to play with, found a little more flex in the shaft than in the original 700, and felt its string bed lighter and airier than the 800 Pro’s. Its documented record so far is in doubles, led by Igarashi’s new partnership and Liu Shengshu’s Kumamoto title.
Yonex’s item code is 2NF-700P, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan; the Tour and Game are made in Taiwan and the Play in China. Yonex lists medium flex, a head-light balance and two weight classes, 4U (average 83 g) and 5U (average 78 g), with grips 5 or 6, and marks the frame 10 mm longer than standard without giving a length in millimeters. The Pro’s only color is Midnight Purple, which the Tour, Game and Play share, so read the printed PRO name. Yonex’s global page lists the frame as HM Graphite, Nanometric DR, M40X and EX-Hyper MG and the shaft as HM Graphite, Super HMG and Ultra PE Fiber; Yonex Japan’s release lists Super HMG and Servo Filter in the frame. A blue-green, red or black frame coded NF-700 is the 2019 original. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet.
A current, Japan-made head-light racquet still sold new, so a player can choose on weight and grip. Its documented story is Arisa Igarashi’s move into women’s doubles and Liu Shengshu’s use on tour. When buying second-hand, confirm the PRO marking, the 2NF-700P code and the Made in Japan line before anything else, since three other 2024 racquets and the 2019 original share the name. Treat a claim that a frame won the 2025 world titles as unproven: Yonex’s lists for those finals name only a “Nanoflare 700.”
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.