Nanoflare 800
Model NF-800 · Mayu Matsumoto
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Nanoflare 800: Mayu Matsumoto defended her world title with it before it reached shops
A world title before launch day
Yonex announced the Nanoflare 800 in July 2019 for a worldwide release in early September, but it won a world title first. At the World Championships in Basel that August, Mayu Matsumoto switched to it for the tournament, Yonex Japan reported, and on August 25 she and Wakana Nagahara beat Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota 21–11, 20–22, 23–21 in an 85-minute all-Japanese final. They became the first Japanese pair to retain a world title. Two weeks later, in the racquet’s first week on sale, Sung Ji-hyun won the Chinese Taipei Open women’s singles and Tan Wee Kiong the men’s doubles with it, and Yonex Japan’s report headlined the 800 as a big talking point of the event.
The Razor Frame
The 800 revived a name Yonex had first used in 1996, for the Super Isometric 10: Yonex Japan called its new frame razor-thin. Against a typical thin frame, the top was 13.0% slimmer and the bottom 15.1%, cutting air resistance by 9.3% and 11.5% respectively; Yonex summed it up as up to 11.5% less drag from any angle. Its machine test credited the faster swing with 27.4 km/h more shuttle speed on smashes and 17.6 km/h on drives, and with letting players meet the shuttle further in front. Yonex’s Sonic Flare System put EX-HMG carbon at the frame top, which it said gave 7.3% more rebound than before, and M40X over a wide area of the lower frame, with Nanometric in an Ultra Slim Shaft. Yonex rated it stiff and head-light and aimed it at advanced players. It was made in Japan in Matte Black, 3U and 4U, at ¥25,000 before tax, and Yonex recommends 21–29 lb in 3U and 20–28 lb in 4U.
Matsumoto, Lee Yang and the doubles specialists
Matsumoto stayed with it: Yonex Japan lists her on the 800 for the December 2019 World Tour Finals, where she and Nagahara were runners-up, and into 2020. Its users on Yonex’s lists were mostly doubles players. Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang played it while his partner Wang Chi-lin used the Nanoflare 700, and Yonex lists that combination as they won three straight tournaments in Bangkok in January 2021. France’s Tom Gicquel had it when he and Delphine Delrue won the March 2021 Swiss Open, their first title at Super 300 level or above, and Japan’s Chiharu Shida when she and Nami Matsuyama won their first All England in March 2022. Lee and Wang won the Tokyo 2020 men’s doubles gold in July 2021, but no Yonex equipment list for those Olympics was found; only a racquet-spotting blog places Lee’s 800 there.
Matte Black, then the LT and the Pro
The original 800 came in one color, Matte Black. Its sibling the Nanoflare 700, launched in March 2019, is a separate medium-flex frame aimed at a wider range of players. In September 2020 Yonex released the Nanoflare 800 LT, saying many players had asked for a lighter 800: it is 5U only, in Black/Ice Blue, with Vibration Dampening Mesh at the frame top to keep control in the lighter frame, and it has its own page. In October 2023 Yonex Japan announced a new Nanoflare 800 in two models, the 800 Pro and 800 Game, for late November, and by the end of that month Yonex’s global site also listed a Tour and a Play, all four in Deep Green. Those are new frames under new item codes (NF-800P, NF-800T, NF-800G and NF-800PL), not the 2019 racquet, and each has its own page. Yonex’s 2019 Nanoflare site also listed a cheaper Nanoflare 380 Sharp with the same stiff, head-light brief, which should not be confused with the 800; it has its own page.
About four years on sale
The 800 had a run of about four years. Yonex Japan’s product page was still live in August 2023 and Yonex’s global page in late September, but Yonex Japan’s racquet list of December 2023 showed the new 800 Pro and 800 Game and no longer the original, while still carrying the Nanoflare 700. Its verified sales so far, from Asia resale, are too few for more than estimates of the new and pre-owned values, and they count only the 2019 original, not its 2023 successors or the 800 LT. Identity is the first thing to settle in any listing. “Nanoflare 800” alone can mean the Matte Black original, the 5U LT or one of the later Pro, Tour, Game and Play racquets, and the weight class and item code are what separate them.
Fakes and confusion
No counterfeit specific to the Nanoflare 800 has been documented. Yonex’s current guidance gives one general test, the hologram sticker, and warns that fakes are hard to spot by sight. A Japan-made frame used by world champions is the kind of racquet counterfeiters copy, so the usual checks apply. The likelier problem is mistaken identity. The LT shares the name and much of the look but is 5U and differently colored, and the 2023 Pro family reuses the name on new frames. The callout lists the checks.
A sharp, demanding doubles frame
Japanese player reviews praise its swing-through and quick handling, especially at the front of the court in doubles, and warn that the hard shaft and compact feel do not suit everyone. Yonex’s own grid agreed, rating it best for advanced men and women and not rating it for beginners. Its reputation reached players of older head-light frames too: in a 2023 BadmintonCentral thread, a player whose Nanospeed 9900 had broken after more than ten years was steered toward the Nanoflare 800 more than any other racquet. Its name carried on in the 800 Pro family of late 2023, while the top of Yonex’s head-light range passed to the Nanoflare 1000 Z, which Yonex launched that June as its new flagship.
Yonex’s item code is NF-800, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan. The original comes only in Matte Black. Yonex lists stiff flex and two weight classes, 4U (average 83 g) and 3U (average 88 g); a 5U frame in Black/Ice Blue is the Nanoflare 800 LT (code NF-800LT), and 800 Pro, Tour, Game or Play markings belong to the 2023 family. Yonex lists EX-HMG and M40X in the frame and Nanometric in the shaft, with the Razor Frame among its technologies, and Yonex Japan’s page marks it 10 mm longer than a standard racquet. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine frame.
A Japan-made, stiff head-light frame from 2019 to 2023, remembered for Matsumoto’s defended world title and its doubles users. Before paying, confirm it is the Matte Black original in 3U or 4U and not the 5U 800 LT or a later 800 Pro, Tour, Game or Play. Ask for photographs of the item code, weight class and Made in Japan marking, and check a stiff frame’s head and T-joint for cracks. Treat any claim that a frame was a named player’s match racquet as unproven without documentation.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.