Nanoray 10
Model NR-10
Price history
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Nanoray 10: the Taiwan-made all-rounder at the foot of Yonex’s 2012 Nanoray line
Last of eleven Nanorays
On September 18, 2012, Yonex’s global site listed eleven Nanoray models, from the Nanoray 800, which had gone on sale in Japan four days earlier, down to the Nanoray 10 at the bottom of the page. Yonex never called it a beginner’s racquet. Its product page described it in a single line as “a versatile and powerful model designed for all-round play”; the “entry-level” and “beginner” labels come from retailers. Nor was it where the series began: the Nanoray 700 FX and 700 RP had been on sale in Japan since September 2011, a year before the Nanoray 10 appeared.
Graphite frame, nanotube shaft
Yonex’s specification for item code NR10 was short: flex Flexible, a graphite frame, and a graphite shaft with NANOMESH + CARBON NANOTUBE. It came in one weight class, 4U (80–84.9 g on the 2012–13 pages, an average of 83 g from 2014), with grip 4 or 5, and Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. The pages give Made in Taiwan from May 2013, and Yonex UK’s 2015 brochure adds a built-in T-joint and a frame 10 mm longer than standard. The same shaft material ran through Yonex’s other Taiwan-made Nanorays, such as the Nanoray 20, while Japan-made models such as the Nanoray 750 and 800 used X-Fullerene. Every Nanoray page carried Yonex’s series line, “The latest head-light series from YONEX, NANORAY provides a fast and controlled swing with enhanced repulsion via the New Aero Frame,” but Yonex published no balance figure for the Nanoray 10 itself.
No documented tour user
No professional player is documented on the Nanoray 10. Yonex’s English tournament reports of 2012–2016 name the racquet of each Team Yonex player they mention, and none of those checked lists this one. Its record is that of a catalog model: several colors under a single item code, listed by Yonex for just over three years.
Three color sets, then the 10F
Yonex kept one item code, NR10, through three sets of colors on its global site: White/Yellow and White/Sax in 2012–13; Gun Metallic, Red and White/Pink by June 2014; and White/Black, White/Champagne and White/Blue by November 2015. The Nanoray 10F that followed is a separate model, not a rename. It has its own item code, NR10F, and is on Yonex’s site by April 2016: flexible, fitted with a TFA cap that Yonex said “sends the shuttlecock flying with ease while maintaining a mild feeling,” and sold in White/Orange, White/Pink and Silver/Black. A later Yonex page labels the 10F Hi-Flex and lists it in Black/Red, Black/Blue and Black/Green.
Three years in Yonex’s range
Yonex’s global product page for the Nanoray 10 ran from October 2012 to at least November 2015 and was gone by March 2016; the 10F’s page was up by April. Yonex UK’s 2015 brochure still carried it near the foot of a Nanoray table that ran from the GlanZ and Z-Speed down to the aluminum-framed Nanoray 5. The Nanoray 10 does not appear in Yonex Japan’s old-model indexes, which suggests it was sold outside Japan only. Its US launch price was $65. Verified sales so far are pre-owned frames from Asia resale, and the price panel above lists them.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit report specific to the Nanoray 10 has been found, and Yonex published no guide for the model. The likelier problem is confusion with the Nanoray 10F, which shares the number but carries its own item code and a TFA cap. Color narrows it down: orange, silver/black and the later black 10F colors appear in no Yonex listing for the Nanoray 10, while White/Pink appears in both, so a white and pink frame needs its code checked. Weight helps too. Yonex listed the Nanoray 10 only in 4U, so a 3U or 5U frame sold under the name is a different racquet.
The number the 10F carried on
The Nanoray 10 has no player history and no special editions. Its place in a Nanoray collection is as the lowest-numbered model on Yonex’s 2012 list and the frame whose number the 10F carried into the Hi-Flex era. For a collector the main choice is the color set: the White/Yellow and White/Sax of 2012–13, the Gun Metallic, Red and White/Pink of 2014, or the White/Black, White/Champagne and White/Blue of 2015.
Yonex’s item code is NR10, and Yonex lists it as Flexible, Made in Taiwan, with a graphite frame and a graphite shaft with NANOMESH + CARBON NANOTUBE. Yonex offered only 4U (80–84.9 g, later an average of 83 g) with grip 4 or 5, so a 3U or 5U frame doesn’t match any Yonex listing. The Yonex colors are White/Yellow and White/Sax (2012–13), Gun Metallic, Red and White/Pink (2014) and White/Black, White/Champagne and White/Blue (2015). Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. A frame coded NR10F, or one with a TFA cap, is the later Nanoray 10F. Yonex’s own tests are the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet, and the production code laser-engraved on the cap above the handle.
The Nanoray 10 is a Taiwan-made export Nanoray of 2012–2015 with no documented player use and no editions, so the color set and condition are what separate one example from another. Confirm that the frame is coded NR10 and not NR10F, ask for photographs of the weight label and the Made in Taiwan marking, and check the head and T-joint for cracks before buying.
Verified prices last updated Aug 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.