Nanoray 700 RP
Model NR-700RP · Saina Nehwal, Liliyana Natsir
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Nanoray 700 RP: the stiff twin behind Saina Nehwal’s and Liliyana Natsir’s 2012 titles
A new racquet at the 2011 Finals
At the December 2011 Superseries Finals in Liuzhou, Saina Nehwal reached the women’s singles final and lost it to Wang Yihan 21–18, 13–21, 13–21 after 71 minutes, the longest match of the event. Yonex’s report credited the racquet: “Behind all of Saina’s wins at the Superseries Finals was the new racquet NANORAY 700RP,” which had helped her beat two top-five players, and Yonex later wrote that she reached that final “just after she started to use it.” Indonesia’s Liliyana Natsir had switched to the same racquet at the end of 2011. In March 2012 she and Tontowi Ahmad won the All England and the Swiss Open, and Yonex quoted her: “The NANORAY 700RP is a perfect weight and balance.” The 700 RP was one half of Yonex’s first Nanoray pair; the other, the Nanoray 700 FX, outlived it by more than five years.
Fullerene low in the frame
Yonex Japan launched both Nanoray 700s in mid-September 2011, made in Japan, at ¥21,000 before tax each. The series concept, an Aero frame deep at the bottom of the head and slim at the top on an X-Fullerene shaft, is described on the 700 FX page. The RP’s share of it was speed: its Japanese tagline was “overwhelm with speed drives” (スピードドライブで圧倒する). Yonex put fullerene, which it called high in elastic modulus and strength, into the lower frame sides, so that it worked with the stiff lower section of the Aero frame to accelerate drives. Yonex’s global page of 2012 said the frame “repels sharply for quick rally play” and rated the flex Stiff, against the FX’s Medium. Yonex Japan aimed the pair at students and young working adults of intermediate and advanced level, and recommended BG66 Ultimax for hard hitters and Nanogy 98 for control players, the reverse of the FX’s pairing.
Nehwal, Natsir, Sindhu and Goh
Yonex’s match reports tag Nehwal on the 700RP through 2012: she defended her Swiss Open title in March and won the Indonesia Open in June and the Denmark Open in October. Her English staff page still showed the ArcSaber 7 on January 1, 2012 and listed the 700RP by March. She was still on it in January 2014, when she beat P. V. Sindhu, also on the 700RP, in the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold final in Lucknow. Sindhu’s own Yonex record on it includes the 2013 Malaysia Grand Prix Gold title, a win over former world champion Wang Yihan at the 2013 World Championships, and the 2013 Macau Open. Natsir, with Ahmad, also won the 2012 Macau Open on it. Malaysia’s Goh Liu Ying used it in mixed doubles with Chan Peng Soon, winning the May 2012 Malaysia Grand Prix Gold, and at the 2013 Sudirman Cup she met Birgit Michels, on the 700 FX, in a match told on that page.
Shine Orange, then Flash Red
Yonex sold the RP under one item code, NR700RP, in two colors. Shine Orange was the 2011 launch color, shared with the FX, so early frames of the two look alike. Yonex Japan added Flash Red for mid-November 2012, in the same release that gave the FX its Shine Silver/Red, and from May 2013 Yonex’s global page listed the RP in Flash Red only. No Yonex list checked includes a player or limited edition of the 700 RP, despite its best-known users. Yonex never spells out the letters: “Repulsion” comes from US retail copy (“the Nanoray 700RP or Repulsion”), and some Asian retailers add “SP” to the code, a suffix no Yonex listing uses. The weight classes were the same as the FX’s, 4U and 3U.
Two years in production
At launch Yonex set one annual sales target, 30,000 racquets, for the two 700s combined; the RP’s US launch price was $245, the same as the FX’s. The RP had a much shorter run. Yonex Japan’s old-model index lists the Nanoray 700 RP among its 2013 production ends, beside the Voltric Z-Force, Nanospeed 9900 and Nanospeed 1000, and Yonex’s global page had lost its product details by mid-2014. Yonex’s UK catalog for 2015 carried the FX alone. The verified sales shown above are all pre-owned frames from Asia resale, and there are fewer of them than for the longer-lived FX. Expect Flash Red and orange frames from 2011–2013, and check each listing for the RP lettering.
The “RP shaft” and other mix-ups
No counterfeit report specific to the Nanoray 700 RP has been found, and Yonex published no guide for the model. The common confusion is over what the letters change. Blog reviews from 2012 read RP and FX as “repulsion” and “flex” and described the RP as the stiff-shafted option and the FX as the flexible-shafted one, a reading that still circulates. Yonex’s specification gives both racquets the same high-modulus graphite shaft with X-Fullerene; the difference lies in the frame, fullerene in the RP and Toughlex resin in the FX, and in Yonex’s flex rating, Stiff against Medium. Color is no shortcut either: the FX also came in orange at launch, and its later designs, Shine Silver/Red and White/High Red, both carry red.
Tagged after it was gone
Yonex’s reports kept naming the 700RP after its 2013 production end. Nehwal and Sindhu played the January 2014 Syed Modi final with it, and in January 2015 Malaysia’s Soong Fie Cho won the same tournament’s women’s doubles title with Anscelly Amelia Alicia, Soong on the 700RP. By then the Nanoray 800 of September 2012 had become Yonex’s attacking Nanoray, with an X-Fullerene shaft and a titanium-alloy frame top, followed by the 900 in 2014. A September 2012 review on the everythinggoeshere blog liked driving with the RP for its quick transfer of energy from the wrist and concluded: “The Yonex Nanoray 700RP gives you superb control, it’s almost perfect.”
Yonex’s item code is NR700RP, and every Yonex listing gives Made in Japan. Yonex offered 4U (80–84.9 g) and 3U (85–89.9 g), so a 5U or 2U frame matches no Yonex listing. Yonex lists a high-modulus graphite frame with fullerene and a high-modulus graphite shaft with X-Fullerene, flex Stiff, and Yonex Japan marks the frame 10 mm longer than standard. The two Yonex colors are Shine Orange (2011) and Flash Red (late 2012); an orange frame is the launch design shared with the 700 FX, so check that it says RP. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb for the 4U and 20–25 lb for the 3U. Yonex’s counterfeit guide says the production code is laser-engraved on the cap above the handle.
The Nanoray 700 RP is the stiff, Japan-made half of Yonex’s first Nanoray pair, made only from 2011 to 2013 and documented in the hands of Saina Nehwal, Liliyana Natsir, P. V. Sindhu and Goh Liu Ying. Confirm the RP lettering on any orange frame, and remember Yonex names models, not colors, in its match reports, so no color can be tied to a particular title. Ask for photographs of the weight label, the Made in Japan marking and the code on the cap, check the head and T-joint for cracks, and treat any claim of pro use as unproven without documentation.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.