Nanoray 750
Model NR-750 · Hu Yun, B. Sai Praneeth
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Nanoray 750: built for women and seniors, in Sai Praneeth’s hands against Lee Chong Wei
A clear racquet on the men’s tour
Yonex Japan built the Nanoray 750 for a specific buyer. Its May 2013 release names the main market as women and seniors at intermediate and advanced level, and the shot as the clear, which Yonex said that group used more than any other to set up points. Yet the racquet’s best-known results came in men’s singles. In the first round of the 2016 All England, India’s B. Sai Praneeth beat the second seed, Lee Chong Wei, 24–22, 22–20; Yonex’s report lists Sai Praneeth on the Nanoray 750 and Lee on the Duora 10 LCW. Hong Kong’s Hu Yun, the player Yonex names with the 750 most often, took it to two Superseries finals.
Trans Weight System and the speed clear
Yonex Japan announced the 750 on May 14, 2013 and put it on sale in early June in Shine Gold, made in Japan, at ¥23,000 before tax, the same price as the Nanoray 800 of 2012. Its idea was the Trans Weight System, a weight layout Yonex said Nanometric made possible: the frame was lightened and the saved mass moved to the grip end, so the head-light design sped up the swing while the weight at the grip end amplified its force. Yonex’s footnote says Nanometric applies Toray’s Nanoalloy technology. The frame paired high-modulus carbon with Nanometric, the shaft high-modulus carbon with X-Fullerene, joined by a new built-in T-joint. In Yonex’s test with an advanced woman player in her forties, the 750 raised the clear’s initial speed by about 20 km/h over a previous Yonex racquet, from 190 to 210 km/h. Yonex’s English copy promised “devastating speed and acceleration for deeper and faster clear shot making.”
Hu Yun, Sai Praneeth and others
Hu Yun was seeded eighth at the June 2014 Yonex Open Japan and reached the final on the 750, losing 21–14, 21–12 to Lee. At the April 2015 Singapore Open he beat world No. 1 Chen Long 12–21, 21–17, 21–18 in the second round and lost the final 21–17, 16–21, 21–15 to Kento Momota, whom Yonex called the first Japanese player to win a men’s singles Superseries title. Yonex still lists Hu on the 750 at the October 2015 Denmark Open and at the Superseries Finals in Dubai in December 2015 and December 2016. After beating Lee in March 2016, Sai Praneeth lost the next round to Hans-Kristian Vittinghus. Yonex also lists India’s Manu Attri on the 750 at the 2015 All England, Poland’s Nadiezda Zieba when she won the 2015 Bitburger Open mixed doubles with Robert Mateusiak, and Japan’s para-badminton player Mamiko Toyoda, women’s singles gold at the 2015 Indonesia Para-Badminton International.
Shine Gold, then Crystal Blue
Yonex sold the 750 under one item code, NR750, in two designs. Shine Gold was the launch design and the only one until mid-2016. Between July 9 and July 27, 2016, Yonex Japan’s page added a “new design” in Crystal Blue beside the gold; by May 2017 only Crystal Blue remained, and Yonex’s global page showed Crystal Blue from 2017 too, with the same Medium frame and the same 4U and 3U classes. No player edition or limited version of the 750 appears in any Yonex list checked. Within the series it sat beside its siblings rather than above them: Yonex called the stiff Nanoray 800 of 2012 the flagship, priced the Nanoray 900 of 2014 higher, at ¥25,000 before tax, and billed the Z-Speed as the world’s fastest racquet.
Seven years in the range
The 750 stayed in Yonex’s range for seven years. Yonex Japan’s Nanoray list still carried it in December 2019 and February 2020, beside the 900 and 800, and by August 2020 all three were gone; Yonex’s global page, by then showing Crystal Blue, was still up in April 2020. Yonex Japan’s 2019 page rates it for advanced and intermediate women and intermediate men, with a double circle for advanced women, the only group it marks that way, and dashes for beginners and advanced men. Verified sales so far, all pre-owned and from Asia resale, count its designs together; the price panel above lists them.
Mix-ups within the family
No counterfeit report specific to the Nanoray 750 has been found, and Yonex published no guide for the model. The likelier confusion is with its siblings. The 750 shares the Japanese build and X-Fullerene shaft of the Nanoray 800 and 900, but Yonex rated it Medium where they are stiff, and Yonex Japan’s gauge for the 750 sits well on the head-light side, while the 800’s sits just head-light of even. The Nanoray 700 FX of 2011 is also Medium with an X-Fullerene shaft, but its frame uses Toughlex rather than Nanometric. A gold frame offered as a “rare” 750 is most likely the standard Shine Gold design, which Yonex sold from 2013 until 2016 or early 2017.
Outlasting the Nanoray line
The 750 outlived most of the Nanoray line it joined. By the time Yonex Japan dropped it in 2020, the head-light Nanoflare 700 and 800 had arrived in 2019, and Yonex Japan’s list of August 2020 kept only the Nanoray Z-Speed, GlanZ, 450 Light and 110. Its tour record is small but documented in Yonex’s own reports: Hu Yun’s two Superseries finals of 2014 and 2015, and Sai Praneeth’s first-round win over Lee Chong Wei at the 2016 All England. Sai Praneeth had moved to the Voltric 80 E-tune by the time he won the 2017 Singapore Open.
Yonex’s item code is NR750, and every Yonex listing gives Made in Japan. Yonex rated the flex Medium and offered 4U (80–84.9 g, later an average of 83 g) and 3U (85–89.9 g, later an average of 88 g); its global pages list grip 4, 5 or 6 for the 4U and 4 or 5 for the 3U, while Yonex Japan lists 5 and 6 for both. A 2U or 5U frame doesn’t match any Yonex listing. Yonex lists a high-modulus graphite frame with Nanometric and a high-modulus graphite shaft with X-Fullerene, and the two Yonex designs are Shine Gold (2013) and Crystal Blue (2016). Yonex recommends 19–24 lb for the 4U and 20–25 lb for the 3U. 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 750 is a Japan-made, Medium-flex Nanoray of 2013–2020 with a small but documented tour record through Hu Yun and Sai Praneeth. Decide between the Shine Gold and Crystal Blue designs, and read “rare” or “limited” on a gold frame as a seller’s label. Ask for photographs of the weight label and the Made in Japan marking, check the head and T-joint for cracks, and treat any claim that a particular frame was used by a named player as unproven without documentation.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.