Nanoray 800
Model NR-800 · Hendra Setiawan, Christinna Pedersen
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Nanoray 800: Hendra Setiawan’s racquet for his 2013 world title with Mohammad Ahsan
A world title in Guangzhou
At the 2013 World Championships in Guangzhou, Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, seeded sixth, beat Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen 21–13, 23–21 for their first world title together. Yonex’s report lists Setiawan on the Nanoray 800 and Ahsan on the ArcSaber FB; it has its own page. The pair had only started playing together that January. Setiawan already had a world title, from 2007 with Markis Kido, and Olympic gold from Beijing 2008; with Ahsan he went on to win the Superseries Finals that December and the All England in March 2014, both with the 800 in Yonex’s reports. The Nanoray 900, the racquet of the pair’s second world title in 2015, came out only in mid-2014, so the first stretch of their partnership belongs to the 800.
Built for the drive
Yonex Japan announced the Nanoray 800 on August 22, 2012 and put it on sale on September 14 in Flash Blue, made in Japan, at ¥23,000 before tax. Its release explained the thinking. More players were using flat drives skimmed just over the net to deny opponents a chance to smash, rallies were getting shorter and faster, and the 800 was built to swing through and recover quickly in them. Yonex varied the frame from top to bottom: a thin upper section to cut air resistance, and a thicker lower section with rounded corners for stiffness without slowing the swing. A new titanium alloy, Sonic Metal, went into the top of the frame for repulsion and a high, clear impact sound, and the whole shaft carried X-Fullerene, which Yonex said gave 4% more repulsion and 6% more stiffness than ordinary fullerene. Yonex’s English launch note called it the flagship of the Nanoray series and its most attacking model, with its thinnest frame top yet.
Setiawan, Pedersen and a doubles following
Yonex’s reports show the 800 in doubles players’ hands from its first week. Six days after it went on sale, Japan’s Noriyasu Hirata used it at the Yonex Open Japan, and by the French Open that October Denmark’s top-seeded Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl were both on it. Pedersen stayed with it for three and a half years. She won the 2012 Superseries Finals mixed title on it with Joachim Fischer Nielsen, and at the 2013 Finals in Kuala Lumpur she won both the women’s doubles, with Juhl, and the mixed, on the day Ahsan and Setiawan took the men’s title. Yonex also lists her on it for the 2014 European women’s doubles and mixed titles and the 2015 world women’s doubles silver. Setiawan had moved to the 800 by the March 2013 All England, where Yonex quoted him praising its quick handling and extra repulsion.
Three designs under one code
Yonex sold the 800 under one item code, NR800, in three designs. Flash Blue was the 2012 launch color and was still the color in Yonex Poland’s 2017 catalog. By January 2018 Yonex Japan’s page listed a new Black/Magenta design beside the blue. On June 8, 2018 Yonex Japan announced a third, Poinsettia Red, for late June: a glossy red with thick lines and touches of yellow and fluorescent red, which Yonex likened to a rainforest butterfly. Yonex’s global news called it a redesign. Neither announcement calls the red limited, so a red frame offered as a “limited color” is this standard design. Yonex made no player edition of the 800. No Nanoray 800 Pro, Game or Play appears on Yonex’s lists; those names belong to the Nanoflare 800 Pro, Game, Tour and Play of 2023, which have their own pages. A 5U frame sold as a “Nanoray 800 LT” is most likely the Nanoflare 800 LT.
Eight years in the range
The 800 was a long-running model. At launch Yonex set a sales target of 60,000 a year in Japan and abroad, and in 2018 it said a great many players had used the racquet since 2012. Yonex sold the Nanoray 900 of 2014 beside it rather than in its place: Yonex Japan’s Nanoray list of December 2019 still carried the Z-Speed, GlanZ, 900, 800 and 750, while the head-light Nanoflare 700 and 800 had already arrived. Yonex’s 2019 catalog still named the 800 in its stringing instructions, and Yonex Japan listed it until early 2020; it was gone from that list by August. Verified sales so far are almost all pre-owned frames from Asia resale, with one unused example, and the price panel above lists them.
Fakes and mix-ups
No counterfeit report specific to the Nanoray 800 has been found, and Yonex published no guide for the model. Mix-ups are the likelier problem. The Nanoflare 800 of 2019 is a different, later racquet with a similar name, and the 2023 Nanoflare 800 Pro and Game are different again. Within the Nanoray line, the 800 and the 900 were sold side by side and the 900 came in 2U, a class Yonex never listed for the 800. Balance is a poor test: Yonex billed Nanoray as a head-light series, and the 800’s own Japanese gauge sits just on the head-light side of even. For a disputed frame, Yonex Japan says it doesn’t judge authenticity from photographs or email; it asks owners to send the racquet itself.
From Nanoray to Nanoflare
Reviewers were cooler than the players. UK coach Paul Stewart gave it four stars in January 2013, praising its speed and control at the net but finding it weak for smashing, and judged it no clear step up from the Nanospeed 9900. Its best-known players moved on: Ahsan and Setiawan to the Nanoray 900 at the May 2014 Thomas Cup, and Pedersen to the Duora 7 by the spring of 2016. Others kept it longer. Debby Susanto, on the 800, won the 2017 Korea Open mixed doubles with Praveen Jordan. In 2019 Yonex launched the head-light Nanoflare 700 and 800, and the Nanoray 800 left Yonex Japan’s list in 2020, after eight years on sale.
Yonex’s item code is NR800, and every Yonex listing gives Made in Japan. Yonex offered 4U (average 83 g) and 3U (average 88 g), each with grip 4 or 5, and rated the flex stiff, so a 2U or 5U frame doesn’t match any Yonex listing for the 800. The three Yonex designs are Flash Blue (Yonex Japan color 360, 2012), Black/Magenta (by early 2018) and Poinsettia Red (mid-2018). Yonex lists a high-modulus graphite frame with Sonic Metal and a high-modulus graphite shaft with X-Fullerene, and Yonex Japan marks the frame 10 mm longer than standard. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb for the 4U and 20–25 lb for the 3U. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet.
The Nanoray 800 is a Japan-made Nanoray whose documented tour record is in doubles: Setiawan’s 2013 world title and Superseries Finals, and Pedersen’s doubles titles of 2012–2014. Decide which design you want, Flash Blue, Black/Magenta or Poinsettia Red, and read “limited” on a red frame as a seller’s label. Ask for photographs of the weight label, the Made in Japan marking and the cone code, 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.