Nanospeed 300
Model NS-300
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Nanospeed 300: the medium-flex, Silver top of Yonex’s 2009 Taiwan-made Nanospeed trio
The stiffest of three new export Nanospeeds
The Nanospeed 300 was one of three Taiwan-made Nanospeeds that Yonex added to its international (export) list in March 2009, with the 200 and the 100. It was the only one of the three rated Medium rather than Flexible, and the only one listed with a Shockless Grommet. Yonex named no player for it and printed no price, and no Yonex Japan listing of it is known.
Graphite frame, nanotube shaft
Yonex gives no launch date. The 300 first appears on its export Nanospeed list in mid-March 2009, tagged “New!!” beside the 200, the 100 and the new 9900; the list as it stood on 9 March did not yet show it, so 2009 is the year it was first documented. Yonex listed a graphite frame, a shaft of graphite and carbon nanotube, Medium flex and one weight class, 3U (85.0–89.9 g), with grips G3–G5, made in Taiwan. Its technology line named Isometric, the Aro-Box Vari Frame, the Shockless Grommet and the built-in T-joint, and in 2009 also Cup Stack Carbon Nanotube and Nanoscience. Yonex’s 2010 series text calls Nanospeed its most head-light series, but Yonex gave no balance for the 300 itself.
No player on record
Yonex’s list pages name no player for the Nanospeed 300, and no Yonex tournament report or staff page connecting a player to it is known. Yonex printed no level wording for it either; on the list it sat below the Taiwan-made 800 and 500 and above the 200 and 100.
A 2010 design, and the siblings
In April 2010 the list tagged the 300 “New Design!!” and printed its color, Silver, for the first time; the flex, materials, weight class and origin were unchanged, while the Cup Stack Carbon Nanotube and Nanoscience icons no longer appeared. Yonex printed no color for the 2009 design. The Nanospeed 200 shares the graphite frame and Aro-Box Vari Frame but is Flexible, Blue and listed without the Shockless Grommet; the 100 is Flexible and has no Aro-Box. The 500 put carbon nanotube in the frame as well. The Nanospeed 3000 is a separate Japan-market model; each of these has its own page.
Two years on the export list
The 300 was an export model: Yonex’s international site listed it, and Yonex China’s racquet list also named it. It was last on the international list in June 2011, shortly before Yonex replaced the list with a link to its 2011 digital catalog; that catalog’s Nanospeed page shows the 850, 500, 100 and 80, but not the 300. With no production end stated, 2011 is the last year it is documented on sale new. No verified sales are recorded yet.
A question of identity
No counterfeit of the Nanospeed 300 is documented. The practical risk is a mix-up of numbers: the Japan-market Nanospeed 3000, and the 200 and 100 that shared its graphite frame. Shop descriptions that call it head-light are retail copy, since Yonex gave no balance for this model.
The medium end of the starter Nanospeeds
The 300 joined the budget, Taiwan-made tier that Yonex’s export Nanospeed list ran beside the Japan-made fullerene models: three graphite-frame racquets with nanotube in the shaft, of which the 300 was the medium-flex top. For a collector it is a documented export model with two listed designs and no player connection.
Yonex listed the Nanospeed 300 as Medium flex, 3U (85.0–89.9 g) with grips G3, G4 or G5, made in Taiwan, with a graphite frame and a graphite and carbon-nanotube shaft. Its listed technologies were Isometric, the Aro-Box Vari Frame, the Shockless Grommet and the built-in T-joint. The 2010 design is Silver; Yonex printed no color for the 2009 one. Yonex gave no balance or string-tension range. A frame marked with another weight class or another country does not match Yonex’s listing, and a 3000 marking means the Japan-market Nanospeed 3000.
Read the number carefully: the Nanospeed 300 and the Japan-market 3000 differ by one digit, and the 300’s two designs differ only in paint. Check the head, the T-joint and the grommets for cracks and wear, as with any frame of this age. Yonex documents no player or edition of the 300 and no color for its first design, so treat a tour connection or a rare-color claim in a listing as unproven.