Nanospeed 5000
Model NS-5000
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Nanospeed 5000: the Japan-made export Nanospeed that lasted one catalog year
New in 2007, gone by early 2008
The Nanospeed 5000 (item code NS5000) appears in Yonex’s 2007 export catalog tagged NEW, in Silver/Orange, as the lowest-numbered model of the Nanospeed line. Yonex’s international (export) Nanospeed list showed it from its earliest record in October 2007 until mid-February 2008. The list of 23 February 2008 had replaced it with the Nanospeed 4500, and Yonex’s 2008 export catalog no longer prints it. The frame was made in Japan, yet Yonex Japan’s charts and old-model records do not list it.
Plain graphite, fullerene shaft
Yonex rated the 5000 Medium and gave its frame as plain Graphite, where the 7000, 8000 and 9000 had H.M. Graphite; the shaft was H.M. Graphite with Fullerene, the nano material behind the series, which Yonex’s catalog said made racquets “thinner, stronger and more stable.” It came in 3U (85.0–89.9 g), in grip G4 in the catalog and G3–G5 on Yonex’s list, with a frame 10 mm longer than standard. Yonex’s list showed three technology badges for it, Nanoscience, Isometric and Built-in T-Joint, without the LSC System of the 6000. Yonex recommended 17–22 lb.
No player on record
No Yonex staff page, tournament report or release names a player with the Nanospeed 5000. Yonex’s 2007 racquet chart, which plots feel on impact against playing style, places it toward soft feel and receive-based control play, near the 7700 and 6000 and far from the 9000 Type X in the hard-hitting corner.
Silver/Orange, then a Blue successor
Silver/Orange is the only design Yonex documents. In the list update of 23 February 2008 the Nanospeed 4500 took its place: Yonex printed the same flex, frame and shaft materials, weight class and technology badges for both, in Blue, but never said the 4500 was the 5000 renamed, and the 4500 has its own page. The Taiwan-made Nanospeed 800 and 500 arrived in the same update. Japan’s later Nanospeed 5500 is a different model; it has its own page.
A short export run
Its documented run, from the 2007 catalog to February 2008, is far shorter than the 2005–2011 run of the Nanospeed 6000 or the 2006–2012 run of the 7700, which left the export list in the same update but stayed on sale in Japan. Neither the export catalog nor Yonex’s list printed a price, and no Yonex Japan list price exists for it. Listings name it Nanospeed 5000, NS5000 or NS-5000; the item code is the surest way to separate it from the 4500 and the later Nanospeeds with similar numbers. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups, not copies
No counterfeit of the Nanospeed 5000 is documented. The likelier mistakes are mix-ups: the Blue 4500 shares its printed spec, the Taiwan-made 500 and 800 have carbon-nanotube shafts, the Flexible 6000 carries LSC, and the 5500 belongs to Yonex Japan’s later lineup.
The slot the 4500 kept
The Medium, graphite-framed, Japan-made place the 5000 held on the export list outlived it: the 4500 kept it there until June 2011, and was also on Yonex Japan’s list until late 2010. The 5000 is the earlier and far briefer of the two.
Check the item code: NS5000, not NS4500, NS500 or NS5500. Yonex documents it as made in Japan, 3U (85.0–89.9 g) only, rated Medium, in Silver/Orange; a Blue frame with the same spec is the 4500, and a Taiwan marking points to the 800 or 500. Yonex lists a graphite frame and a high-modulus graphite shaft with fullerene, and the badges Nanoscience, Isometric and Built-in T-Joint; a frame claiming LSC, titanium or carbon nanotube is another Nanospeed. Grips were G3–G5 on Yonex’s list (G4 in the catalog).
The 5000 suits a collector building the first fullerene generation, or one following how Yonex reshuffled its export Nanospeeds in early 2008. Look for a clear NS5000 code, a Japan marking, a 3U label and the Silver/Orange design. As with any frame of this age, check the head and the shaft joint for cracks and the grommets for wear before stringing, and stay within Yonex’s 17–22 lb.