Nanospeed 7700
Model NS-7700
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Nanospeed 7700: Yonex’s comfort Nanospeed, with shock and vibration dampers
Two dampers on a Nanospeed
The Nanospeed 7700 (item code NS7700) was the comfort model of Yonex’s fullerene line. Yonex Japan called it the newest Nanospeed when it appeared in 2006 and gave it two ways to spare the arm: LSC, an elastomer shock absorber inside the lower frame, and a new Vibration Filter Cap at the butt. Yonex rated it Medium, between the Flexible 6000 and the Stiff 7000, and Japan kept making it, in a second design, until 2012.
Low Shock for Comfort
Yonex Japan’s page for the 7700 carried a NEW tag when it was first recorded, in October 2006; no launch date is documented, so 2006 is its earliest documented year. It cost ¥22,000 before tax (¥23,100 with tax) with a soft case, between the 7000 at ¥21,000 and the 8000 at ¥23,000 and below the 9000 at ¥25,000. The frame was high-modulus carbon with elastomer, the shaft high-modulus carbon with fullerene, joined by a built-in T-joint. A Yonex Japan feature page explained the two systems: LSC puts shock-absorbing elastomer inside the lower frame, the path impact shock takes, to ease the load on the elbow, and the foam elastomer in the cap damps shaft vibration for a slightly soft, enveloping feel. Yonex’s 2007 catalog said LSC cut impact shock by 15% against a conventional racquet.
Pitched at comfort, not a champion
No Yonex tournament report, advisory-staff page or release names a player with the Nanospeed 7700. Yonex Japan sold it as a body-friendly, high-performance comfort model, and its later page summed it up as low shock and vibration with a clear feel. The Nanospeeds that Yonex tied to named players in these years were the stiffer 7000, 8000 and 9000.
Gold, then black and white
Two designs carried the NS7700 code. The launch design was Gold/Shell White (color 559), offered in 3U and 2U; Yonex Japan files it among the models whose production ended in 2008, with the Nanospeed 9000 Type X and Type S. A Black/White design (color 245) followed at the same price, in 3U only; Yonex Japan’s page showed it by March 2010, and its old-model list files that design under 2012, with the Nanospeed 8000. Yonex recommended 19–24 lb for the 3U frame and 20–25 lb for the 2U. The 7700 is a separate model from the Stiff Nanospeed 7000, not a version of it.
A short run abroad
Outside Japan the 7700 had a brief life on Yonex’s English-language Nanospeed list: absent in November 2006, listed in May 2007 and in February 2008, and gone by March 2008, while the 6000, 7000 and 8000 stayed on that list for years. In Japan it stayed in the catalog for six years, in two designs, and Yonex China’s site still named it in early 2009. No verified sales are recorded yet.
What to check
No counterfeit of the Nanospeed 7700 is documented. Its features make a genuine frame easier to place than most of its siblings: on Yonex’s 2007 English chart it is the only Nanospeed listed with a Vibration Filter Cap, and one of two, with the 6000, listed with LSC. Its Medium rating also separates it from the Stiff 7000, the model whose name it most resembles.
The comfort branch of the nano era
With the 6000, the 7700 formed the comfort side of Yonex’s first nano generation, while the 7000, 8000 and 9000 were rated Stiff or Extra Stiff. It outlasted the 9000 types, which ended in 2008, and the 7000, which ended in 2011: Yonex Japan’s 2012 chart still listed the 7700 with the 9900, 8000, 6600, 3000, 2000 and 1000.
Check the item code: NS7700, not NS7000. Yonex documents it as made in Japan and rated Medium. The Gold/Shell White design (color 559) came in 3U (85–89.9 g) and 2U (90–94.9 g); the later Black/White design (color 245) in 3U only, so a Black/White 2U is a warning sign. Yonex lists a high-modulus graphite frame with fullerene and elastomer, a fullerene shaft, LSC in the lower frame and a Vibration Filter Cap at the butt, so check that the cap is there. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb for 3U and 20–25 lb for 2U.
The 7700 suits a collector building the first Nanospeed generation, as the comfort counterpart to the Stiff 7000. The Gold/Shell White frames are the 2006–2008 launch design and the only ones Yonex offered in 2U; the Black/White frames are the later 3U-only design. Confirm the NS7700 code and the Vibration Filter Cap, and inspect the frame, joint and grommets as with any racquet of this age before stringing within Yonex’s range.