Nanospeed 9900 Limited (London 2011)
Model NS-9900LT
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Nanospeed 9900 Limited: Yonex’s green and purple frames for the 2011 London Worlds
A Nanospeed for Wembley
On June 24, 2011, Yonex Japan announced commemorative goods for the Yonex BWF World Championships, held at Wembley Arena in London from August 8 to 14 that year. Among them was a limited Nanospeed 9900, item NS9900LT, in green or purple, with the championship’s name, “YONEX BWF World Championships LONDON 2011,” worked into the frame design. Yonex’s release set the event against the following summer: with the ranking race for the Olympics under way, it said it was proud to stage its World Championships at a Wembley that “leads to the Olympics.” The London of the racquet’s name is therefore the 2011 Worlds, a year before the London Olympics, not the Games themselves.
The standard 9900, dressed for the event
Yonex’s release recalled that Wembley Arena had staged the All England from its 47th to its 83rd edition, when the hall and the tournament were almost synonymous. For the racquet it listed the materials of the standard Nanospeed 9900: high-modulus carbon with X-Fullerene in the frame, high-modulus carbon with Fullerene in the shaft and the new built-in T-joint. The limited model was due in late July 2011 at the standard model’s list price, announced in 3U with grip 5 only and supplied with a soft case. The Nanospeed 9900 itself, launched in February 2009 as the line’s flagship, has its own page; the limited edition changed the colors and the frame graphics, not the materials Yonex listed.
No player of record
No player is documented with the limited frames. The same release planned player colors for its Wembley apparel, naming Lee Chong Wei, Taufik Hidayat, Peter Gade and the Danish pair Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen, but it named no one with the racquet. Yonex’s 2012 page for the standard 9900 listed Cheng Shao-chieh among its ambassadors and noted her silver medal at those London championships; it does not say which frame or color she played there. The men’s singles title at Wembley went to Lin Dan, who had played with Li-Ning since China’s team left Yonex in 2009.
Two colors under one code
Green and purple share the item code NS9900LT, and Yonex Japan’s release names the colors only as green (グリーン) and purple (パープル). Export dealers sold them as Limited Edition Green and Limited Edition Purple, listed in 3U with grip 4 and as made in Japan, and a US dealer had both by October 2011. The standard 9900 appears on Yonex Japan’s product pages, and on Yonex’s global page in 2012, only in Metal Orange. The racquet was one piece of a Wembley range: the same release launched two limited shoes, the SHB85LTD and the SHB-102, along with player-model apparel and event T-shirts. The later Nanospeed 9900 reissues carry the standard model’s code and are covered on its page.
A short run with no count
Yonex gave no production quantity. The late-July date was a planned release, and the day the frames reached Japanese shops is not documented. Nothing documents when the limited run ended either: the latest evidence of it on sale new is a US dealer’s page of June 2012, while Yonex Japan lists the standard Nanospeed 9900 among its 2013 production ends. Its interest for collectors lies in the event and the colors, a dated souvenir of a Yonex-sponsored World Championships in a model Yonex otherwise listed only in Metal Orange during its original run. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Telling it from a recolor
The event name is the decisive detail. A green or purple Nanospeed 9900 without “YONEX BWF World Championships LONDON 2011” on the frame is not shown to be this edition, and the reissues that followed years later are separate releases under the standard code. No counterfeit of the limited edition itself is documented; the standard 9900’s page covers the fakes and dating traps of the model in general.
A one-off for one championship
Unlike the later reissues, the limited model has its own item code and a dated Yonex release, which makes it one of the easier Nanospeed 9900 variants to identify. It had no successor. It was made for a single championship, and within two years Yonex Japan had ended production of the Nanospeed 9900 itself.
Yonex’s item code is NS9900LT. The frame is green or purple and carries the event name “YONEX BWF World Championships LONDON 2011” in its design; a green or purple 9900 without it is unconfirmed. Yonex Japan announced it in 3U with grip 5 only, while export dealers listed 3U with grip 4. Dealers list it as made in Japan, as Yonex documents for the standard 9900, but Yonex’s release does not state the edition’s origin. Yonex’s own checks apply: the production codes are laser-engraved, not printed, and a genuine hologram sticker resists peeling.
This is one of the few Nanospeed 9900 variants with its own Yonex release behind it, which makes it easier to identify than the later reissues. Confirm the event name on the frame and the 3U marking from clear photos, and treat a green or purple frame without the event name as unconfirmed. Yonex published no production figure, so any claim about how many were made is unsupported.