Ti-1
Model TI-1
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Ti-1 Titanium Mesh: the ¥12,000 entry racquet of Yonex Japan’s titanium line
The cheapest titanium mesh
Yonex Japan’s racket index of 6 August 2002 listed the Ti 10, Ti 7, Ti 6, Ti 4 and Ti 2. The index of 2 October 2002 added the Ti 1 Titanium Mesh (item code TI-1), and its product page carried a NEW tag and a list price of ¥12,000 before tax, frame with a full racquet case. That was the lowest price in the Titanium Mesh line. Yonex’s two selling points were titanium mesh on the frame side for control and a supple shaft for an ideal flight for beginners, which puts this at the beginner end of a line whose flagship was the Ti 10.
Mesh, a supple shaft and 3U
Yonex lists an all-carbon frame with titanium mesh and an all-carbon shaft; the pages from 2004 on add a built-in T-joint. The size is 3U with grip 5 on the 2002 page and grips 5 and 6 on later ones, and the recommended tension is 15–20 lb on the 2006 page. Yonex recommends the BG65TI string for hard hitters and, for control players, the BG88TI on the early pages and the BG75TI on those of 2006–07. Its pages print “Made in Japan” from 2004 on. They give no balance point and no flex grade, only the word supple.
No named player
Yonex Japan’s product and old-model pages name no user of the Ti 1, and the model is pitched at beginners. The player associations of this line belong to the Ti 10 and the Ti 6.
Colors, in order
The 2002 page shows blue-purple (117) and orange (005). A later page shows red (001) and blue (002), and the pages of 2006–07 show silver/orange (368) and silver/blue (335). The last design, yellow/red and navy/sax blue, is the one Yonex Japan files in its 2008 production-end group. Each design has Yonex’s color code, so a frame’s code places it in one of these periods. The Ti 2 and Ti 3 are separate models (TI-2 and TI-3L), not colors of the Ti 1.
Six years in the Japanese lineup
The Ti 1 was a Japan-market model. Its product page ran from October 2002 to at least April 2007, and Yonex Japan’s titanium list of June 2004 reads Ti 7, Ti 6, Ti 4, Ti 2 and Ti 1; by June 2006 it was Ti 7, Ti 3 and Ti 1. Yonex Japan lists the last design as ending production in 2008, after the Ti 2 (2005) and the Ti 7 (2007) and one year before the Ti 3 (2009). No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups, not fakes
No counterfeit of the Ti 1 is documented. The usual confusion is with its neighbors: the Ti 2 is also 3U but lists grips 4 and 5 and a higher price, and the Ti 3 is the long-shaft model. Yonex’s item code TI-1 and the color code are the checks, and TI-2 or TI-3L on the frame means a different racquet. Yonex’s export catalogs carried their own Ti-numbered racquets, such as the Ti-3 and Ti-5, which are not this model.
The starting rung
The Ti 1 shows how Yonex Japan carried the Titanium Mesh idea down to a beginner racquet at ¥12,000, and it stayed in the range through four sets of colors. Yonex documents no balance or flex grade for it.
Yonex Japan’s product page gives: item code TI-1; all-carbon frame with titanium mesh and all-carbon shaft; 3U, grip 5 (later pages 5 and 6); Made in Japan. Color codes by period: blue-purple 117 and orange 005; red 001 and blue 002; silver/orange 368 and silver/blue 335; and a last yellow/red and navy/sax blue design. The built-in T-joint appears on pages from 2004 on, so its absence from a 2002 description is not a flag. A different item code (TI-2, TI-3L, TI-4) or a 2U weight class means another racquet. No counterfeit is documented.
Look for the TI-1 item code and a color that matches one of Yonex’s listed designs; the yellow/red and navy/sax blue design is the last of the model. Yonex documents no balance or flex grade, so judge it on grip size and condition, and inspect the mesh and shaft joint of what is now a two-decade-old graphite frame.