Ti-10
Model TI-10
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Ti10 Titanium Mesh: the 1999 muscle-frame racquet Yonex marketed with Peter Gade
A ridge between the grommets
The Ti10 Titanium Mesh, often written Ti-10, is the red Yonex racquet of 1999 built around a raised ridge between its grommets. Yonex called the structure the Muscle Power Frame, marked it patent pending, and used it on the Ti10 a year before the Muscle Power 100 took the name. It paired the ridge with titanium mesh set into both sides of the frame. Yonex advertised the new racquet in the May 1999 issue of Japan’s Badminton Magazine with the line “used by world No. 1 P. G. Christensen,” meaning Peter Gade, whose full name is Peter Gade Christensen. Looking back for the 25th anniversary of its isometric head, Yonex singled out the ridge and the mesh and said the model sold explosively overseas.
Spring 1999: frame, mesh and length
The Ti10 appeared on Yonex Japan’s badminton pages between early February and late April 1999, listed as a new racquet at ¥24,000 before tax with a full racquet case. The frame was ultra-high-modulus carbon with titanium mesh, the shaft ultra-high-modulus carbon, and the racquet 10 mm longer than standard. Yonex said the ridge spread the load of high string tensions, raised frame strength by 10% and let the whole frame support the strings. It credited the mesh with steadying the face and, through titanium’s density, adding weight to the head for smashes, and it rated the racquet best for advanced men. The mesh itself came a year earlier, on the 1998 Ti8. Yonex’s corporate history names the Muscle Power 100 as the first racquet with the Muscle Power Frame, but its own 2000 product page says the frame had previously run from the top to the sides and was now extended to the joint.
Endorsers, and what they won
Yonex’s “top pro impressions” page said Gade, Kim Dong-moon of Korea and the Indonesians Candra Wijaya and Rexy Mainaky had begun using the Ti10 one after another. Gade found speed and power clearly up on his earlier racquets, Kim found it very light, and Mainaky said it suited doubles despite its length. Beside each quote Yonex printed a title: Gade’s 1999 All England and Japan Open singles, Kim’s 1999 Japan Open doubles with Ha Tae-kwon, Wijaya’s 1999 All England doubles with Tony Gunawan, and Mainaky’s 1996 Olympic gold. Those are titles, not proof of use. Gade’s All England final, won 15–11, 7–15, 15–10 over Taufik Hidayat in mid-March, fell inside the weeks in which the Ti10 first appeared on Yonex Japan’s site, and no photo or match report shows which racquet he used. Fan-compiled equipment lists record the Ti10 only as limited use for him in 1999.
Ti10, Ti10R and later namesakes
The original is red, color 001, item number TI-10, and 674 mm long. By 2000 Yonex Japan also sold the Ti10R, item TI-10R, in the same red and at the same price but at the regular 664 mm length, with a soft case; Yonex pitched it for quick, attacking receives. The Ti10R has its own page. The Ti10R went onto Yonex Japan’s old-model list in its 2001 group and the Ti10 in its 2002 group, where it had appeared by April 2003. Later racquets were also sold as the Ti-10: a black-and-gold “Long SP” that owners call the second generation, a purple frame reviewed in 2009 as the third, and a black Limited Edition dated 2011. These are documented by retailer listings and player blogs, not by a Yonex source, and they are different racquets from the 1999 original.
What the sales show
The verified sales shown above are pre-owned frames from Asia resale. Two things complicate any reading of them. Listings often say only “Ti-10,” a name shared with the later black-and-gold, purple and 2011 frames, so photos matter more than titles. And Yonex made two lengths of the original; a listing rarely says whether a red frame is the 674 mm Ti10 or the 664 mm Ti10R. Yonex published no production figures for either.
Mix-ups before fakes
No counterfeit of the 1999 Ti10 has been documented, and the fake-spotting guides that circulated in the mid-2000s dealt with newer Yonex models. The practical risk is mistaken identity. Besides the later Ti-10 namesakes and the shorter Ti10R, the Muscle Power 100 that followed in 2000 was also red, carried the same 001 color code, had a muscle frame and was 10 mm long. A red frame with a ridge between the grommets is therefore not necessarily a Ti10; the printed model name settles it.
Handing over to Muscle Power
The Ti10 was Yonex’s headline racquet for only about a year. Yonex’s timeline moves from it straight to the Muscle Power 100 of 2000, which extended the muscle frame to the joint and added what Yonex called the world’s first Ultimum titanium shaft, at ¥25,000. By then Yonex listed Wijaya, a Ti10 endorser a year earlier, and his partner Tony Gunawan as Muscle Power 100 users. Titanium mesh stayed in the range: Yonex Japan’s 2006 Titanium models still set it into the frame sides for face stability, though the Ti10 was gone from the lineup. The next landmark on Yonex’s timeline is the Armortec 700 of 2003.
Confirm the model first. The 1999 original is Yonex’s red (color 001), shown in Yonex’s photographs as a mostly black frame with red and silver sections, printed Ti10 Titanium Mesh, item number TI-10, and 10 mm longer than standard at 674 mm overall; the regular-length Ti10R (TI-10R) is 664 mm in the same red. Yonex offered two weights: 3U, listed at 85–89 g (the launch ad printed 85–88 g), and 2U at 90–94 g. The frame in Yonex’s launch ad shows MUSCLE POWER FRAME lettering and a raised ridge between the grommets. Yonex’s 1999 catalog shows a mesh-pattern panel with a gold Ti emblem at 3 and 9 o’clock on the head. Black-and-gold, purple or black frames are later namesakes, and a red Muscle Power 100 shares the color code, so read the name on the frame. Yonex Japan’s pages give no made-in line for the Ti10; treat any marking as one detail to check, not as proof.
The Ti10 belongs in a Yonex collection as the racquet that carried the muscle frame before the Muscle Power 100, and as a marker of the company’s titanium years. Buy on checkable details: the red finish, the TI-10 or TI-10R item number, the length and the printed name. Treat any claim that Peter Gade won the 1999 All England with a particular frame as marketing, not provenance. Frames of this age have usually been strung and played for years, so ask for close photos of the head and the joint.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.