Ti-6
Model TI-6 · Hafiz Hashim
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Ti-6 Titanium Mesh: the racquet Yonex listed for 2003 All England champion Hafiz Hashim
A champion on the staff page
Malaysia’s Hafiz Hashim won the All England men’s singles title in Birmingham on 16 February 2003, beating China’s Chen Hong 17–14, 15–10 in the final. By 28 June 2003, about four months later, Yonex Japan’s advisory-staff page listed him with a TI-6 racquet and BG65P strings, with the All England win at the end of his results. The entry was still there on 20 April 2004; the reorganized player page of June 2004 no longer includes him. A staff page records the racquet a player was listed with, not what he used in a given match, and no Yonex report or press account of the tournament names the racquet he played in Birmingham. The Ti 6 carries his name in Yonex’s records, but the 2003 title cannot be credited to it.
One of four titanium mesh models, 1999
The Ti-6 reached export markets first. Yonex’s 1999 Asian catalog presented its Titanium Mesh series as “available in four different models,” the Ti-10, Ti-8, Ti-6 and Ti-5, all tagged new. It listed the Ti-6 Titanium Mesh Composite as medium stiff, with a high-modulus graphite frame with titanium mesh and a graphite shaft, in 3U (85–89 g) and 2U (90–94 g), grips 2 to 5, with 14–16 lb mains and 16–18 lb crosses for the 3U and 2 lb more for the 2U. The 2000 catalog repeated it without the new tag, marked titanium mesh, isometric head, built-in T-joint, aero, long and light, and left off the Muscle Power Frame it marked on the Ti-7 and Ti-10. Yonex said the mesh exploited titanium’s strength and hardness “to counter twisting forces and to balance the mass.”
Yonex Japan’s version
Yonex Japan carried the Ti6 Titanium Mesh by November 2000 on its “2000 New Technology” page. It described a racquet with the same basic structure as its siblings, titanium mesh in the middle of the frame, giving good face stability and little vibration, and aimed it at average players with light handling and a supple shaft. Yonex Japan listed a high-modulus carbon frame with titanium mesh and an all-carbon shaft, 3U only in grips 4 and 5, 10 mm longer than standard, in white and black, at ¥19,000 before tax with a full racquet case. It recommended BG65Ti strings for hard hitters and BG68Ti for control players. “Supple” is Yonex Japan’s copy for the feel, not a flex rating; the export catalogs rate the frame medium stiff.
White, gray, then orange
Yonex Japan repainted the Ti 6 twice under the same item number, TI-6. The export catalog photos of 1999 and 2000 show a white frame with a dark head top and lower shaft. Yonex Japan’s page of April 2001 flagged a new color, gray and black (244), and raised the stringing advice to 15–18 lb mains and 17–20 lb crosses; Yonex later filed that design with its 2003 old models. By April 2004 the page showed another new color, orange (005), still 3U and ¥19,000 before tax, now with a built-in T-joint in the materials line, a 15–20 lb range, Cyber Natural 100 suggested for control players and a made in Japan line. Yonex Japan’s old-model record for the orange version gives grips 4 to 6. Yonex documents no limited or player edition.
The least expensive titanium model
On Yonex Japan’s 2000 new-technology page the Ti 6 was the least expensive titanium mesh racquet: ¥19,000 against ¥21,000 for the Ti 7, ¥22,000 for the Ti8 and ¥24,000 for the Ti10 and Ti10R. It stayed in the lineup while the flagships left. Yonex Japan’s titanium line was the Ti 10 in two lengths, Ti 8, Ti 7, Ti 6 and Ti 4 in April 2001, and the Ti 7, Ti 6, Ti 4, Ti 2 and Ti 1 in June 2004. Yonex lists the Ti 6 among the models whose production ended in 2005, with the Ti 4, the Ti 2 and the second Ti 7 design. No verified sales are recorded yet. Its interest for collectors is the Hafiz Hashim listing and its place in Yonex’s titanium years; the finish dates a frame to its version.
Sibling mix-ups
No counterfeit Ti 6 is documented. The likelier confusion is with its titanium mesh siblings. The Ti-5 of the 1999 export catalog looks similar but is rated stiff, came in 2U only and had a plain graphite frame with titanium mesh. The Ti 7 and Ti10 add the Muscle Power Frame, and the Ti8 is rated extra stiff. A frame sold only as a Yonex “Ti” could be any of them, so the printed model number decides it.
Outlasting the flagships
The Ti 6 ran from the 1999 export catalog to Yonex Japan’s 2005 production end, three years after the long Ti10 and four after the Ti8 and Ti10R. Yonex names no successor for it. The titanium mesh line carried on without it: the Ti 7 until 2007, the Ti 3 until 2009 and the Ti Zero into Yonex Japan’s 2010 and 2011 production-end groups. Within that family the Ti 6 was the medium-stiff, entry-priced model, and the only one Yonex Japan’s staff pages tied to an All England singles champion.
Read the shaft for “Ti6 TITANIUM MESH”; Yonex’s 2000 export catalog photo shows a LONG mark below it, and the item number is TI-6. Yonex documents a high-modulus graphite frame with titanium mesh and a graphite (all-carbon) shaft, rated medium stiff in its export catalogs. Export frames came in 3U (85–89 g) or 2U (90–94 g); Yonex Japan sold 3U only. Match the finish to a version: white with a dark head top (1999–2000), gray and black (color 244, from 2001) or orange (color 005, by 2004 to 2005). Yonex Japan gives it as 10 mm longer than standard and, for the orange version, made in Japan. Yonex printed no balance. A raised Muscle Power Frame means a Ti 7 or Ti10, not a Ti 6. Hafiz Hashim’s staff-page listing is not provenance for any frame. Check the head, joint and grommets for cracks.
The Ti 6 is a modest titanium mesh racquet with one notable line in Yonex’s records. Buy it on the printed name, the finish and the weight class, and treat the Hafiz Hashim listing as context rather than a reason to pay more for a particular frame. Expect frames that have been strung and played for years, and ask for close photos of the head and joint.