Voltric 3
Model VT-3
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Voltric 3: the entry-level export Voltric of 2012–2013 that Yonex Japan never listed
The bottom of the 2012 Voltric list
The Voltric 3 was the lowest-numbered racquet on Yonex’s international Voltric list when that list was first archived, in October 2012: eight models, from the Z-Force down through the 80, 70, 60, 9, 7 and 5 to the 3. Yonex described it in a single line, “TRI-VOLTAGE SYSTEM for speedy racquet handling,” and made it in Taiwan for markets outside Japan. Its name also went on one of Yonex’s 2012 limited editions. In June 2012 Yonex put “special cosmetics” on three Voltrics, the Z-Force, 9 and 3, and the resulting Voltric 3 LTD has its own page. In Japan, Yonex sold a different racquet with a similar name, the Japan-made Voltric 30.
Tri-Voltage in a 3U graphite frame
Yonex’s product page gives the full specification: item VT3, medium flex, a graphite and tungsten frame, an H.T. Graphite shaft, 3U (85–89.9 g) in grips 3, 4 and 5, red, made in Taiwan. The series text on the same page states the idea every Voltric shared: for the first time, Yonex said, its Tri-Voltage System combined “heavy smashes and speedy racquet handling.” The page names no other technology and gives no balance. Yonex’s earliest record of the model is the limited-edition announcement of June 26, 2012, which names the 3 among the Voltrics given special cosmetics, and a US retailer already had it on sale by early June. Beside it, the Voltric 5 was also medium, 3U and Taiwan-made, while the Voltric 9 above them was a stiff frame with high-modulus graphite and Sound Filter.
No player on record
No player is documented with the Voltric 3 in Yonex’s pages or reports, and its product page has no ambassador list. Yonex’s June 2012 announcement said top players would use the limited line from that summer, but the players its reports name with that line used the Z-Force LTD, which has its own page.
Red on Yonex’s page, and a limited white
Yonex’s own page, archived from November 2012, shows the Voltric 3 in red, and a US retailer’s 2013 listing is red too. The same retailer’s mid-2012 listing shows a yellow frame that no Yonex page documents. The one Yonex-named variant is the 2012 Voltric 3 LTD, which Yonex’s list photo shows as a white frame with gold and purple trim, the same look as the Voltric 9 LTD. Two other racquets are easily confused with it. The Voltric LD3 of 2016 belongs to Lin Dan’s Rio-year line, and no Yonex source ties it to the VT3 frame. Japan’s Voltric 30 (VT30), announced by Yonex Japan in November 2012, is a 5U, Japan-made frame. Each has its own page.
A regular-production export model
The Voltric 3 was a regular-production racquet, not a limited one. Yonex’s international Voltric list carried it from its first capture in October 2012 to December 31, 2013. By January 15, 2014 the 4U Voltric 2 had taken its slot, and the 9 Neo and 50 Neo had arrived higher up. Yonex USA’s own site still listed the Voltric 3 in 2015, on a list that also still showed the original Z-Force. No Yonex launch price is documented. Because searches for “Voltric 3” also catch the Voltric 30 and the LD3, a listing should show the VT3 code or the 3U label before it is treated as this racquet. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Fakes and look-alikes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 3 is documented, and the practical risk is identity. A white frame with gold and purple trim is a 2012 limited edition, the 3 LTD or the stiff 9 LTD. A 5U frame marked Made in Japan is the Voltric 30, a 4U black/red frame is the Voltric 2 that replaced it, and a gold frame marked LD3 is Lin Dan’s 2016 model. The Voltric 5 shares the 3U class, the medium flex and the Taiwan factory, so read the model number on the frame.
Where the export Voltrics began
The Voltric 3 marks the bottom of Yonex’s export Voltric range in its first archived listing: a 3U, medium-flex Taiwan frame that carried the Tri-Voltage idea of the Japan-made top models down to club level. Its slot passed to the 4U Voltric 2 in 2014 and to the Voltric 1 and 0 in 2015. For a collector it is the plain counterpart of the 3 LTD and a period piece of the early Voltric years.
Yonex’s item code is VT3. Yonex lists medium flex, a graphite and tungsten frame, an H.T. Graphite shaft, 3U (85–89.9 g) in grips 3, 4 and 5, and Made in Taiwan, and shows the racquet in red; it documents no 4U or 5U Voltric 3. A 5U frame coded VT30 and marked Made in Japan is the Japan-market Voltric 30. A white frame with gold and purple trim is a 2012 limited edition, the 3 LTD or the stiff 9 LTD, so read the number. A 4U black/red frame is the Voltric 2. Yonex’s own checks apply: a laser-engraved code on the cone and a hologram sticker that resists lifting.
Look for the VT3 code, the 3U label and the Made in Taiwan mark. Red is the only color Yonex showed, so treat a yellow frame as a retail-documented finish and check its labels closely. No player is documented with the Voltric 3, so treat any such claim as unproven. Ask for photographs of the frame print, the cone and the grip label, and check a played frame for cracks at the head and T-joint and for worn grommets.