Voltric 5
Model VT-5
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Voltric 5: the 3U, Taiwan-made Voltric a reviewer could barely tell from the 7
The plainer twin of the Voltric 7
When coach Paul Stewart reviewed the Voltric 5 in May 2011, a month after he had reviewed the Voltric 7, he wrote that the differences between the two were so minor he would “be hard pressed to tell them apart if the string tension was identical,” and he came away preferring the less expensive 5. Yonex sold the pair side by side from 2011, on its international list until early 2017 and on Yonex UK’s into 2018, with the 7 listed above the 5. On paper the 5 was the plainer of the two: a graphite frame where the 7 used high-modulus graphite, and the heavier 3U weight class where the 7 was 4U. Yonex made it in Taiwan for its markets outside Japan and never put it on Yonex Japan’s racquet lists.
Tri-Voltage in a graphite frame
The Voltric line opened in 2010 with the Japan-made Voltric 70, the first racquet with Yonex’s Tri-Voltage System. The Taiwan-made 5 and 7 followed in early 2011: US retailers listed the 5 in yellow by January, and Yonex’s 2011 catalog placed it beside the Voltric 80, 70 and 7. Stewart wrote that it was introduced at the 2011 All England. Yonex described it as a “standard model for mid-range players using TRI-VOLTAGE SYSTEM for good racquet handling and power,” and said of the series that Tri-Voltage combined heavy smashes with speedy racquet handling. Yonex lists four technologies for the 5, the same four as the 7: the Tri-Voltage System, Isometric, the built-in T-joint and the Control Support Cap. The frame is graphite and tungsten, the shaft graphite, the flex medium, and the racquet 10 mm longer than standard. It came only in 3U (average 88 g), and Yonex recommends 19–24 lb.
No documented professional user
Yonex’s tournament reports and staff pages name no player on the Voltric 5, and no player or limited edition of it appears in Yonex’s lists. It was a club racquet. Stewart recommended it to players who wanted a racquet that would “pack a punch” yet stay quick in defense and around the net, and found it head-heavy, though less so than the high-end Voltrics.
Yellow, blue, orange, and no 5 DG
The Voltric 5 kept one item code, VT5, and one specification throughout its run; only the paint changed. Yonex listed it in yellow in 2011, in blue on its US site from 2012, and in orange or white and lime in its 2015 UK brochure. Searches for a “Voltric 5 DG” find no such racquet in Yonex’s lists. The four DG Voltrics were the 1 DG, 7 DG, 10 DG and 20 DG, and Yonex later gave the DG name to the Voltric 0.1DG and several DG Slim frames, none of them a 5. The nearest name is the Voltric 5FX, which took the 5’s place on Yonex’s international list in early 2017 and which Yonex UK listed beside the 5: item VT5FX, Hi-Flex, 4U, white and lime or white and red, with a high-modulus graphite shaft and Light Feel Carbon Neo in the frame. It is a different racquet; it has its own page. Below the 5, the lowest rung of Yonex’s international Voltric list held the Taiwan-made Voltric 3 in 2012–2013 and the Voltric 2 in 2014, both of which have their own pages; the Voltric 1 and 0 took those places in 2015.
A regular-production club racquet
The Voltric 5 had a US launch price of $130 and was a regular-production racquet, sold for years in several colors. Yonex USA still listed it in 2016 and Yonex’s international list into February 2017, when the 5FX took its place; Yonex UK’s Voltric list carried it in March 2018, its last documented Yonex listing, and had dropped it by April. No verified sales are recorded yet. Because the 5 and 7 look alike and a later 5FX shares the number, a listing should show the VT5 code or the 3U label before it is treated as this racquet.
Fakes and mix-ups
No counterfeit specific to the Voltric 5 has been documented, and the Voltric fakes described in detail copy the tour-famous Z-Force. The practical risk is identity. The Voltric 7 shares the family look, the medium flex and the Taiwan origin, and Stewart found the two hard to tell apart in play, so the weight class and the frame material on the label are what separate them. The Japan-made Voltric 70 and 80 are higher-tier frames with different construction, and the 5FX is a flexible 4U frame sold under a similar name.
A mid-range Voltric with a long run
The Voltric 5 belongs to the early Voltric years, when Yonex carried the Tri-Voltage System from its Japan-made top models down to lower-priced Taiwan frames for export markets. It outlasted the original Voltric 70 and 80 it was launched beside, and in its last Yonex listing it sat next to the 5FX that shared its number but not its build. For a collector it is a period club racquet that fills the mid-range slot of the 2011–2017 Voltric line-up, and the companion piece to the Voltric 7.
Yonex’s item code is VT5. Every Yonex listing gives medium flex, 3U (85–89.9 g, average 88 g) and made in Taiwan, with a graphite and tungsten frame and a graphite shaft; Yonex listed no 4U Voltric 5. Colors on Yonex’s pages are yellow (2011), blue (2012) and orange or white and lime (2015). A 4U frame coded VT5FX, in white and lime or white and red, is the 2017 Voltric 5FX, and a 4U frame coded VT7 with a high-modulus graphite frame is the Voltric 7. Yonex’s own checks: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved rather than printed, the hologram sticker resists peeling, and the YONEX logo is printed cleanly.
Look for the VT5 code and the 3U label, since the name also covers the 5FX and sellers easily confuse the 5 with the 7. Most surviving frames have had club use, so check the head and the T-joint for cracks and look at the grommets and the butt cap. Expect only the regular colors Yonex listed; no player or limited edition of the Voltric 5 is known, so treat any such claim as unproven without a Yonex source.