Voltric 50
Model VT-50
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Voltric 50: Yonex’s “bumper-using” Voltric of 2013, first of three racquets named 50
One year on the list, and the first of three 50s
Yonex described the Voltric 50 in one line: “A heavier, bumper-using racquet for increased stiffness and power.” Item VT50 appeared on Yonex’s international Voltric list in early 2013, below the Japan-made Voltric 60 and above the Taiwan-made Voltric 9. It was still listed on December 31, 2013; by January 15, 2014 the orange Voltric 50 Neo had taken its place, and in 2016 the number passed to a third racquet, the Voltric 50 E-tune. Each has its own item code and its own page. The 50 was the only one in Pearl Red/White.
Tri-Bumper on a graphite frame
The Voltric 50 is not on Yonex’s international Voltric list of January 29, 2013 and is on the list of February 15, 2013, and Yonex’s site had a product page for it by February 13, so 2013 is its first documented year; no Yonex launch release or date for it is documented. Yonex lists a frame of graphite, Tri-Bumper, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft, stiff flex, and 4U (80–84.9 g) or 3U (85–89.9 g) with grips G4 or G5, made in Taiwan. Yonex later defined the Tri-Bumper, on the 50 Neo’s page, as “the first bumper from YONEX that improves the stiffness of the frame and amplifies its power.” The Voltric 9 listed below it is also stiff and names Sound Filter and tungsten, but on a high-modulus graphite frame, without the bumper, and in 3U only.
No documented player
No Yonex product page, tournament report or news item names a player on the Voltric 50. Yonex’s one-line description speaks of stiffness and power, not of any player, and none of the three Voltric 50s has a documented professional user.
Pearl Red/White, then the 50 Neo and 50 E-tune
Yonex listed one color for item VT50, Pearl Red/White, and no limited or player edition of it is documented. Its successor, the Voltric 50 Neo (VT50NEO, orange), kept the Tri-Bumper and stiff flex but lists a high-modulus graphite frame and adds a Power Boost Cap. The Voltric 50 E-tune (VT50ETN, Dark Gun) followed in 2016 with the E-tune system and no Tri-Bumper in its spec line. The Voltric 55 (item VT55) in Yonex UK’s 2015 brochure is a separate, Japan-made model under its own code; it has its own page.
Sold outside Japan, for one season
The Voltric 50 was a regular-production racquet for markets outside Japan; it is not on Yonex Japan’s racquet list of July 2013. Yonex’s international list shows it from February to December 2013, so 2013 is also the last year it is documented on sale new. Yonex USA’s own site, slow to remove old models, still showed a Voltric 50 in September 2015, after the Neo had replaced it. No Yonex price for it is documented. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 50 is documented. The practical risk is identity. Three Yonex racquets carry the number, the 50 (VT50, Pearl Red/White), the 50 Neo (VT50NEO, orange) and the 50 E-tune (VT50ETN, Dark Gun), and all three are stiff and offered in 4U and 3U, so a listing that says only “Voltric 50” needs the item code or a clear photo of the finish. The stiff Voltric 9 (VT9, Gloss Blue, 3U only) sat beside it on Yonex’s 2013 list.
The start of a three-model line
The Voltric 50 opened a run of stiff, Taiwan-made Voltric 50s that Yonex kept on its international list from 2013 to early 2018. It had the shortest stay of the three on Yonex’s list, under a year, and it is the only one whose frame Yonex listed as graphite rather than high-modulus graphite. For a collector it is the reference for the family: the Pearl Red/White frame with the Tri-Bumper and no Power Boost Cap.
Yonex’s item code is VT50. Yonex’s page gives stiff flex, 4U (80–84.9 g) or 3U (85–89.9 g) with grip G4 or G5, made in Taiwan, a frame of graphite, Tri-Bumper, Sound Filter and tungsten, and a high-modulus graphite shaft, in the color Yonex calls Pearl Red/White. An orange frame coded VT50NEO, with a Power Boost Cap, is the 2014 Voltric 50 Neo; a Dark Gun frame coded VT50ETN is the 2016 Voltric 50 E-tune. A Gloss Blue frame coded VT9, 3U only, is the Voltric 9. 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 code VT50 and the Pearl Red/White finish: the 50 Neo and 50 E-tune share the number, the stiff flex and the 4U and 3U classes. Most surviving frames have had club use, so check the head and the T-joint of this stiff frame for cracks, and look at the grommets and the butt cap. Yonex documents no player and no other color for the plain 50, so treat any tour connection or rare-color claim as unproven without a Yonex source.