Voltric 7
Model VT-7
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Voltric 7: Yonex’s 4U export Voltric of 2011–2018, and the frame behind the Lin Dan 7LD
Four racquets, one name
Four Yonex racquets carry the Voltric 7 name, and this is the first. Item VT7 arrived in early 2011 as a 4U, medium-flex Voltric made in Taiwan for Yonex’s markets outside Japan. In late 2015 Yonex sold the same listed construction in Lin Dan Exclusive II navy and red as the Voltric 7LD. In 2016 the Voltric 7 DG reused the number on a different 3U frame built for high string tensions, and in early 2017 the Voltric 7NEO, another 4U frame with its own shaft, took the original’s place on Yonex’s international list. Only the original and the 7LD share a build. The original stayed on Yonex UK’s list into 2018, sold beside its near-twin, the Voltric 5.
High-modulus graphite at mid-range
The Voltric line opened in 2010 with the Japan-made Voltric 70, the first racquet with Yonex’s Tri-Voltage System. US retailers listed the Voltric 7 in red by January 2011, and Yonex’s 2011 catalog placed it beside the Voltric 80, 70 and 5. Yonex called it an “all round model for well-balanced repulsion and handling.” It lists four technologies for the 7: the Tri-Voltage System, Isometric, the built-in T-joint and the Control Support Cap. The Japan-made 80 and 70 added Sound Filter to the frame and Nanopreme or Ultra PEF to the shaft; the 7 has neither. Its frame is high-modulus graphite and tungsten, its shaft graphite, its flex medium, and it is 10 mm longer than standard. Yonex offered it only in 4U (average 83 g) and recommends 19–24 lb. Against the Voltric 5, the 7’s differences are the high-modulus graphite frame and the lighter weight class; the technologies, flex and stringing advice are the same. In 2012–2013 Yonex listed the Voltric 9 above it, a stiff 3U frame that added Sound Filter and a high-modulus graphite shaft; it has its own page.
Club racquet, no tour record
Yonex’s tournament reports name no player on the standard Voltric 7. Lin Dan’s name reached it only through the 7LD, a racquet of his Exclusive II collection rather than a documented match racquet. Coach Paul Stewart, reviewing the 7 in April 2011, gave it five stars, thought its medium-flex shaft would suit good club and league players, and found the frame noticeably thinner than the Voltric 70’s.
Five colors, then three namesakes
The standard Voltric 7 kept item code VT7 and one specification through its run, while the paint changed: red in Yonex’s 2011 catalog, silver on Yonex USA’s page in 2012, white in 2013, yellow in 2014, and red and white from 2015. The 7LD, on Yonex USA’s Lin Dan Exclusive II page by October 2015, repeats the 7’s description and specification in navy blue or bright red with LD marks; it has its own page. The Voltric 7 DG, on Yonex China’s site by March 2016, is a 3U frame with ULTRA HMG and a high-modulus graphite shaft, and also has its own page. The Voltric 7NEO, on Yonex’s international site from February 2017, is a dark red 4U frame with a high-modulus graphite shaft and what Yonex called a Power Boost Cap for added shaft flex; it has its own page. In March 2018 Yonex UK’s list still showed the 7 beside the 7NEO, the 5FX, the 5 and the 1TR.
Collecting the original
The Voltric 7 was a regular-production club racquet, sold for years in several colors, and Yonex never sold it in Japan. Yonex USA listed it into early 2017, and Yonex’s international list into February 2017, when the 7NEO took its place; Yonex UK’s Voltric list carried it in March 2018 and had dropped it by April, its last documented Yonex listing. No verified sales are recorded yet. Because the name covers four racquets, a listing needs the VT7 code, the 4U label or one of Yonex’s 2011–2015 colors before it is treated as the original.
Fakes and look-alikes
Yonex has published no warning specific to the Voltric 7 and no fake of it has been reported; the detailed Voltric counterfeit reports concern the tour-famous Z-Force. The risk with the 7 is a mix-up. Its namesakes are the obvious ones, and one digit separates it from the Japan-made Voltric 70, a white, higher-tier frame. The Voltric 5 is harder still: it shares the family look, the medium flex and the Taiwan origin, and Stewart found the two hard to tell apart in play.
The original of a family
Of the four Voltrics in Yonex’s 2011 catalog, the 7 and the 5 ran longest: the original 70 and 80 had left Yonex’s lists by 2015, while the 7 stayed on Yonex UK’s list into 2018. Yonex then kept its number in use on three more racquets. For a collector the original is the reference for that family: the plain frame whose specification the Lin Dan 7LD repeats, and the 4U, graphite-shafted Voltric 7 from which the 3U 7 DG and the high-modulus-shafted 7NEO depart.
Yonex’s item code is VT7. Every Yonex listing gives medium flex, 4U (80–84.9 g, average 83 g) and made in Taiwan, with a high-modulus graphite and tungsten frame and a graphite shaft. Yonex’s colors were red (2011), silver (2012), white (2013), yellow (2014) and red and white (2015). A 3U frame coded VT7DG is the Voltric 7 DG; a navy blue or bright red frame with LD marks is the Voltric 7LD; a dark red 4U frame coded VT7NEO is the 7NEO; a 3U frame coded VT5 is the Voltric 5. 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.
Read the code and the weight label first, since four racquets share the name and the plain 7 is easily confused with the Voltric 5 and the Voltric 70. 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. A Lin Dan connection belongs only to the 7LD, and even that is a collection racquet, so treat any claim that a Voltric 7 was a named player’s match racquet as unproven.