Voltric 70
Model VT-70 · Carsten Mogensen, Miyuki Maeda
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Voltric 70: the first Voltric, Maeda’s racquet for Japan’s first Super Series title
Two titles in its first month
Yonex Japan’s page for the Voltric 70 went up at the end of September 2010, and a month later the new racquet won twice at the Denmark Open. Miyuki Maeda, on the VT70, and Satoko Suetsuna, on a Carbonex 23 (it has its own page), won the women’s doubles 21–17, 21–14 over Shizuka Matsuo and Mami Naito, which Yonex Japan called the first Super Series title by Japanese players in any event since the series began in 2007. In the men’s doubles Carsten Mogensen, on the VT70, and Mathias Boe, on an Armortec 900 Power, beat Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan 21–13, 21–12 in front of their home crowd. The Danes won the French Open the following week and, in January 2011, their first Super Series Finals title, 21–17, 21–15 over Jung Jae-sung and Lee Yong-dae, with Mogensen still on the VT70.
The first Voltric
The Voltric 70 opened the series: Yonex Japan’s racquet list of August 2010 had no Voltric, and the Voltric 80 followed in March 2011. Yonex Japan’s tagline was a Tri-Voltage System that paired a head-weighted power smash with quick handling, and its English copy said Voltric combined power and fast handling for the first time. The system, which later Voltrics shared, enlarges the frame’s cross-section at 10 and 2 o’clock and around the joint, slims the frame sides and uses tungsten to set the balance. Yonex lists a high-modulus graphite frame with a Sound Filter and tungsten, a shaft with Ultra PE fiber, and a new built-in T-joint. It was made in Japan in Brilliant White, 4U and 3U, at ¥20,000 before tax (¥21,000 with Japan’s 5% tax), and reached US retailers in October 2010. Yonex rated it medium flex, and its Japanese charts put the balance on the head-heavy side, less so than the Voltric 80. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb in 4U and 20–25 lb in 3U.
Mogensen, Maeda and the Japanese pairs
Mogensen kept it through the 2011 season. Yonex Japan’s report on the March 2011 All England, where he and Boe won the men’s doubles, quoted him on the VT70: besides power and handling, its control was the best too. Yonex lists him on it again in November 2011 at the China Open, which the pair won, and said in March 2012 that he had moved to the Voltric Z-Force. The VT70 also carried a run of Japanese firsts. At the May 2011 India Open Hirokatsu Hashimoto (VT70) and Noriyasu Hirata became the first Japanese men’s pair to win a Super Series title, and Maeda and Suetsuna beat their teammates Mizuki Fujii, also on the VT70, and Reika Kakiiwa in the women’s final, the first time Japanese players had won two events at one Super Series. Maeda and Hashimoto were still listed on the VT70 at the March 2013 All England.
One white frame, then the E-tune
Yonex sold the Voltric 70 in one color, Brilliant White. Above it came the stiffer Voltric 80 in March 2011, with a Nanopreme shaft the 70 lacked, and the Z-Force in 2012; the cheaper, Flexible Voltric 60 sat below from August 2011; it has its own page. When Yonex issued limited Voltric designs in 2012, they were for the Z-Force, 9 and 3, and no player edition of the 70 has been found. In September 2014 Yonex replaced it with the Voltric 70 E-tune, which Yonex’s global page set against the “previous model” and credited with 3% more power from new linked grommets. The E-tune added Nanometric to the frame, new linked grommets with a material Yonex calls T-Anchor, and clip-on parts for the top and bottom of the frame, with up to seven set-ups using optional parts. UK coach Paul Stewart, who had played both, found it a completely different feel and spec rather than the original with extras, and slower at the net than he remembered the original. The E-tune has its own page.
Gone from Yonex’s lists in 2015
The plain Voltric 70 was on sale for about four years. Yonex Japan listed it until at least February 2014, but by February 2015 its Voltric list showed only the 70 and 80 E-tunes, and Yonex’s global product page went offline between early January and early February 2015; Yonex Japan’s old product page lingered until spring. The E-tune stayed on Yonex’s global site until 2018. Verified sales of the base model are few so far, all pre-owned and from Asia resale, so the value in the price panel above is an estimate; the Voltric 70 E-tune is valued on its own page. The two are easy to mix up in listings, since many say only “Voltric 70,” and the E-tune is also white. Its tuning parts, the E-tune logo after “VOLTRIC 70” on the shaft and the code VT70ETN are what tell them apart.
Fakes and mix-ups
No counterfeit specific to the Voltric 70 has been documented. The Voltric fake described in most detail is the Z-Force, copied within a year of its 2012 launch, and the Voltric 70 sold in the same years, so Yonex’s general checks apply. Yonex’s counterfeit guidance of the time named four: a hologram sticker that resists peeling, a YONEX logo whose O is not wide and round, a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle, and Yonex’s own shade of green on the butt cap. Mix-ups are the bigger risk: the E-tune shares the name and the white, and the Voltric 7 and 5 share the family look but were made in Taiwan.
A head-heavy all-rounder
The Badminton Research blog, which reviewed a 3U in September 2010 and a 4U in November 2011, measured the balance at more than 290 mm, rated the flex a touch below stiff and put it in the same balance class as the Armortec 900 Technique, with a swing sound like the ArcSaber 10 and Z-Slash. It judged the 3U suitable for singles and doubles and the 4U mainly for doubles, and for a 4U frame it advised a doubles player to choose the Voltric 80 instead. Yonex treated the 70 as one of its showcase frames: for the 30th Yonex Open Japan in 2011 it offered racquets used by entrants as prizes, and the models named were the VT70, the VT80 and the ArcSaber Z-Slash. The line it started ran on through the Voltric 80, the Z-Force and the Z-Force II.
Yonex’s item code is VT70, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan. Yonex sold it only in Brilliant White, rated medium flex. Yonex’s global page listed 4U (80–84.9 g) with grip 4 or 5 and 3U (85–89.9 g) with grip 3, 4 or 5; Yonex Japan sold 4U in grips 4 and 5 and 3U in grip 5. Yonex lists a Sound Filter and tungsten in the frame and Ultra PE fiber in the shaft, and Yonex Japan’s page marks it 10 mm longer than a standard racquet. A white Voltric 70 with clip-on parts, an E-tune logo on the shaft or the code VT70ETN is the 2014 E-tune. Yonex’s checks: a laser-engraved cap code, a hologram that resists peeling and a butt cap in Yonex’s green.
The racquet that started the Voltric line, with a documented tour record from Mogensen’s 2010–11 titles and Japan’s first Super Series wins. Confirm it is the 2010 original and not the 2014 E-tune before comparing anything, and ask for photographs of the Made in Japan marking, the weight class and the cone code. Frames from 2010 to 2014 have usually been played hard, so check the head and T-joint for cracks. Treat any claim that a frame belonged to a named player as unproven without documentation.
Verified prices last updated Jul 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.