Voltric 7 DG
Model VT-7DG
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Voltric 7 DG: one of the two Voltrics that opened Yonex’s high-tension DG line
The opening pair
Yonex China’s site carried the Voltric 7 DG and the Voltric 10 DG by early March 2016, the first two racquets of Yonex’s DG Voltrics. Both were sold on one number. Yonex’s stringing advice for the 3U frame is 24–35 lb, a recommended range rather than a maximum, and its top sat at the upper end of what Yonex rated any racquet for. Yonex China’s page gave the reason in a single sentence: the frame uses ultra-high-modulus carbon “to meet the demand for higher string tensions”. The 1 DG followed by July 2016 and the 20 DG in 2018, each with its own page; the Voltric 1 DG page follows the line to its end in 2020.
Same number, different Voltric 7
The 7 DG shares its name and its medium flex rating with the Voltric 7 of 2011, but not its build. Yonex lists it as item VT7DG: 3U (average 88 g) where the Voltric 7 was 4U, with a frame of high-modulus graphite, ULTRA HMG and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft and a length 10 mm over standard. Both were made in Taiwan. Its technology list matches the 1 DG’s: the Tri-Voltage System, an Isometric head, the AERO+BOX frame, a built-in T-joint and the Control Support Cap, with no compact head or TRI-iBUMPER grommets, which went to the 10 DG and 20 DG. Yonex China classed it as a smash-type racquet for adults at its step-up (进阶级) level, at a suggested retail price of 470 yuan, between the 1 DG (400) and the 10 DG (550). The Voltric 7 page covers the 2011 original.
A tension debate, not a player
No professional player is documented with the Voltric 7 DG, and Yonex’s pages for it name none. Its launch is documented in retail promotion instead. On May 29, 2016, a BadmintonCentral thread reposted a Malaysian retailer’s images of the 7 DG and 10 DG with the 35 lb figure. The thread’s poll asked, “Is it right for companies to encourage higher tensions?” The thread’s title already expanded DG as “Durable Grade”, the reading retailers and players have used since. No Yonex page spells out DG, and in Yonex item codes the letters can also mark a color: Yonex USA’s DUO7DG is the Duora 7 in Dark Gun.
Lime, purple, and green and black
Yonex China launched the 7 DG in lime (color 281), and Yonex’s Thai site still showed lime in 2017. By 2018 Yonex’s English-language page and its catalog for India showed purple, and Yonex China green and black (530), all under the one item code. The flex label moved too. Yonex China’s 2016 page rated it stiff (硬); Yonex’s Thai page of 2017, its English-language page and India catalog of 2018 and Yonex China’s own 2018 page all say medium. The 2016 Chinese page also printed the weight as “3U (约83克)”, about 83 g, a figure Yonex uses for 4U; its other listings give 3U as an average of 88 g. The 7 DG is unrelated to the Voltric 7LD, a 4U Lin Dan edition of late 2015.
An overseas model
Yonex Japan’s racquet pages never listed a DG Voltric. A Japanese question-and-answer post of March 6, 2017 asked about “Yonex’s overseas model, the Voltric 7DG”, and the accepted answer pointed to Yonex’s Chinese and UK pages and noted that imports were being resold in Japan. Yonex USA listed the 7 DG by June 2018, but its February 2019 catalog printed only the 1 DG and 10 DG among the DG racquets, so no Yonex USA price is documented for the 7 DG. Its web page stayed up until mid-2020, and Yonex’s English-language Voltric list still named it in July 2020, after Yonex China’s list of February 2020 had dropped it. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Copies and look-alikes
No counterfeit specific to the 7 DG is documented. Yonex’s general checks apply: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved, and the hologram sticker resists peeling. The likelier mistake is the name. Yonex lists the original Voltric 7 as 4U, so a 3U frame sold as a “Voltric 7” needs its item code checked before it is taken for either model; Yonex made other 3U Voltrics too, such as the Voltric 5.
The middle of the 2016 trio
The 7 DG sat between the 1 DG and the 10 DG in Yonex China’s 2016 range, shared the 1 DG’s listed construction, and was one of the two frames that introduced Yonex’s high-tension rating. Its three dated colors place a frame in its market and period: lime for China and Thailand in 2016–2017, purple for Yonex’s English-language markets and India from 2018, and green and black for China in 2018. Its interest for a collector is that place at the start of the DG line, which Yonex later continued under the DG Slim name with different, slim-shaft frames.
Yonex’s item code is VT7DG (Yonex China printed VT7DGEX), and Yonex lists it as made in Taiwan. It came in 3U only (average 88 g), grips 4 and 5 (G5 on Yonex’s Thai page), rated medium flex and 10 mm over standard length; Yonex recommends 24–35 lb. Yonex’s colors were lime (2016–2017), purple, and green and black (2018). The Voltric 7 of 2011–2015 is a 4U frame in red, silver, white, yellow or red and white; a navy blue or bright red 4U frame with LD marks is the Voltric 7LD; a dark red 4U frame coded VT7NEO is the Voltric 7NEO; and a Duora 7 coded DUO7DG is a Dark Gun Duora, not a Voltric. Yonex’s own checks: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved, and the hologram sticker resists peeling.
The 7 DG is a player’s racquet: a 3U, medium-flex Voltric with Yonex’s high-tension rating, documented on sale outside Japan from 2016 to 2020. Check the VT7DG code and the 3U label in photographs before taking any “Voltric 7” listing for the 2011 original, confirm the color is one Yonex listed, and look for cracks at the head and T-joint on frames that have been strung tight.