Voltric 7NEO
Model VT-7NEO
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Voltric 7NEO: the 2017 Voltric that took the plain 7’s place on Yonex’s list
The Voltric 7 of 2017
The Voltric 7NEO (item VT7NEO) is the dark red, 4U Voltric that took the place of the plain Voltric 7 on Yonex’s international list in early 2017. Yonex described it with one sentence about a part rather than the frame: “The POWER BOOST CAP provides added shaft flex, giving you more power in your shots.” It shared the original 7’s medium flex and 4U weight class but had a high-modulus graphite shaft where the 7 had graphite. Yonex wrote the name as 7NEO; Yonex Poland’s 2017 catalog printed “Voltric 7 NEO”. It stayed on Yonex’s lists for about a year.
A new shaft and a Power Boost Cap
Yonex gives no launch date. Its international site shows the 7NEO’s product page from February 2017, and the site’s Voltric list, which still carried the plain 7 and 5 on February 1, showed the 7NEO and 5FX instead on March 2. Yonex’s pages and its 2017 catalog give medium flex, a high-modulus graphite and tungsten frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft (plain graphite in Yonex Poland’s catalog only), a length 10 mm over standard, and 4U (average 83 g) with grips G4 or G5; Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. Its technologies are the Tri-Voltage System, Isometric, the Aero+Box frame, the built-in T-joint, the Control Support Cap and the Power Boost Cap, which “combines hard and soft materials to maximize the shaft's bending power without losing stability.” The 2014 Voltric 9 Neo and 50 Neo had also added that cap to existing Voltric numbers.
No player on record
Yonex’s pages and catalogs name no player on the 7NEO, and no player or limited edition of it appears in Yonex’s lists. Yonex Poland’s catalog called it a universal model, easy to maneuver, for versatile players. The racquet selector in Yonex’s 2017 catalog shades it for “intermediate to advanced players with developing skills” and places it on the head-heavy side of its Voltric chart, near the middle between soft and solid feel. It was a club racquet.
One design, three other 7s
Yonex listed one design for item VT7NEO, which its international, US and UK pages call Dark Red and Yonex Poland’s catalog calls Red/Black. Three other racquets carry the number. The original Voltric 7 (VT7, 2011) is also a 4U, medium-flex frame, with a graphite shaft and no Power Boost Cap; the Voltric 7LD (VT7LD) is that original in Lin Dan Exclusive II navy or red; and the Voltric 7 DG (VT7DG, 2016) is a 3U frame built for high string tensions. Each has its own page. Its 2017 siblings on Yonex’s list were the flexible Voltric 5FX, the Voltric 1TR and the Voltric 0F.
About a year on Yonex’s lists
The 7NEO was a regular-production racquet for markets outside Japan; no Yonex Japan or Yonex China page for it is known. Yonex USA’s Voltric list showed it, with no plain 7 or 5, by May 2017. Yonex UK listed it by May 2017 beside the 7, the 5FX, the 5 and the 1TR, and still did in March 2018. Both lists then dropped it: Yonex’s international list by the end of March 2018, in the update that brought in the DG Voltrics, and Yonex UK’s by April. With no production end stated, 2018 is the last year it is documented on sale new. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the 7NEO is documented, and the detailed Voltric counterfeit reports concern the tour-level Z-Force. The practical risk is identity. The original Voltric 7 shares the 4U weight class, the medium flex and, in some years, a red or red-and-white finish, so the code decides: VT7NEO for this racquet, VT7 for the original. Yonex documents no made-in country for the 7NEO, so a factory marking on the frame is worth noting; the original 7 is made in Taiwan.
The 2017 bearer of the number
The 7NEO belongs to the 2017 reshuffle of Yonex’s lower Voltrics, when the international list traded the 7 and 5 of 2011 for the 7NEO and 5FX, with the 1TR and 0F below them. It lasted about a year there before the DG Voltrics arrived. For a collector it is the 2017 bearer of the Voltric 7 number: a 4U, medium-flex frame like the original, with a high-modulus graphite shaft and a Power Boost Cap.
Yonex’s item code is VT7NEO. Yonex’s pages give medium flex, 4U (80–84.9 g, average 83 g) with grips G4 or G5, a high-modulus graphite and tungsten frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft and a length 10 mm over standard, in Dark Red (Red/Black in Yonex Poland’s catalog); Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. Yonex listed no 3U 7NEO. A frame coded VT7 is the 2011 Voltric 7; a 3U frame coded VT7DG is the 7 DG; a navy or red frame with LD marks is the 7LD; a 4U Hi-Flex frame coded VT5FX is the 5FX. Yonex’s general counterfeit guide says the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved rather than printed and the hologram sticker resists peeling.
Start with the code and the color: VT7NEO in dark red is this racquet, while VT7, VT7LD and VT7DG are three others that share the number. Most surviving frames will have had club use, so check the head and the T-joint for cracks and look at the grommets and the butt cap. Yonex documents no player or edition of the 7NEO and one design, so treat any tour connection or rare-variant claim as unproven without a Yonex source.