Voltric 80 Peter Gade
Model VT-80PG · Peter Gade
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Voltric 80 Peter Gade: the all-white frame of his farewell win over Lin Dan
A racquet for the last match
Peter Gade said goodbye at the Copenhagen Masters on December 27, 2012, and beat Lin Dan 20–22, 21–16, 21–14 in a farewell exhibition. Yonex said he played it with “a specially created all-white VOLTRIC 80 complete with his motto: go with all your heart.” That racquet became the Voltric 80 Peter Gade, item code VT80PG, which Yonex unveiled seven weeks later in Crystal White with Gade’s name, signature and motto printed on the frame. Copenhagen was not a tour event. Gade’s last competitive match had come two months earlier, a French Open quarter-final he lost to his compatriot Jan Ø. Jørgensen. The Masters was an invitational, and Lin Dan accepted Gade’s request to be his final opponent.
Unveiled after the farewell
Yonex released the details of the “VOLTRIC 80 Peter Gade Limited Edition” on February 15, 2013, on its Legendary Players microsite. The announcement retold the Copenhagen win, credited the Voltric 80’s Nanopreme material with what Yonex called the thinnest and most flexible shaft in its history, and closed with “Peter retires with all our hearts.” It gave no sale date and no quantity. Yonex USA’s Voltric list did not yet carry the edition on February 15 and did by mid-March 2013, under the item code VT80PG and the description “Peter Gade Limited Edition model.” No Yonex Japan release, catalog page or price notice for the edition is documented; Yonex USA’s is the only Yonex listing on record. The frame’s technology and Lee Chong Wei’s 2011 season on it belong to the standard Voltric 80 and are told on that racquet’s page.
Gade’s last Yonex racquets
Yonex Japan dates Gade’s move to the Voltric 80 to the India Open of May 2011, where he lost the final to Lee Chong Wei. In March 2012 Yonex said he had switched to the Voltric Z-Force and quoted him calling it “a special racquet,” yet its Thomas Cup coverage two months later tags him both ways: the previews name him on the Z-Force (VTZF), while the reports of Denmark’s ties on May 20 and 22 and of the quarter-final name the Voltric 80 (VT80). Yonex’s later Legendary Players retrospective calls the Voltric 80 “the final YONEX racquet Peter used,” and in his interview there Gade says it let him hit more powerful shots “with its head-heavy balance yet it still remains easy and comfortable to use.” The frame he took into Copenhagen was a Voltric 80. No title belongs to the edition, which reached shops after his career had ended.
Crystal White on a Voltric 80
Yonex lists one finish, Crystal White, with Gade’s name, his signature and the motto he played by printed on the frame. Underneath, it is the Voltric 80: Yonex gives the same stiff flex, a frame of high-modulus graphite with Sound Filter and tungsten, and a high-modulus graphite and Nanopreme shaft, made in Japan. It came in two weights, 4U (average 83 g, grips 4–5) and 3U (average 88 g, grips 3–5). The standard Voltric 80 is White/Cosmic Gold, so an all-white frame printed with Gade’s name is the edition, and the Voltric 80 E-tune with its clip-on tuning parts is a different racquet. The edition is one of at least three Yonex frames carrying Gade’s name, with the ArcSaber 10 Peter Gade of 2010 and the Legend Vision ArcSaber 10 that followed his retirement.
On sale from 2013 to 2014
Yonex published no quantity and no production end. Its USA Voltric list carried the edition from mid-March 2013 through at least December 1, 2014. By January 30, 2015 the same list showed a Voltric 80 E-tune in place of both the standard Voltric 80 and the Gade edition, so 2014 is the last year the edition is documented on sale new. No launch price is documented. Its interest for collectors is as the frame of Gade’s farewell, which makes identification the main question. The verified sales shown above are a new and a pre-owned frame from Asia resale.
Look-alikes with weaker papers
No counterfeit specific to this edition is documented. The confusion comes from other “limited” Voltric 80s. A red-and-white “Voltric 80 LTD” was on sale by January 2012, billed by a US shop as a 2011 World Championship edition and by a Taiwanese shop as a Yonex Open Japan 30th-anniversary racquet. No Yonex record of it is documented. Yonex Japan marked the 30th Open Japan in 2011 with a purchase prize draw whose prizes included players’ Voltric 70 and 80 racquets, not with a commemorative frame. The red racquet appeared a year before Gade’s farewell and has no link to him; the Voltric 80 page covers it.
The farewell frame
Of the three Yonex frames carrying Gade’s name, this is the one tied to a single match and the only one built on the Voltric 80, the racquet Yonex’s retrospective calls his last. The ArcSaber 10 Peter Gade belongs to his playing years and the Legend Vision ArcSaber 10 to Yonex’s tributes after his retirement; both have their own pages. The edition left Yonex USA’s list together with the standard Voltric 80 at the turn of 2015, when the E-tune carried the Voltric 80 name forward.
Yonex’s item code is VT80PG, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan. The finish is all white, Yonex’s Crystal White, with Peter Gade’s name, his signature and the motto “go with all your heart” printed on the frame. Yonex rates it Stiff and gives averages of 83 g for the 4U and 88 g for the 3U, so weigh it unstrung and question a frame well away from either. White with gold is the standard Voltric 80, and Deep Red with clip-on tuning parts is the Voltric 80 E-tune. The ArcSaber 10 Peter Gade is a different, white and champagne-gold frame from 2010. Yonex’s own checks apply: laser-engraved production codes on the cone, a hologram sticker that resists peeling and a butt cap in Yonex’s green.
This is the Gade frame tied to one day, his farewell win over Lin Dan. Buy it on identity first, with clear photographs of the printed name, signature and motto, the Made in Japan marking and the cone code, and check a stiff frame of this age for cracks at the head and T-joint. Treat any claim that a particular frame is the one he played in Copenhagen as unproven without documentation, and don’t mistake the red-and-white Voltric 80 LTD of 2011–12 for a Gade piece.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.