Voltric 8 E-Tune
Model VT-8ETN · B. Sai Praneeth
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Voltric 8 E-tune: the last E-tune on Yonex’s list, and Sai Praneeth’s 2019 racquet
The E-tune that stayed
The Voltric 8 E-tune was one of two racquets Yonex added to its E-tune family in 2016, and the one that stayed longest. Yonex’s international Voltric list showed it from early 2016 beside the Voltric 50 E-tune, and when the 50, 70 and 80 E-tunes left that list in March 2018, the yellow 8 remained; it was still listed in July 2020. Yonex described it in one line, as an “all-round model equipped with the E-tune system.” In 2019 it was also the racquet Yonex’s reports listed for India’s B. Sai Praneeth at the Japan Open and the World Championships, where he reached the semi-finals of both.
A Taiwan-made all-rounder
Yonex’s international Voltric list of February 4, 2016 did not include it. Its product page was online by February 14, and the list of March 5 showed it with four other new names: the Voltric 0F, 1TR, 50 E-tune and Lite. No Yonex launch release for it is known, so 2016 is its first documented year. Yonex listed a high-modulus graphite and tungsten frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft and medium flex, in one weight, 4U (average 83 g), with a frame 10 mm longer than standard. Its technology list names the Tri-Voltage System, E-tune, Isometric, a new grommet pattern, the Aero+Box frame, a built-in T-joint and a Control Support Cap. Yonex China, which sold it as VT8ETNEX, gave Taiwan as its origin and filed it as an entry-level (入门级) smash racquet.
Sai Praneeth’s 2019 Voltric
One player is documented with it. At the 2019 Japan Open in July, B. Sai Praneeth of India beat Tommy Sugiarto 21–12, 21–15 to reach the semi-finals, and Yonex’s equipment list gave him the Voltric 8 E-tune with Aerobite strings and Power Cushion 65 Z shoes. Yonex’s World Championships report in August listed the same racquet after he beat Indonesia’s fourth seed, Jonatan Christie, 24–22, 21–14 for a semi-final against Kento Momota, a result that assured him a medal. He had won the 2017 Singapore Open on the Voltric 80 E-tune, which has its own page. Yonex’s lists name models, not individual frames, so they show only that his listed model changed between 2017 and 2019.
One yellow finish and three E-tune siblings
Yonex sold the 8 E-tune in one color, yellow, in 4U only: grips 3 to 5 on Yonex’s international page, grip 4 on Yonex UK’s, grips 4 and 5 in China. No player or limited edition of it is documented. Its siblings differ in build. The 70 E-tune (2014) and 80 E-tune (2015) were made in Japan, with Nanometric in the frame and a 3U option; the 50 E-tune, listed beside the 8 from 2016, was rated stiff and also made in Taiwan. The yellow Voltric 8 LD of 2015, from Lin Dan’s first Exclusive line, is also 4U and Taiwan-made but rated stiff, and Yonex never links the two. Each of these has its own page. The Voltric 8 DG Slim, on Yonex China’s site from April 2019, is a different racquet; it has its own page.
Four years on Yonex’s list
Yonex’s international Voltric list carried the 8 E-tune from early 2016 to mid-2020. It sat beside the 50, 70 and 80 E-tunes until March 2018, when the list of March 31 dropped those three for the new DG models and kept the 8. It was last listed in July 2020; the rebuilt yonex.com that followed that September listed only the newer DG Slims, the Glanz, the Lite and the Z-Force II, so 2020 is its last documented year rather than a stated production end. Yonex UK listed it from April 2016 in its E-tune series and in its 2016 brochure, and Yonex China’s page placed it at the entry level of its range. No Yonex Japan or Yonex USA listing for it is documented. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Counterfeits and mix-ups
No counterfeit of the Voltric 8 E-tune is documented, so Yonex’s general checks apply. The practical risk is confusion with the Voltric 8 LD: both are yellow, 4U, Taiwan-made Voltrics with an 8 in the name, but the LD is a Lin Dan edition coded VT8LD and rated stiff, while Yonex rated the E-tune medium. Listings that say only “Voltric 8” need the code or a clear photo of the model name on the frame. Yonex documents only Taiwan manufacture for this model; the Japan-made E-tunes are the Deep Red 80 and the white 70.
The end of the E-tune line
E-tune began on the Japan-made Voltric 70 E-tune in 2014 as parts that fit the top or bottom of the frame to change its power, and the 80 E-tune carried it on in 2015. In 2016 Yonex took the name to two Taiwan-made models, the stiff 50 E-tune and this medium-flex all-rounder. Yonex’s pages for the 8 do not say which tuning parts came with it. After the other three left Yonex’s international list in March 2018, it was the only E-tune there until the 2020 rebuild of yonex.com.
Yonex’s item code is VT8ETN (Yonex China: VT8ETNEX). Yonex listed it in yellow only, 4U (average 83 g) in grips 3 to 5, medium flex, with a high-modulus graphite and tungsten frame and a high-modulus graphite shaft, 10 mm longer than standard; Yonex China gives Taiwan as its origin. Yonex recommends 19–26 lb. A yellow Voltric 8 coded VT8LD and rated stiff is the 2015 Lin Dan edition, not this racquet; a Deep Red or white E-tune is the 80 or the 70. Yonex’s general checks: a hologram sticker that resists peeling and a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle.
The longest-listed of Yonex’s E-tunes and the racquet Yonex’s reports gave Sai Praneeth for his 2019 Japan Open and World Championships semi-finals, though Yonex built it as an all-round model, not a flagship. Confirm the VT8ETN code or the model name on the frame, since the yellow Voltric 8 LD looks similar, and ask what tuning parts, if any, come with it. Check the head and throat for cracks, and treat any claim that a frame was a named player’s match racquet as unproven without documentation.