Voltric 9
Model VT-9
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Voltric 9: the stiff, Taiwan-made Voltric of 2012–2013, swapped for the 9 Neo
A two-year rung above the Voltric 7
Yonex described the Voltric 9 in one sentence: “TRI-VOLTAGE SYSTEM and SOUND FILTER give a solid feel for advanced players.” Item VT9 was the stiff member of Yonex’s Taiwan-made Voltrics for markets outside Japan, listed between the Japan-made Voltric 60 and the Voltric 7 on Yonex’s international site. It lasted about two years. Between December 31, 2013 and January 15, 2014, one update to Yonex’s Voltric list replaced it with the red Voltric 9 Neo, in the same refresh that brought in the Z-Force II, the 50 Neo and the Voltric 2. Two other racquets carry the number under their own item codes: the White/Gold 9 LTD of 2012 and the Lin Dan Voltric LD9 of 2016.
Sound Filter in a Taiwan frame
The Voltric 9 is not in Yonex’s 2011 catalog, whose Voltrics were the 80, 70, 7 and 5. It was on sale in 2012: coach Paul Stewart’s review says it was launched at the All England in March 2012, a US shop’s page captured in June 2012 sold it as new for 2012, and Yonex’s announcement of June 26, 2012 gives “special cosmetics” to three existing Voltrics, the “Z-FORCE, 9 and 3.” Yonex lists a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft, stiff flex and 3U (85–89.9 g) with grips G3 to G5, made in Taiwan. Of the four Taiwan-made Voltrics on that list, the 9, 7, 5 and 3, only the 9’s frame line names Sound Filter, which Yonex says filters high-pitched and dull sound at the two and ten o’clock positions of the head. The Voltric 7 has a high-modulus graphite frame too, but a graphite shaft and medium flex.
Aimed at advanced players, not the tour
Yonex’s tournament reports and news name no player on the Voltric 9, and none on its limited edition; Yonex aimed it at “advanced players.” Stewart, who had liked the medium-flex Voltric 5 and 7, expected the 9 to be their stiffer version and wrote that he “got that wrong”: it was stiffer than the other budget Voltrics but had a different feel, and he noticed vibration when lifting from defense. Lin Dan’s name reached the number only in 2016, on the Voltric LD9, a separate racquet.
Gloss Blue, a White/Gold LTD, then the 9 Neo
Yonex listed one color for item VT9, which it called Gloss Blue; Stewart described the finish as black, gold and gloss blue. Yonex’s 2012 limited line gave the frame a White/Gold design as the Voltric 9 LTD (item VT9LTD), whose Yonex page repeats the 9’s description and every spec line; it has its own page. The successor, the Voltric 9 Neo (item VT9NEO), took the 9’s place on Yonex’s list in January 2014 with the same frame and shaft materials and stiff flex, in red, in 4U (average 83 g) as well as 3U (average 88 g), and with a Power Boost Cap that Yonex said “amplifies its power”. The 2016 Voltric LD9 (item VTLD9, Premium Gold, stiff, 4U and 5U) is a different racquet that Yonex never presented as a version of the 9.
Two seasons on Yonex’s list
The Voltric 9 was a regular-production racquet for markets outside Japan; Yonex Japan never listed it. Yonex’s international Voltric list carries it from its first archived copy, October 15, 2012, to December 31, 2013, and by January 15, 2014 the 9 Neo had taken its place, so 2013 is the last year it is documented on sale new. Yonex USA’s own site, slow to remove old models, still showed it in September 2015 beside the original Z-Force, which Yonex had also replaced by then. For a collector the 9 is the short-lived stiff rung of the early Taiwan-made Voltrics, and the main care is telling it from the 9 Neo, the 9 LTD and the LD9. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 9 is documented, and the detailed Voltric counterfeit reports concern the tour-famous Z-Force. The practical risk is identity. Four Yonex racquets carry a 9: the original (VT9, Gloss Blue, 3U only), the 9 LTD (VT9LTD, White/Gold, 3U), the 9 Neo (VT9NEO, red, 4U or 3U) and the Lin Dan LD9 (VTLD9, gold, 2016). The medium-flex Voltric 7 and 5 share the family look and the Taiwan origin, and a white-and-gold Voltric marked Made in Taiwan belongs to the 2012 limited line rather than to the Japan-made Z-Force LTD.
The plain original of a small family
The Voltric 9 belongs to the 2012–2013 Voltric line, when Yonex put Sound Filter, a frame technology of its Japan-made Voltric 70 and 80, into a stiff Taiwan-made frame. It lasted two seasons on Yonex’s list, a much shorter run than the 7 and 5 it sat above, and its number passed to the 9 Neo and later to a Lin Dan edition. For a collector it is the reference for that small family: the Gloss Blue, 3U-only frame whose specification the 9 LTD repeats and from which the 9 Neo departs with a new cap and a 4U option.
Yonex’s item code is VT9. Yonex’s pages give stiff flex, 3U (85–89.9 g) with grips G3, G4 or G5, made in Taiwan, a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, and a high-modulus graphite shaft, in the color Yonex calls Gloss Blue (black, gold and blue in a 2012 review). Yonex listed no 4U Voltric 9: a red frame coded VT9NEO, offered in 4U and 3U with a Power Boost Cap, is the 2014 Voltric 9 Neo; a White/Gold frame coded VT9LTD is the 9 LTD; a gold Lin Dan frame coded VTLD9 is the 2016 LD9. A medium-flex frame coded VT7 (4U) or VT5 (3U) is the Voltric 7 or 5. Yonex’s own checks: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved rather than printed, the hologram sticker resists peeling, and the YONEX logo is printed cleanly.
Start with the code and the weight label: VT9 and 3U make the original, while VT9NEO, VT9LTD and VTLD9 are three other racquets that share the number. Most surviving frames have had club use, so check the head and the T-joint of this stiff frame for cracks and look at the grommets and the butt cap. Yonex documents no player and no color other than Gloss Blue for the standard 9, so treat any tour connection or rare-color claim as unproven without a Yonex source.