Voltric 9 Neo
Model VT-9NEO
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Voltric 9 Neo: the red 2014 Voltric that added a 4U and a Power Boost Cap to the 9
One season on Yonex’s list
Between December 31, 2013 and January 15, 2014, one update to Yonex’s international Voltric list replaced the Gloss Blue Voltric 9 with a red racquet under a new item code, VT9NEO. Yonex’s one-line description named the change: “POWER BOOST CAP amplifies its power. Solid feel for advanced players.” The Voltric 9 Neo kept the 9’s stiff flex, its frame and shaft materials and its Taiwan origin, and added a 4U weight class to the 9’s single 3U. It was sold outside Japan, and it lasted one season: Yonex’s list shows it from January 15 to December 31, 2014, and the list of January 30, 2015 no longer does.
A new cap on the 9’s specification
Yonex published no release for the 9 Neo. It is first documented on Yonex’s international Voltric list of January 15, 2014, in the refresh that also brought in the Z-Force II, the 50 Neo and the Voltric 2, and Yonex Taiwan’s Z-Force II site listed it on January 30. Yonex’s page gives stiff flex, a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft, 4U (average 83 g) and 3U (average 88 g) with grips G4 or G5, red, made in Taiwan. Its technology list is the Tri-Voltage System, Sound Filter, Isometric, the built-in T-joint and the Power Boost Cap, which Yonex says “combines hard and soft materials to maximize the shaft’s bending power without losing stability.” The flex, frame, shaft and factory lines repeat the Voltric 9’s; Yonex does not say whether the frame itself changed.
No player on record
No Yonex source names a player on the 9 Neo. Yonex aimed it, as it had the 9, at “advanced players,” and its product page related it to the Voltric 60, the i-Force and the 50 Neo rather than to any tour frame. Lin Dan’s name reached the number only in 2016, on the Voltric LD9, a separate racquet.
One red frame among four 9s
Yonex listed one color for item VT9NEO: red. Three other racquets carry the number under their own item codes, and each has its own page: the Gloss Blue Voltric 9 of 2012–2013 (VT9, 3U only), the White/Gold 9 LTD of Yonex’s 2012 limited line (VT9LTD, 3U), and Lin Dan’s Premium Gold Voltric LD9 of 2016 (VTLD9, 5U and 4U), whose Yonex spec rows repeat the 9’s frame and shaft lines. The orange Voltric 50 Neo (VT50NEO), from the same January 2014 refresh, shares the Power Boost Cap and the 4U and 3U classes but adds Yonex’s Tri-Bumper; it has its own page. Yonex reused the Neo name in 2017 for the Voltric 7 Neo, a different racquet.
An export model of a single season
The 9 Neo was a regular-production racquet for markets outside Japan. Yonex’s international site, Yonex UK and Yonex Taiwan listed it, while Yonex Japan’s racquet list of the period carried neither Neo. Yonex’s international Voltric list shows it throughout 2014. The list of January 30, 2015 drops it, along with the Voltric 2, 60, 70, 80 and 80 Peter Gade, and adds the Voltric Force, 1 and 0 and the 80 E-tune, so 2014 is the last year it is documented on sale new; Yonex published no production end. The 50 Neo stayed on the list until early 2016, and no later Voltric carried the number until the LD9. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 9 Neo is documented. The practical risk is identity. Yonex listed the 2012 original only in Gloss Blue and only in 3U, as it did the 9 LTD in 3U, so a red Voltric 9 is a Neo and a 4U Voltric 9 can only be a Neo or an LD9. A US shop’s 2014 listing gave the 9 Neo as head-heavy, but Yonex published no balance for it, so a balance figure in a listing is the seller’s, not Yonex’s. The medium-flex Voltric 7 and 5 of the same list share the family look and the Taiwan origin.
The red step between the 9 and the LD9
The 9 Neo belongs to the January 2014 refresh of Yonex’s export Voltrics, when one list update put the Power Boost Cap on two Taiwan-made frames, the 9 Neo and the 50 Neo; Yonex kept the cap on the 50 E-tune of 2016. For a collector it is the middle step of a small family: the stiff Voltric 9 specification of 2012, in red, with a new cap and a 4U option, listed for one season and documented with no player. Its interest rests on that place in the line and on a clear VT9NEO label.
Read the item code and the weight label first: VT9NEO, red, 4U (average 83 g) or 3U (average 88 g), grip G4 or G5. Yonex lists stiff flex, a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft, a Power Boost Cap, and Made in Taiwan. A Gloss Blue VT9 in 3U is the 2012 Voltric 9; a White/Gold VT9LTD is the 9 LTD; a gold Lin Dan VTLD9 is the 2016 LD9; an orange VT50NEO is the 50 Neo. Yonex’s own checks: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved rather than printed, and the hologram sticker resists peeling.
Settle the identity before anything else: VT9NEO in 4U or 3U is the Neo, while VT9, VT9LTD and VTLD9 are three other racquets that share the number. This stiff frame was sold for advanced club play, so look over the head, the T-joint and the cap above the handle for cracks or play, and check the grommets. Yonex documents no player and only the red color, so treat a tour link or another color as unproven without a Yonex source.