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Career timelines, side by side
Every racquet used by the seven players in our database, plotted across the years they used them. Each bar's color is the series. When a player used multiple racquets concurrently — Lin Dan in 2017, for instance — the bars stack into sub-rows. The Olympic and World Championship years are where careers cross.
7 players
54 racquet years
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1999–2013
1998–2012
2001–2020
2003–2019
2013–2026
2012–2026
2014–2024
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Best on a wider screen. Below: each player as a section, racquets in chronological order. Tap any racquet to open its page.
🇮🇩 Taufik Hidayat
1999–2013
2003–2004
Listed as his racquet on Yonex Japan’s staff pages of July 2003 and April 2004; Yonex’s 2013 retrospective files his Athens 2004 gold under the Armortec 700
2004–2006
Athens 2004 gold, 2005 world title and 2006 Asian Games gold, per Yonex’s 2013 retrospective
2007–2008
2007 Asia Championships title · 2007 Japan Open final against Lee Chong Wei’s 900 Power
2008–2010
2009 India Open title, per Yonex’s retrospective · credited with it at his 2009 US Open win
2009–2010
Switched at the 2009 Yonex Open Japan, per Yonex Japan
2010
Yonex’s July 2010 player model · 2010 French Open, his first Super Series title, per Yonex’s reports
2013
Launch face in February 2013, his final season before retiring in June
2013
Dove Gray limited edition launched at the May 2013 Sudirman Cup, for his final season
2015
Legend Vision tribute edition
🇩🇰 Peter Gade
1998–2012
2003–2004
Yonex Japan’s staff page lists him on it from mid-2003 to April 2004
2004–2006
Yonex Japan’s staff page lists him on the MP-80, its probable Japan-market counterpart, from June 2004
2008–2010
Primary racquet; precision-first playing style
2010–2011
Signature edition in white and champagne gold
2011–2012
From the May 2011 India Open, per Yonex Japan
2012
On Yonex’s player page from March 2012, his final season
2012
An all-white Voltric 80 for his farewell win over Lin Dan, Copenhagen, December 2012; Yonex sold the edition from 2013
2016
Legend Vision tribute edition
🇨🇳 Lin Dan
2001–2020
2004–2005
Yonex Japan’s staff page lists him on it from June 2004 to June 2005; the pages lagged, so no title is tied to it
2006–2009
2007 world title · 2008 Beijing Olympic gold
2008
Numbered Beijing commemorative · no documented match use
2015–2016
Return to Yonex in Jan 2015 after six Li-Ning years · 2016 All England, his sixth
2015
First Lin Dan Exclusive colorway · 2015 Japan Open
2015–2016
Exclusive II red · linked to his sixth All England, 2016
2015–2016
Exclusive II white · no documented match use
2016–2019
Launch colorway of the LD Force, on sale before Rio 2016
2017
Legend Vision tribute edition
2017–2019
2017 colorway of his LD Force
2019
Yonex’s 2019 design, approved by him; Yonex said he would debut it at the April 2019 Asian Championships
🇲🇾 Lee Chong Wei
2003–2019
2005–2006
Yonex Japan’s 2005 staff page lists him on the MP-80, its probable Japan-market counterpart
2006
Yonex-listed racquet at the 2006 Yonex Open Japan, months after he first reached world No. 1
2007–2010
Five Yonex-reported titles in 2007–08, incl. the Japan Open final against Taufik’s 900 Technique
2010–2011
Yonex’s July 2010 player model · 2010 Commonwealth gold, Hong Kong Open and Super Series Finals titles, per Yonex Japan’s reports
2011–2012
From the March 2011 All England, which Yonex Japan says he won with it · India and Indonesia Open titles · 2011 World Championship final
2012
Named in Yonex’s reports from the May 2012 Thomas Cup · 2012 Japan Open and Denmark Open titles
2012–2014
Korea and Malaysia Open titles before its March 2012 launch · 2013 World Championship final
2014–2015
Early ZF2 adoption
2014–2015
Dark pink signature edition for the 2014 World Championships
2015–2018
2015 Worlds final · 2017 All England · last title, 2018 Malaysia Open
2016–2017
2016 Malaysia Open, Asia Championships, Indonesia Open and Japan Open
2017
Legend Vision tribute edition
2019
Never used competitively — tribute after cancer retirement
🇩🇰 Viktor Axelsen
2013–2026
2011
Signed by Yonex at 17 to play it, April 2011 · retained his European junior title with it
2014–2016
2016 European Championships · 2016 Superseries Finals, the first European man to win it
2017–2019
2017 World Championship title · 2017 Superseries Finals · 2019 India Open
2018
2018 European title · 2018 Indonesia Open final, lost to Momota’s 88 D
2020–2025
2021 Tokyo Olympic Gold · 2024 Paris Olympic Gold
2025–2026
First signature racquet; presented at 2025 All England
🇪🇸 Carolina Marin
2012–2026
2014–2017
2014 and 2015 world titles and 2015 All England, per Yonex · Rio 2016 gold falls within these years
2017–2018
2018 world title, her third · 2017 and 2018 European titles
2019–2023
2019 China Open on her return from a knee injury · 2021 Swiss Open and both Bangkok titles, per Yonex Japan
2023–2024
2023 World Championships silver · 2024 All England title
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How to read this
Columns are players. Ordered left-to-right by their earliest tracked racquet year. Reading down a column traces that player's career like a resume.
Bars are racquets. Height = years used. Color = series. Hover or click for the era, achievement, and link to the full racquet page.
Sub-tracks handle overlap. When a player used multiple racquets simultaneously, bars split into parallel lanes inside that player's column. Lin Dan in 2017 (5+ Voltric variants) is the densest cluster.
Read rows horizontally. A horizontal slice across a year shows who was using what — the 2008 row catches Lin Dan's Beijing-era arsenal next to LCW's Armortec phase.