The new 3rd generation of the popular YONEX ASTROX 88 S and YONEX ASTROX 88 D series was launched at the end of March 2024. The fact that this unique pair of rackets now also has its own colour-coordinated bag series from YONEX speaks for a success story and a perfect marketing strategy. We at the BADLAB racket team naturally wanted to find out whether this is really the case and to what extent the new material changes have contributed to the improvement. As always, we decided to carry out a long-term practical test with the new YONEX ASTROX 88 PRO variants.