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.

Even before the worldwide start of sales on June 16, 2023, we received the new high-end racket from the BADLAB "racket team": YONEX NANOFLARE 1000 Z for practical testing. We were very curious to see to what extent the announcements from "Fastest Smash ever", "Rapid Fire" to "Flagship of the NANOFLARE Series" will be confirmed in the racket test. As always, we not only got involved in a few hits with the racquets, but also put them through their paces over several weeks.

As expected, YONEX has also introduced the popular ASTROX 77 in the PRO, TOUR and PLAY models to the European market for the 2022/23 season. We from the BADLAB "Test-Team" were of course very excited and decided to do a practical test with the new YONEX ASTROX 77 PRO variant.