Hey everyone. A friend of mine purchased a nano 8000 and after a more careful look i am tempted to buy 1 myself. He played a relaxed night at his local club tonight and when playing doubles had a clash of racquets with his female partner. Now his new racquets has broken, completely craked on the 1 side but with no hit mark. this has sort of put me off a little bit. He had it strung to about 23/24, does this happen alot? Thanks
Do you happen to have any pictures of it? Must of hit it quite hard for it to crack, can't tell for sure.
is it TH version? i clashed my nano8000 with my partner 2 days ago, and it was pretty hard clash, but mine is fine, there is no paint chip at all.
Seems to look bad, possibly a defect. Better if you have another picture of the close up shot of the crack itself that would be more useful. Lets see what the other members think of it the provided picture.
I love the Nanospeed 8000 so much that I own 6 of them all atrung at 30lbs. Given that I play primarily doubles, there has inevitably been some racket clashes but as of yet, I haven't seen even so much as a bit of chipped paint! Some people have spoken of the fragile nature of this racket but in my experience, it is solid in both performance and structure, unless you launch it against a wall of course!
Therefore, it would probably be due to some kind of structural defect or it may simply have been poorly strung by whoever responsible. I have been stringing my own rackets for a while now and it never ceases to amaze me the number of subtle things to look out for especially at high tensions.
If that is the case, most probably it may be due to manufacturing defects (internal cracks). Bring it back to the shop, they will be able to tell if it is due to defects. It is warrantied against manufacturing defects... Thanks.
I bought mine about 2 weeks ago but decided to restring it as it doesn't looked like it was strung correctly. I had a clashed but it was fine. However, this other chap who bought from the same person (eBay - Sumai03) as I do, didn't restring his racquet. He clashed his racquet but he said they were not hard clash and his racquet broke! They were both TH version. I suspect it was strung incorrectly.
The earlier batch of NS7k/8k are known for being fragile. I've seen almost every single one of the earlier 7k/8k broken around my local clubs. That including TH, tons of US, and even 1 JP. So, Whether which distribution code is not a main factor (as debated for 10,000 times, in 1,000 other threads already).
what is the production date of this reacket? (cone and shaft numbers) Many said that the first batch of this racket is really fragile and breaks easily.
Sorry guys i dont know the model numbers as its a friends, but we took the racquet back today and the shop send it back to yonex. So a happy ending
Hi, thanks for all the help, the racquet is now being sent to yonex for their evaluation, hopefully they will respond quickly.