15 Facts About Yonex

Yonex produces equipment and apparel for tennis, badminton, golf, and running.

Yonex produces athletic shoes and apparel including t-shirts, jackets, skirts, shorts, hoodies, leggings and hats.

Yonex was later forced out of this market because of the invention of plastic floats.

Yonex began to experiment with graphite shafts for both types of rackets and found that these would be useful for golf clubs.

In 1982 Yonex came out with the new oversized tennis racquet in the REX-series with the R-7 and R-10 racquets.

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In 1992 Yonex introduced the widebody badminton racket, the "Isometric 500", a racquet that was much less "tear drop"-shaped than previous ones.

Yonex describes itself as the world leader in golf, tennis and badminton equipment.

Yonex provides clothing for national badminton associations around the world, such as the Malaysian Badminton Association, Badminton Scotland, Badminton England, Badminton Ireland, and Badminton Wales.

Yonex has been teaming up with OCBC since 2007 to host the annual US Open Grand Prix Badminton Championships.

Yonex sponsors the All England Open Badminton Championships and is a partner of the Badminton World Federation which organizes the World Championships.

Yonex is significant in the tennis and golf industries as well and is a major sponsor of professional athletes in all three sports.

Yonex signed a contract with Chinese Taipei Badminton Association regarding national team jersey sponsorship in 2014.

In May 2016, Yonex was ultra vires to criticize the Taiwan national team players who have violated the dress code.

Yonex sent official documents to the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association threatening to sue the national team head coaches if the Association could not provide a reasonable answer.

For example, Yonex was dissatisfied that badminton player Liao Kuan-Hao used his personal sponsor bat and then Yonex was ultra vires to ask Chinese Taipei Badminton Association to fine Liao and force him be suspended for six months.