PPA Tour Paddle Lab
Use professional data to find the perfect paddle
818 paddles from 115 brands, 468 of them measured the same way. Power, pop, spin, swing weight, twist weight and more, with the acronyms explained. Then buy the one you picked.
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Best All-Around Paddles
Paddles John Kew's tilt test puts in the balanced band: neither power- nor pop-leaning.
75 paddles
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Newly Tested
The most recent additions to the database, newest first.
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Newly tested
Latest into the lab
Vatic Pro
V-Sol Tour Elongated
Elongated · 16 mm · Power-leaning
Power mph
60.6
Spin rpm
2246
Swing wt
119
$109.99
Pickle Poppers
Pop n' Treasure Widebody
Widebody · 16 mm · Pop-leaning
Power mph
61.5
Spin rpm
2187
Swing wt
113
$179.99
On tour
What the pros play
The paddles in the bags of 91 PPA Tour pros, by brand, from the broadcast equipment list. A head count, not a ranking.
24 pros
- Scorpeus Pro V×7
- Kosmos Pro V×5
- Perseus Pro V×4
Anna Bright, Ben Johns, Brandon French, Brooke Buckner +20 more
2CRBN
8 pros
- TruFoam Barrage 4×4
- TruFoam Barrage 2×3
- TRUFOAM BARRAGE 3×1
Alex Walker, Allyce Jones, Anderson Scarpa, Andre Mercado +4 more
8 pros
- PT25-2/V-1.0×3
- GTO-C×2
- ESQ-C×1
Allison Phillips, Audrey Adele Brown, Ava Ignatowich, Christian Alshon +4 more
4Luzz
7 pros
- Pro Cannon×4
- INFERNO×1
- Pro-Blade 2×1
Abbigal Hatton, Adam Harvey, Cason Campbell, Christopher Haworth +3 more
6 pros
AJ Koller, Anna Leigh Waters, Hayden Patriquin, Megan Dizon +2 more
5 pros
Augustus Ge, Dekel Bar, Lauren Stratman, Pesa Teoni +1 more
5 pros
- ADIPOWER RX PRO 16×5
CJ Klinger, Cleo Bond, James Delgado, Jaume Martinez Vich +1 more
5 pros
- Hurricane Pro×2
- Hurricane Pro X×2
- Vantage Pro X×1
Camden Chaffin, Jorja Johnson, JW Johnson, Lina Padegimaite +1 more
How we test
Every number in the lab is a measurement from John Kew Pickleball's independent paddle database, copied through unchanged. Our editors add the words: what the metric means, how the paddle plays, and who it suits. Nobody pays to be here, and no score is ever edited.
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