Padel

Carbon or fibreglass padel racket? Compare stiffness, power, control, durability and price so you can choose the right face material for your level and budget.

Starting padel in 2026? Discover what makes a great beginner padel racket, the specs to look for and how to choose your first bat with confidence in the UK.

Play tennis and curious about padel? Compare courts, scoring, serves, kit and tactics so you can switch smoothly and enjoy your first padel session.

Every stringer knows the customers who chase lightness the way others chase power – quicker hands, easier arms, longer sessions. The Pastel De Mint is AIXO's answer in padel: a full carbon frame from the Ghost series, built super-light, with a MAX Sweet Spot EVA core and a SpinTex surface. Low weight changes padel the same way a lower swingweight changes tennis. Reactions at the net sharpen because the racket arrives on time; defensive scrambles off the glass become playable because you can reorganise the frame mid-point; and the arm finishes a three-set social evening without complaint. Full carbon construction is the trick that makes it work – keeping the structure crisp and connected at a weight where lesser materials would feel flimsy, just as a well-made light tennis frame can still hit a heavy ball. The MAX Sweet Spot core is the forgiveness engine, widening the zone where contact feels clean – welcome insurance while your padel timing is still borrowing from your tennis timing. And the SpinTex face keeps the ceiling honest: slice stays low, lobs dip, and the ball answers to the same brushing mechanics your topspin forehand already owns. Cool mint over serious engineering: for the player who wants speed of hand rather than weight of head, this is the pick of the AIXO padel wall. See the Pastel De Mint padel racket • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Pastel De Mint at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo Pastel de Mint Ghost Padel Racket - Full Carbon - RL-B09 from £64.00 Aixo Sundae Padel Racket - 3K Carbon RL-BO5 from £84.00 Aixo Country Club Padel Racket - 3k Carbon RL-B11 from £85.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Carbon fibre padel rackets · Beginner padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Padel is the most sociable format racket sports have produced, and the Sundae is a racket that understands the assignment: ice-cream-parlour graphics over an honest 3K carbon construction, with an EVA foam core and a SpinTex surface. For a tennis player picking up padel, this is the specification that keeps the learning curve friendly without capping the ceiling. The 3K carbon layup delivers a clean, communicative strike – a proper step up in feel from the fibreglass frames most beginners rent at the club – in the same way a first quality graphite racket transforms feedback after a starter frame. The EVA foam core supplies the forgiving, cushioned response padel's defensive game depends on: balls taken off the back glass, absorbed volleys, soft lobs under pressure. If you have ever admired how a well-strung frame calms a heavy incoming ball, you know the sensation this core is chasing. The SpinTex face adds the modern essential. Texture on the hitting surface behaves like fresh textured strings: your slice stays low off the glass, your topspin lob dips faster, and the ball generally does more of what your hand suggested. Bring it to the Friday night social court and it will match the mood; bring it to Sunday league and the carbon underneath will match that too. Rackets this cheerful rarely play this straight. See the Sundae padel racket • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Sundae at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo Sundae Padel Racket - 3K Carbon RL-BO5 from £84.00 Aixo Country Club Padel Racket - 3k Carbon RL-B11 from £85.00 Aixo Pastel de Mint Ghost Padel Racket - Full Carbon - RL-B09 from £64.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Carbon fibre padel rackets · Beginner padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

The Country Club padel racket is AIXO in its tennis-club tailoring: heritage-striped looks over a 3K carbon teardrop frame, an EVA foam core tuned for MAX Control, and a SpinTex surface to keep the ball on a short leash. Control is the word that matters. Where the power-focused frames in the range chase the smash, the Country Club is built for the game between the smashes – which, as any tennis player discovers in their first month of padel, is most of the game. The control-tuned EVA core absorbs and steadies the strike the way a plush string bed at sensible tension does, so lobs land in the last metre rather than on the back glass, and blocked volleys drop where you looked. The teardrop shape keeps enough weight in the head for a respectable overhead without dragging your hand speed down in quick exchanges at the net. The SpinTex face earns its keep on the tennis player's best inherited weapon: the slice. Padel adores a low, skidding ball, and a textured 3K carbon face lets you carve chiquitas and defensive slices that stay ankle-height off the glass. This is the racket for the player whose tennis game was built on placement over pace – and whose kit bag has standards. It plays as neatly as it dresses. See the Country Club padel racket • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Country Club at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo Country Club Padel Racket - 3k Carbon RL-B11 from £85.00 Aixo Neotag Padel Racket - 18k Carbon RL-B13 from £105.00 Aixo Pastel de Mint Ghost Padel Racket - Full Carbon - RL-B09 from £64.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Carbon fibre padel rackets · Intermediate padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

If padel is becoming your second sport rather than your novelty night out, the Neotag is the AIXO to consider first. It pairs an 18K carbon teardrop frame with a SpinTex surface and M-MAXX control – a specification aimed at the player who wants power and precision on speaking terms. The teardrop shape is padel's all-court compromise, and tennis players read it quickly: the balance sits between the whippy round-head control frames and the top-heavy diamond smashers, much as a modern all-round tennis racket sits between a slim control box-beam and a wide-body power frame. You get enough mass behind the overhead to finish points, without surrendering the quick hands that wall exchanges and net volleys demand. The 18K carbon build gives the Neotag its crisp, immediate strike – stiff-frame directness that players of firm graphite tennis rackets will find familiar – while the SpinTex textured face does the job a fresh set of shaped poly strings does: it grips the ball through contact. Padel rewards spin more than newcomers expect; a rough face turns your tennis slice into vicious low chiquitas and puts kick on smashes aimed at the glass. Dressed in AIXO's neon graffiti tag over serious carbon, the Neotag makes the strongest case for the brand's whole philosophy: proper engineering, zero beige. See the Neotag padel racket • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Neotag at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo Neotag Padel Racket - 18k Carbon RL-B13 from £105.00 Aixo Insane Bolt Padel Racket 18k Carbon RL-B12 from £126.00 Aixo Country Club Padel Racket - 3k Carbon RL-B11 from £85.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Carbon fibre padel rackets · Intermediate padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Some tennis players arrive at padel and immediately ask where the smash racket is. This is it. The AIXO Insane Bolt is the brand's out-and-out attacking padel frame: an 18K carbon diamond-head construction with head-heavy balance and a MAX Power EVA core. Each of those choices maps neatly onto tennis intuition. The diamond head shape moves mass towards the tip, the way a head-heavy tennis frame loads the top of the hoop – you feel the extra swingweight immediately, and so does the ball. That balance costs a little handling speed in fast exchanges and pays it all back on the bandeja and the overhead smash, where padel points are actually finished. The 18K carbon layup keeps the structure stiff so none of your racket-head speed leaks away at contact, exactly as a stiff graphite hoop keeps a first serve honest. The MAX Power EVA core defines the personality: a firmer, energy-returning heart that turns committed swings into court-length winners. Tennis players with a natural serve-and-smash game – the ones who miss hitting up on the ball in pickleball – tend to bond with this racket within a session. It is a frame for the front of the court and the finish of the point. If your instinct on a short ball has always been violence, the Insane Bolt will feel like being handed your own language. See the Insane Bolt padel racket • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Insane Bolt at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo Insane Bolt Padel Racket 18k Carbon RL-B12 from £126.00 Aixo Neotag Padel Racket - 18k Carbon RL-B13 from £105.00 Aixo Country Club Padel Racket - 3k Carbon RL-B11 from £85.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Carbon fibre padel rackets · Advanced padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

The purple Fizzball Junior is the second colour of AIXO's first-racket padel frame for children up to about ten – and if your household contains one tennis player and one magpie, this is usually the one that goes home. Everything about it is tuned to a child's first two seasons of racket sport. The fibreglass construction keeps the racket genuinely light – the padel equivalent of the 19- to 23-inch junior tennis frames that let small players swing freely rather than steer – and the EVA foam core gives a soft, springy response that makes clean contact feel like a reward. Padel helps enormously here: the court is enclosed, the serve is underarm, and the walls give every ball a second life, so a beginner's session contains twenty times the rallies a first tennis lesson does. Tennis-playing parents will notice how much transfers back. Padel teaches early preparation, volley courage and reading rebounds – the exact instincts that later make a junior comfortable at the tennis net. Starting a child on a properly sized padel frame is not a detour from tennis; it is cross-training with better graphics. Speaking of which: bold purple artwork, sized-for-small-hands grip, and a blue sibling model for the inevitable second request. Racket sports habits are built at this age – this is a very good place to build one. See the Fizzball Junior Purple • Browse all AIXO padel rackets • Compare every padel racket we stock Shop the AIXO Fizzball Junior at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. AIXO Fizzball Junior Padel Racket - Purple from £60.00 AIXO Fizzball Junior Padel Racket - Blue from £60.00 Aixo Sundae Padel Racket - 3K Carbon RL-BO5 from £84.00 Browse more: All padel rackets · Beginner padel rackets · Fibreglass padel rackets Shop all AIXO padel rackets → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.