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Ice-cream colours, tournament credentials. The Lazy Sundae is the most cheerful face of AIXO's competitive Scorpion tier – 3K raw carbon, 14mm thermoformed core, USAPA approved, around £64 – and it plays with far more intent than the artwork lets on. Taking it out for a session, the tennis comparison that keeps surfacing is the first hit with a proper player's frame after years on a comfort racket. The 14mm core is quicker and firmer than the entry-tier Ghost's 16mm, so the ball leaves earlier and flatter when you drive – the response a tennis player's compact punch-volley technique is already calibrated for. The 3K carbon face adds real texture on the ball: roll dinks climb and dip, slice serves-of-sorts stay low, and the spin window on drives is wide enough to swing with confidence. The thermoformed construction is what makes the tier competition-ready. Heat-moulding the face, core and edge into a single sealed unit stiffens the whole structure and steadies it on off-centre hits – comparable to the jump in torsional stability you feel between a budget frame and a well-made one. It also means the paddle holds its playing character across seasons rather than softening in months. USAPA approval makes it league and tournament legal, so the Lazy Sundae can go exactly as far as your ambition does – while looking like dessert. We consider that a complete package. See the Scorpion Lazy Sundae at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Scorpion Lazy Sundae at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Lazy Sundae 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Glam Slam 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Spaceballs 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £45.00 Browse more: AIXO Scorpion series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Scorpion series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Ask at the counter which AIXO paddle suits the player who finds the whole colour-clash thing a bit much, and this is the answer. The Pastel De Nude wraps the Ghost's proven build – T700 carbon face, 16mm cold-pressed core, around £30 – in the subtlest finish the brand makes. Understated does not mean underspecified. The T700 face is the same carbon grade that anchors the whole Ghost series, and it gives the sleek exterior an honest, connected feel at contact – think of a classic, clean-hitting frame rather than a stiff modern power racket. The thick 16mm core supplies the forgiveness: a wide sweet spot, a soft response on mishits, and the kind of controlled depth that keeps you in rallies while your pickleball instincts catch up with your tennis ones. Where this paddle quietly excels is the mid-court reset – the shot tennis players find hardest, because nothing in tennis teaches you to absorb pace and drop the ball short. The plush core takes the sting out of incoming drives the way soft strings absorb a heavy ball, letting you block into the kitchen with a loose grip and no drama. It is a paddle for players who want their kit quiet and their game the talking point. Pair it with any of AIXO's printed overgrips if you fancy exactly one flourish – the tape fits your tennis racket too, which remains the tidiest trick in the range. See the Ghost Pastel De Nude at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Ghost Pastel De Nude at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Pastel De Nude T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Pastel De Mint T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Ultra Noir T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Browse more: AIXO Ghost series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Ghost series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Not every AIXO shouts. The Pastel De Mint is the calm one – a cool, minted colourway on the Ghost platform: T700 carbon face, 16mm cold-pressed core, around £30. It suits a particular sort of tennis player: the one who plays in club whites, keeps their bag tidy and wants their first pickleball paddle to feel considered rather than loud. Happily, the playing character matches the aesthetic. The 16mm core gives the softest, most cushioned response in the range – the paddle equivalent of a comfort-strung frame with a dampener in – and the wide sweet spot means your first hundred dinks land on something forgiving while your contact point settles. Control is the whole philosophy here. Pickleball's soft game – dinks, drops, resets – is played with relaxed hands and short movements, closer to how you would feather a drop volley than how you would drive a forehand. A thick-cored carbon paddle like this one makes those shots learnable, because the face grips the ball just long enough for you to feel what you did. Beginners get forgiveness; improvers get a paddle that never overhits under pressure. When your third-shot drive starts demanding more reward, AIXO's thermoformed Scorpion tier is the natural upgrade. Until that day, the Pastel De Mint is a genuinely lovely place to learn the sport – and it photographs disgracefully well beside a matching overgrip. See the Ghost Pastel De Mint at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Ghost Pastel De Mint at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Pastel De Mint T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Pastel De Nude T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Popstar T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Browse more: AIXO Ghost series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Ghost series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

The Popstar is the Ghost that refuses to be background. Bold, bright and unmistakable across the court, it carries the standard entry-tier AIXO build: a T700 carbon face on a 16mm cold-pressed core, priced around £30. For tennis players, the appeal is the same reason coaches hand beginners a forgiving frame rather than a tour racket. The 16mm core is the thickest in the AIXO range, and thickness in a paddle works like head size and low string tension in a racket – a broad sweet spot, a soft landing for the ball, and the confidence to swing without fearing the frame. While your brain is busy converting tennis instincts into pickleball ones (shorter swing, earlier prep, far more patience), the paddle quietly covers your errors. The T700 carbon face is what separates this from bargain-bin paddles. Carbon holds the ball a fraction longer and tells your hand what actually happened at contact – the difference between learning touch and merely poking at the ball. Dinks sit down, drops float where you aimed them, and when you do open the shoulders, there is enough response to keep the drive honest. At this price it is an easy first paddle, an obvious second paddle, and the one your non-playing partner will borrow and then not return. Consider yourself warned, and consider the artwork – part album cover, part fan poster – fair compensation. See the Ghost Popstar at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Ghost Popstar at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Popstar T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Dogtown T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Prism Break T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £40.00 Browse more: AIXO Ghost series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Ghost series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Some paddles you choose with your head; the Spaceballs gets chosen the moment it is seen. Planets, stars and cheerful chaos across the face – and underneath, the full Scorpion specification: 3K raw carbon, 14mm thermoformed core, USAPA approval, around £45. The first hit tells a tennis player most of what they need to know. The ball leaves the 3K carbon face with a clean, connected feel – closer to a fresh poly string bed than to the vague, trampoline response of cheap paddles – and the 14mm core keeps things quick through the air and lively off the face. Swing compact, take the ball early, and the Spaceballs behaves exactly as your volley technique expects a solid frame to behave: stable, predictable, no flutter. Thermoforming is the quiet hero of the spec. The heat-moulded, foam-edged unibody spreads the sweet spot wider than the old glued construction ever managed, so the difference between a pured strike and a slightly late one shrinks – think of it as a paddle with a forgiving swingweight that never needs lead tape. It is also why Scorpions survive league seasons that would delaminate lesser paddles. This is the tier we recommend to tennis players who already play weekly pickleball, and the USAPA approval means there is no ceiling on where you can take it. That it looks like a Saturday-morning cartoon while doing all this is, frankly, a bonus. See the Scorpion Spaceballs at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Scorpion Spaceballs at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Spaceballs 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £45.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Lazy Sundae 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Supernature 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £45.00 Browse more: AIXO Scorpion series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Scorpion series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

The Glam Slam is what happens when tournament-grade construction refuses to dress like it. It sits in AIXO's middle tier, the Scorpion series: 3K raw carbon face, 14mm thermoformed core, USAPA approved, around £64. From the stringing bench, the Scorpion tier is where the range turns serious. Thermoforming – the heat-moulded unibody construction the premium American paddles use – arrives at this price point, and with it comes the stability tennis players recognise from a well-balanced frame: off-centre contact stays solid, the face keeps its shape under pace, and the whole thing survives being thrown in a bag for years. The 3K carbon face has genuine bite for spin, and the 14mm core gives a lively, direct response – more first-strike than plush. In tennis terms, moving from the entry-level Ghost to a Scorpion feels like the step from a starter racket to your first proper player's frame: suddenly the equipment answers back when you swing with intent. Drives carry, speed-ups sting, and the paddle rewards the compact, early contact that good tennis technique already gives you. The USAPA stamp means it is legal the day your club league gets competitive. The glitter-and-glamour artwork will not be for everyone – that is what the rest of the Scorpion designs are for – but the player who wants their paddle to sparkle while their dinks stay disciplined has found their match. See the Scorpion Glam Slam at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Scorpion Glam Slam at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Glam Slam 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Lazy Sundae 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Aixo P11A Scorpion Series Mood 3K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £64.00 Browse more: AIXO Scorpion series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Scorpion series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Every tennis club has a member whose bag is a riot of neon – and now there is a paddle for them. The Ghost Neotag brings graffiti-bright tag artwork to AIXO's entry tier: a T700 carbon face on a 16mm cold-pressed core, at around £30. The spec is deliberately friendly. Where the flagship paddles chase stiffness, the Ghost's 16mm core is the thick, soft option – the paddle equivalent of a comfortable, larger-headed tennis frame strung at modest tension. The sweet spot is generous, the response is plush, and mishits are forgiven rather than punished. That matters enormously in your first months of pickleball, when your tennis-length swing is still shrinking to paddle-length and contact wanders around the face. The T700 carbon face is the reason we point tennis players at the Ghost rather than at cheaper fibreglass paddles. Carbon gives you honest feedback and enough bite on the ball to learn the soft game properly – dinks, drops and resets behave predictably, the way a decent string bed lets you actually feel a drop shot. Cold-pressed construction keeps the touch soft and the price sensible. Who is it for? Anyone starting out, anyone running club-night sessions, and any tennis player who wants a low-risk way to find out what the fuss is about – without buying a paddle that fights them. When your game outgrows it, the Scorpion tier is waiting; plenty of players keep a Neotag as their spare regardless, because it looks tremendous. See the Ghost Neotag at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Ghost Neotag at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Neotag T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Popstar T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £30.00 Aixo CP03 Ghost Series Impossible 'A' T700 Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £40.00 Browse more: AIXO Ghost series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Ghost series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

Camouflage that hides nothing: the Reaper Chaos Camo is the loudest way to buy AIXO's flagship construction. Underneath the print sits exactly the same recipe as the rest of the Reaper series – 18K carbon face, 14mm thermoformed core, USAPA approval – at around £70. For a tennis player weighing up the spec, think of the jump from a shop-strung recreational frame to a properly set-up player's racket. The 18K face is stiff and textured in feel, so slice-style dinks stay low and topspin rolls jump off the court, much as they do when you swap worn synthetic gut for a fresh textured poly. The thinner 14mm core plays like a lower-powered, faster-swinging frame: less free depth than a thick-core paddle, more reward for your own racket-head speed. And the thermoformed unibody is the equivalent of a high-quality layup with stable weighting – off-centre hits lose less, and the paddle simply lasts. Where the Chaos Camo earns its keep is the attacking transition game. Third-shot drives, speed-ups off the bounce, counter-volleys when a firefight breaks out at the kitchen – the stiff face keeps its shape and the ball leaves with intent. If your tennis instincts are aggressive, this paddle will not ask you to unlearn them, only to compact them. It is tournament legal, it is built to shrug off years of league play, and it looks like nothing else in the paddle rack. That is rather the point. See the Reaper Chaos Camo at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Reaper Chaos Camo at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo P14C Reaper Series Chaos Camo 18K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Aixo P14C Reaper Series Tiger King 18K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Aixo P14C Reaper Series Insane Bolt 18k Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Browse more: AIXO Reaper series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Reaper series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.

If your tennis game is built around a stiff, point-and-shoot frame strung with fresh polyester, the Reaper Insane Bolt is the paddle that will feel like home fastest. It is the top of AIXO's pickleball range: an 18K carbon face over a 14mm thermoformed core, USAPA approved, at around £70. Translate that into tennis terms and it reads like a player's racket spec sheet. The 18K weave is the tightest carbon AIXO uses, and it behaves the way a textured poly string bed does – it grips the ball for spin and gives energy back quickly when you accelerate. The 14mm core is the thinner, faster option, closer to a low-powered control frame that rewards your own swing speed rather than flattering a slow one. Thermoforming seals face, core and handle into one moulded unit, which is why the paddle stays stable when you catch one late and low, the same way a well-weighted frame resists twisting on off-centre returns. On court, the Insane Bolt wants to attack. Drives come off the face with real pace, roll volleys pick up heavy spin, and counters at the kitchen line feel crisp because the stiff face does the work. Tennis converts who already hit a compact, timed ball will find it addictive; players still finding the sweet spot should look one or two tiers down the range first. The lightning-bolt artwork is pure AIXO – nobody will mistake it for a beige flagship – and because it carries USAPA approval, it is legal for leagues and tournaments as well as club night. See the Reaper Insane Bolt at Central Tennis • Browse all AIXO pickleball paddles • Take the paddle finder quiz Shop the AIXO Reaper Insane Bolt at Central Tennis In stock now at Central Tennis. Expert stringing and racket fitting available in store. Aixo P14C Reaper Series Insane Bolt 18k Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Aixo P14C Reaper Series Tiger King 18K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Aixo P14C Reaper Series Chaos Camo 18K Raw Carbon Pickleball Paddle from £70.00 Browse more: AIXO Reaper series · All AIXO pickleball paddles · All pickleball Shop the AIXO Reaper series → Not sure what suits your game? Talk to our team — we fit, string and demo rackets every day.