Drop Shot
Drop Shot racket ranges
5 ranges
Pros playing with a Drop Shot racket
2 players
Drop Shot questions
Which pros play with a Drop Shot racket?
Jon Sanz and Lucas Campagnolo play with a Drop Shot racket on the professional tour.
How much does a Drop Shot racket cost?
Drop Shot rackets currently start at 129.95 EUR, depending on the model and how recent it is. The cheapest right now is the Drop Shot Axion Comfort.
What nationality is Drop Shot?
Drop Shot is a Spanish padel brand. Its rackets are sold across Europe and Latin America through the retailers we track.
What racket ranges does Drop Shot make?
Drop Shot builds 5 racket ranges — Ambition, Axion, Blitz, Explorer and Furia. Each range has several models tuned to different playing styles.
Is Drop Shot a good padel racket brand?
2 professional players on the current tour use a Drop Shot racket, which is the clearest signal there is that the brand builds at the top level. Whether it suits you is a separate question — the ranges below cover very different weights, balances and price points.
How many Drop Shot rackets are there?
We track 6 Drop Shot rackets currently listed by the retailers we follow, across every range and model year.
Why is the Conqueror line so significant in padel history?
Few signature rackets have run as long. The Conqueror became Juan Martín Díaz's line after he joined Drop Shot in 2012, and it advanced through at least twelve numbered generations over the following decade — a rare example of a signature saga outliving trends, model-year churn and even its player's competitive peak. For many players the Conqueror simply is Drop Shot.
How did Drop Shot's founder shape the brand's identity?
Marcelo Cascabelo came to padel sideways: an Argentine Olympic athlete who moved to Spain, distributed Argentine rackets in the late 1990s and ran sales for the racket firm Vision before founding Drop Shot in 2009. That import-and-manufacturing background shows in the brand's pragmatism — a broad price ladder, its own corporate factory structure, and expansion into courts and adjacent racket sports.
Was Drop Shot ever a major player at professional level?
Yes. In 2019 it became an official R&D technical sponsor of the World Padel Tour, sitting alongside the sport's biggest technical brands, on the strength of its patented Curv woven-carbon construction. Combined with Juan Martín Díaz and later former world number one Pablo Lima, the brand spent years genuinely embedded in the professional game.
Where does Drop Shot fit in today's padel market?
It is a heritage specialist that now competes on presence rather than sponsorship spend. Its pro roster is compact — Jon Sanz is the current flagship — but the brand reaches players through in-club pro shops across Spain and Portugal, an accessible-to-performance racket range, padel-court manufacturing in emerging markets, and a sizeable beach tennis business. You meet Drop Shot at the club, not on billboards.
About Drop Shot
Drop Shot's founder took an unusual route into padel: Marcelo Cascabelo, an Argentine former Olympic athlete, spent years in the Spanish padel industry — first distributing Argentine rackets in the late 1990s, then working for the racket firm Vision — before creating his own brand near Madrid in 2009. Within three years he had signed one of the sport's greatest names: Juan Martín Díaz, the long-time world number one, joined in 2012, and his Conqueror signature line became the brand's flagship, running through more than ten numbered generations over the following decade.
Drop Shot expanded quickly, reaching some 22 export markets by 2013, and in 2019 became an official research-and-development sponsor of the World Padel Tour, a deal built around its patented Curv woven-carbon construction. Former world number one Pablo Lima played with the brand from 2022 until his retirement in 2023, and in 2024 it signed Spanish left-hander Jon Sanz on a contract through 2027, with the Axion family serving as his racket line.
Today Drop Shot sits among the sport's heritage specialists rather than its biggest sponsors. The company reports distribution in more than 40 countries and has pushed into in-club pro shops across Spain and Portugal, padel-court manufacturing for Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and adjacent racket sports such as beach tennis and pickleball. Its racket range runs from entry-level frames to pro signature models, which keeps the brand visible to club players even as its professional roster has become more compact than in its World Padel Tour years.