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Head questions
Why is Head better known for its padel balls than its rackets?
For eleven years, from 2012 to 2023, Head supplied the official ball of the World Padel Tour, making it the default ball of professional padel's formative modern era. Ball partnerships have continued since — with the Spanish Padel Federation and at individual Premier Padel tournaments — so many players' first contact with the brand is still through the ball tin rather than a racket.
What makes Head's racket range easy to navigate for tennis players?
Head deliberately mirrors its tennis catalogue in padel: Speed for all-round play, Extreme for power, Radical and Gravity for control, with technologies such as Auxetic shared across both sports. For the many players arriving in padel from tennis, the familiar family names and consistent tiering make the range unusually easy to decode.
How deep do Head's padel roots actually go?
Deeper than most multi-sport brands. Head padel rackets were produced under licence in Argentina from 1989 — wooden frames made from kiri wood — a decade before the formal Head Padel launch in 2000. That pre-dates several of today's Spanish specialist brands, and Head has leaned into the history with anniversary editions referencing the original wooden model.
Is Head still a force at the top of professional padel?
Yes, though its roster is more compact than those of the biggest Spanish sponsors. Head kept Arturo Coello, one of the defining players of the current era, on his career-long deal through a period of intense sponsor competition, even as long-serving Ariana Sánchez departed in early 2026. One marquee player plus a strong ball business keeps the brand visible on tour.
About Head
Padel occupies an unusual place in Head's history: a company built on skis and tennis whose padel roots reach back further than those of many specialist brands. Founded in 1950 by engineer Howard Head, who applied aircraft materials to ski design before reshaping tennis rackets, the company now operates as Head Sport GmbH from Kennelbach, Austria. Its first padel rackets were wooden models produced under licence in Argentina from 1989, and the Head Padel brand launched formally in 2000 — a milestone the company marked in 2025 with a limited-edition racket referencing the Argentine original.
For over a decade, Head's most visible role in professional padel was the ball: it supplied the official World Padel Tour ball from 2012 until the tour's final event in 2023, and it has been the official ball of the Spanish Padel Federation since 2015, a partnership renewed again in 2026. On the racket side, Ariana Sánchez spent seven seasons with the brand before departing in early 2026, while Arturo Coello, one of the defining players of the current professional era, has used Head rackets throughout his career and fronts his own Coello signature line.
Head's padel range follows the family structure of its tennis catalogue: the Speed, Extreme, Radical and Gravity lines cover all-round, power and control profiles, with technologies such as its Auxetic construction carried over from tennis development. With models running from lightweight recreational frames to pro-level rackets, Head remains one of the more established international alternatives to the padel-native Spanish specialists.