Hirostar racket ranges
9 ranges
Pros playing with a Hirostar racket
1 player
Hirostar questions
Which pro plays with a Hirostar racket?
Tolito Aguirre plays with a Hirostar racket on the professional tour.
What nationality is Hirostar?
Hirostar is a Italian padel brand. Its rackets are sold across Europe and Latin America through the retailers we track.
What racket ranges does Hirostar make?
Hirostar builds 1 racket range — Alien. Each range has several models tuned to different playing styles.
How many Hirostar rackets are there?
We track 11 Hirostar rackets currently listed by the retailers we follow, across every range and model year.
What kind of player is Hirostar built for?
Attacking players with a developed technique. The core of the line is stiff, head-heavy and unforgiving in the way that rewards a clean strike and punishes a late one, with carbon faces in dense weaves over firm EVA and shapes that concentrate mass towards the top. A player who still needs help getting depth on defensive shots will find the frames demanding.
How does an Italian brand compete in a Spanish-dominated sport?
By treating design as a product feature rather than as packaging. Spain owns padel's history, its professionals and most of its retail, so a newer brand cannot win on tradition. Italian manufacturers have leaned instead on appearance, finish and collaboration, areas where Italian consumer goods already carry credit, while building frames to the same specifications as everyone else.
What does the Alien collection say about the brand?
It shows a company willing to hand a product's identity to a player rather than impose one. The design comes from Tolito Aguirre's own tattoos, which makes it recognisable in a category where most graphics are interchangeable. It also signals the brand's priority: the collection sits at the aggressive end of the range, not in the middle where volume usually is.
How does Hirostar compare with the established padel brands?
It offers comparable materials with far less market presence. Buyers get dense carbon and firm cores without the resale value, retail availability or demo programmes that come with a major badge. That trade is worth making for a player who has already settled on a shape and balance, and is a poor one for anybody still working out what they want.
About Hirostar
Italy took to padel later than Spain and then took to it faster than anywhere else in Europe, and Hirostar grew out of that. The company is registered in Milan and designs there, which puts it in a small group of Italian manufacturers competing in a sport whose vocabulary, shapes and professionals are overwhelmingly Spanish and Argentine.
Its answer has been to specialise rather than to cover the market. The frames lean towards diamond shapes with the balance high, dense 12K and 24K carbon faces, EVA cores on the firmer side and roughened hitting surfaces: a specification aimed at players who finish points from the net rather than at improvers looking for forgiveness. Softer and rounder options exist, but they are not what the brand is for.
The Alien collection is the clearest statement of intent. Built with Tolito Aguirre, it reproduces the alien and the phrase tattooed on his arm, and it works because it is a genuine collaboration rather than a signature sticker: the design belongs to the player, not to a marketing department. For a company without decades of history, borrowing a professional's identity is a faster route to recognition than inventing a heritage it does not have.
Hirostar suits a player who already knows they want a stiff, head-heavy frame and is willing to buy outside the obvious names to get one. It is stocked through padel specialists across Europe and direct from the company, and it competes on specification and appearance rather than on the weight of the badge.