Adidas padel rackets

adidas padel is not made by adidas

adidas padel rackets are designed and manufactured by All for Padel, a Spanish company based in Madrid that has operated the brand under license worldwide since 2013. The first racket collection was released in 2014, and the license has been renewed until 2029.

This is no mere curiosity. It explains why adidas padel follows the pace of the Spanish circuit rather than the calendar of a German multinational, and why its padel catalogue more closely resembles that of Bullpadel or Nox than that of a global sports brand.

All for Padel manufactures in Pakistan and China.

What adidas racket ranges are there?

There are six, and it is worth knowing them because the name of an adidas racket always begins with the range.

Two honest warnings about this table:

• Adipower is no longer renewed. There is no 2026 model, and Arrow Hit has taken its place. What remains is stock from previous seasons, and at stock prices. If you like the mold, it is one of the most interesting purchases in the catalogue; if you want new technology, look at Arrow Hit.
• Match and Drive are not independent ranges: they fall under Discovery. You will see both ways of naming them out there.

And a range does not tell you the level. Metalbone goes from Ale Galán's racket to a Superlight for beginners without leaving the family. The level is marked by the suffix, and that is what the next section is about.

What CTRL, Carbon, Team, Light and HRD mean

This is the part that really decides which racket you take. The name of an adidas is read like this:

adidas Metalbone Carbon Ctrl Light Pro Edt 2026 range material shape weight edition season

The three things that separate one step from the next are the face, the weighting system and the mold. Weight, that word "Light", is a fourth independent variable: you can have a Team Light and a Pro Light, and they have nothing to do with each other.

What is not known: what the "3." of Metalbone 3.4 means. adidas does not explain it in any official source. We do know what the decimal is, and it goes in the next H2.

The number 3.3, 3.4… and why it is disappearing

It is the season, nothing more, nothing less:

All ranges share the same decimal year. In 2025, Metalbone 3.4, Adipower 3.4 and Cross It 3.4 coexisted; from 2026 onwards, adidas writes the year directly and the numbering is over.

And here is the question that really matters: is it worth buying the previous season?

Almost always yes: the previous season usually costs quite a bit less. How much it is worth depends on the range:

• In Discovery, RX, Match and Drive: without hesitation. Between a Match from two seasons ago and the current one, the technical sheet is practically the same. What you pay extra for is the color.
• In the high range, it depends on whether you want the new technology. In 2026, there was a real jump: the rail adjustment system and the ASC face of Arrow Hit did not exist before.

The technologies of adidas, translated into what you feel

The proper names do not say anything by themselves. This is what changes in the hand:

eXoskeleton, Power Embossed and Structural Power are technologies of ranges already retired, not of the 2026 collection.

The trick of the colored cap

The cap of the grip tells you the rubber without reading the sheet. It is one of the most useful things this brand has:

And the reason, in the words of the brand itself: "density defines memory, the ability of the rubber to recover its initial position in less time. The greater the density, the more power; the lower the density, the more control and comfort."

What the adidas laboratory says

Four adidas rackets are in the 2026 guide of Testea Sport Lab, the laboratory of the ai2 institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València, which measured 60 models from thirteen brands with the same method:

Three things that come out of there:

1. The Cross It Light is the lightest racket of the sixty that the laboratory measured. Not "one of the lightest": the lightest on the test bench, and with the maximum score of manageability and sweet spot.
2. The two Metalbone score 5 out of 5 in ball output and power at the same time. Only four rackets out of sixty achieve it, and two are these.
3. And the same laboratory leaves it in writing: "a round racket does not automatically guarantee greater precision, in the same way that one with a diamond shape is not always oriented to an offensive game". The shape guides; it does not decide.

What rackets do the adidas professionals use

Ari Sánchez signed for adidas in February 2026 after seven seasons at Head, and her arrival coincides with the debut of Arrow Hit. The team is completed by Lorena Rufo, David Gala and Pol Hernández.

One warning we always give: the racket of a professional is designed for the arm of a professional. If you like the Metalbone of Galán, the sensible path is the Team or the Superlight of the same family: same mold and same structural technologies, without the aluminized carbon face that returns all the vibration to the elbow.

Are there women's adidas rackets?

No, and it is not an oversight: it is a decision. adidas does not have any line, any suffix or any women's filter in rackets. Its catalogue is organized by range, by level and by price, and nothing else.

We checked it all in the adidas catalogue, with all the seasons alive at the same time: not a single racket name carries W, woman or women. And we know it is intentional because adidas does label the gender when it wants: the clothing has it in the product name, and the padel footwear, with M or W. adidas separates by gender where the product changes shape, not in the racket, which is the same object for everyone.

If you see in the collection a "Metalbone W Team 3.4", that W is from our catalogue, not a name from adidas.

What that paper does is the weight, and it has a name: Light. The rackets of the women players of the adidas team are the Light versions of their range, the Cross It Light of Marta Ortega, the Arrow Hit Light of Ari Sánchez, not different rackets. And Light does mean something measurable: 345-360 grams versus the 360-375 of the standard.

So the useful question is not if a racket is for women, but how much you want it to weigh and how manageable you want it. A player with a fast arm may want 370 grams, and a player with elbow discomfort may want 345. Filter by weight, not by label.

(And watch out if you come from another brand: this is an adidas thing, not the sector. Bullpadel does have an official W suffix, and there it does mean fifteen grams less and another face.)

When do new adidas rackets come out

Twice a year, and with fairly reliable dates:

• The main collection, the first week of December, already labeled with the following year. It arrives in store between December and January. The 2026 one was presented on December 2, 2025 with 28 models and the debut of Arrow Hit.
• The PRO EDT editions, in June. Three limited edition rackets with a surcharge.

To that are added standalone editions linked to tournaments. And a nuance that saves money: the range is renumbered and re-estetized every year, but the architecture changes much less. Metalbone was born in 2022, Cross It in 2024 and Arrow Hit in 2026. In between, what changes above all is the color.

Complete your adidas equipment

adidas also makes padel shoes and padel bags. If you are choosing between brands, compare Head padel rackets, Bullpadel padel rackets, and Wilson padel rackets, or view all padel racket brands. The full range is available in all padel rackets.

Guide updated in September 2026.