Padel Accessories

Four, to start with, and none of them costs more than a round of drinks. A frame protector stops the glass chipping the top of a new racket and costs £3 to £9. A three-pack of overgrips (£5 to £8) means the handle you hold in month three feels like the one you held in week one. A cover at about £5 keeps sand, keys and the car boot off the racket between games. And balls, because padel balls lose their bounce faster than most people expect and the club's tube is rarely the freshest.

That is the whole essential list. Everything else on this page is a fix for a particular nuisance. Hands that sweat through an overgrip in twenty minutes: grip spray or a wristband. Balls that are flat by your second session of the week: a pressuriser. A racket that feels a touch too light on the smash: a weight strip. An arm that buzzes on mishits: dampeners, and probably a softer racket. Agility ladders and cones are for people who have decided to get properly better, which is a fine decision and one you will know you have made.

Shoes are the exception that matters more than any accessory on this page. Padel is played on sand-filled artificial grass, and a running shoe slides on it in ways your knees will remember. If you are still playing in trainers, the padel shoes page is a better use of £60 than anything below.

The racket accessories are where most of the money goes and most of the confusion lives, so here they are in one place. Frame protectors and protection tape guard the top edge; the padel racket protector page compares every one we sell, from the clear Vibor-A Transparent Protector at about £4 to the Head Antishock Skin at about £9. Overgrips sit over the base grip and are the one true consumable; the Dunlop Tour Pro Padel Overgrip 3-pack at about £5 and the Wilson Profile Padel Overgrip 3-pack at about £5.20 are padel-length grips, and the padel grip page covers the rest, including replacement grips and Bullpadel's honeycomb Hesacore.

Dampeners press into the holes of the face. The Bullpadel Ease Vibe Dampeners at about £13.50 are four small elastomer plugs for 11 to 13 mm holes, about 1.5 g per hole, aimed at players who feel every off-centre hit in the wrist or elbow. They soften the buzz. They do not cure anything, and we would rather say that here than on a returns form.

Weight strips add mass where you want it. The Bullpadel Custom Weight 4 x 3 g at about £11 lets you add up to 12 g to the top of the frame in 3 g steps; the Babolat Balancer 3 x 3 g tape at about £7.60 does the same with tungsten strips; the Nox Weight Balancer at about £9 is 2 g and 4 g pieces for Nox rackets built with the Weight Balance System, such as the AT10 Genius. Head's Pro Spin Strips at about £16 go on the hitting face for extra bite; Head says about 2 g per application and up to 50 hours of play, which are the maker's figures, not our tests.

Finally, the wrist strap. The rules make a non-elastic cord no longer than 35 cm compulsory, and losing your racket or snapping the cord loses the point, so a frayed one is worth replacing. The Babolat Padel Wrist Strap at about £8 fits Babolat rackets with the Smart Buttcap; Nox Smartstraps at about £8.40 swap onto Nox rackets without tools.

A padel ball is a pressurised rubber core at roughly 10 to 11 psi inside, set by the FIP rules, and from the moment you crack the tube it starts leaking towards the pressure of the air around it. That is why the first set with a new tube feels brisk and the third feels like playing with a satsuma. A padel ball pressurizer (or pressuriser, if you were taught to spell before autocorrect) is a sealed canister that holds opened balls above atmospheric pressure between sessions, so the gas inside has less reason to leave.

We sell three. The Head x4 Balls Pressuriser at about £32 holds four balls, and most shops give a gauge target of 29 psi; the Head Ball Pump Pressuriser, 4 ball at the same price is a close relation, and retailers disagree on whether a pump is in the box, so check. The Tourna Ball Pump Pressuriser at about £25 is a three-ball tube sold mainly for tennis; Tennisnuts gives up to 14 psi. No maker publishes how much longer a ball lasts in one. Every listing says longer and leaves it there, and so will we. A pressuriser keeps a ball that is still lively from going flat; it cannot bring a dead one back.

Pick-up tubes are the other ball accessory, and they are for coaches and anyone who drills with a basket. Press the open end over a ball and it clicks inside. The Bullpadel Ball Pick Up Tube at about £18 is 96 cm long and holds up to 15 balls; the Babolat Ball Pick Up Tube at about £30 is listed at 14 balls by most retailers. For two players hitting a single tube of three, a pick-up tube is a solution to a problem you do not have. For a coach with sixty balls on the floor, it is a back saved.

The padel ball pressurizer page goes deeper on pressures and models, and the padel ball page covers which balls to buy in the first place.

Sweat is the most underrated kit problem in padel. A wet hand on a wet overgrip loses control of the racket face, and a racket that turns in the hand is a volley into the net. There are three ways to fight it, and they work best together.

Stop the sweat at the hand. A padel grip spray or hand spray is the quickest fix. The 4ON Total Dry Spray 50 ml at about £17.70 is an antiperspirant for the hand, sprayed five to ten minutes before play; the Raquex Enforce Hand Grip Spray at about £13.50 leaves a dry, non-sticky film. The 4ON Total Grip Spray 200 ml at about £20 does the opposite job: it adds friction to a hand or handle that is already damp, pitched as an alternative to chalk.

Stop the sweat on the way down the arm. A padel wristband catches what runs from the forearm before it reaches the grip. The Head 5 inch Wristband at about £6.50 and the Babolat Logo Jumbo Wristband at about £8, 10.5 cm long, cover most of the forearm; the Babolat Logo Wristband at about £6 and the Raquex Wristbands pair at about £5 are the short versions. One band on the racket arm is the job done for most players. A headband, such as the Babolat Tie Headband at about £9 that knots to fit any head, keeps sweat out of your eyes on an indoor court in July.

Then dry everything between games. A towel courtside is not glamorous, and drying your hand and handle at every change of ends is the quiet reason some players get far more sessions out of an overgrip than others. The adidas 3 Bar Towel Large at about £24 is 70 by 140 cm of cotton; the Babolat Medium Towel at about £19 is a more bag-friendly 90 by 50 cm.

Searches for a padel elbow support, or a padel guard elbow support, are common for a reason. A systematic review of padel injury studies in BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine (2023) found the elbow was the most frequently reported injury site, ahead of the knee, the shoulder and the lower back, and that tendon and muscle injuries were the most common type. Padel players get tennis elbow without ever having played tennis.

We do not stock an elbow brace or sleeve yet, and we would rather tell you that than sell you one on the strength of a sentence we cannot back. An elbow strap or compression sleeve may make a sore arm more comfortable during play; it is not a treatment, and pain that lasts more than a couple of weeks, wakes you at night or weakens your grip is one for a physiotherapist, not a shop. The contact page is open if you would like to know when supports arrive.

What we can sell are the racket-side changes that reduce the jolt reaching your arm in the first place. A softer, lighter racket with a lower balance is gentler on the elbow than a stiff, head-heavy diamond; the control padel racket page is the place to start. A fresh overgrip, or two of them to build a slightly thicker handle, means you do not have to squeeze as hard. And dampeners such as the Bullpadel Ease Vibe take the edge off the vibration. None of that replaces a coach looking at your technique, which is where most padel elbow begins.

For knees, the Precision Neoprene Knee Free Support at about £10 is a simple neoprene sleeve for warmth and a feeling of support. Again: comfort, not a cure. Proper padel shoes with a grip pattern made for sand-filled grass do more for a knee than any sleeve, and the Karakal Performance Insole at about £15 adds gel cushioning to a shoe that feels hard underfoot.

This is the one accessory question with real research behind it. A Swedish study of sports eye injuries treated in Jönköping County between 2017 and 2021, published in Acta Ophthalmologica in 2024, found that padel had become the leading cause of sports-related eye injuries in the region by 2021, almost all from the ball, and its authors suggested protective eyewear could be recommended. At the net, with four players and a hard ball in a glass box, there is not much time to move.

UK venues have noticed. Rocket Padel's terms list injuries to the face and eyes among the risks of play and strongly recommend appropriate protective sports eyewear, noting that ordinary prescription glasses are not built to take an impact. That last point matters if you play in your everyday specs: a lens that shatters is worse than no lens at all.

We do not sell padel glasses yet. Nobody makes much of a padel-specific goggle; the closest impact-rated option is squash eyewear, built for a smaller, faster ball. Padel sunglasses are a different question. They help outdoors on a low winter sun, but standard sunglasses are not impact-rated, so if you want both, look for sports eyewear rated for racket sports with a tinted lens. We will add a pair or two when we find ones we are happy to sell as what they are.

Padel is a footwork game played in short, sharp steps, and agility kit is how coaches drill those steps. The Head Agility Ladder at about £25 is a flat ladder for fast-feet drills, listed by one shop at 750 by 50 cm. The Precision Speed Agility Hoop Ladder at about £17 swaps rungs for interlocking hoops you can lay out in shapes, and the Toolz Agility Grid at about £25 is a hexagon trainer for changes of direction. Precision Mini Pro Cones at about £11 mark out targets on court for serve and lob practice.

Who should buy them: coaches, juniors in a club programme, and adults who play three or more times a week and want to move better rather than just more. Who should not: anyone who has played five times. In your first months, time on court with a partner who is slightly better than you improves your footwork faster than a ladder in the garden. The ladder is for when the game has stopped improving on its own.

Accessories make good padel presents because they are cheap, hard to get wrong and actually used. Mini racket keyrings are the fan item: the Nox AT10 Genius Padel Keyring at about £4.50 is a miniature of one of the best-known rackets in the game, the Head Racket Keyring, Coello 2026 at about £4 is styled on Arturo Coello's, and the Wilson Premier Padel Ball Keychain at about £5 is a little yellow ball for a bag zip. They do nothing on court and everyone seems to want one.

The useful presents are the consumables in the first section: a protector, a three-pack of overgrips and a tube of balls, together about £15, wrapped up with a wristband. They suit any player at any level and nobody has too many. If you want a bigger gift or the person has not started yet, the padel gifts and padel set pages are built for exactly that, and demand for both peaks every December.

Almost every padel accessory is unisex. Overgrips, protectors, pressurisers, sprays, dampeners and towels do not come in a men's and a women's version, and padel accessories for men are the same products as for everyone else, sometimes in a darker colour. Wristbands and headbands are one size on nearly every listing we carry; the Babolat Tie Headband knots to fit, which helps for smaller heads.

Where gender does change the product is shoes, and the men's padel shoes and women's padel shoes pages split the range by last and size. For juniors, the accessories are the same, scaled down only where it matters: a fresh overgrip on a small handle, a protector on a racket that is going to meet every wall in the building, and a cover for the school bag. The kids padel racket page covers the rackets themselves.

A few of our listings are for venues rather than players, and they turn up in searches for padel tennis accessories from people who run courts. The Edwards Pac-Dri Water Remover and Court Cleaner at about £100 is a foam roller on a stainless frame that clears standing water so an outdoor court plays again sooner after a shower, which in Britain is not a niche requirement. Edwards Court Number Plates at about £7 help players find court four without walking onto court three.

For hire rackets, the protector tubs and 50 m tape rolls on the racket protector page work out far cheaper per racket than single strips, and the overgrip tubs on the padel grip page do the same for handles. Coaches who clear a lot of balls will want a pick-up tube, and the Tourna All Ball tube holds about twenty. If you run a venue and want a mixed order, the contact page reaches us.

Accessories are light and cheap, which means most of them sit under the £40 free-delivery line on their own and pay £3.95 postage. The sensible way to buy padel accessories is with something bigger: added to a racket or a pair of shoes they ride free in the same parcel. If you are only buying small things, it is worth getting to £40 with things you will use rather than paying postage on a £5 strip of tape.

Here is how three typical baskets add up. None of them is a bundle we invented to sell you more; they are the orders people actually place.

A 60-overgrip tub for one player. You will be bored of the colour by grip twelve, and overgrips sitting in a hot car for a year lose their tack. Buy threes or twelves.

A pressuriser if you open a fresh tube every time you play. It solves the problem of half-used tubes, and if you never have one, you have no problem.

Anything sold as curing tennis elbow. Dampeners, grips and straps can make a sore arm more comfortable. Rest, technique and a physiotherapist fix it.

Everyday sunglasses as eye protection. They are not impact-rated, and a shattered lens near the eye is a far worse outcome than the ball alone.

And a matching wristband, headband, towel and keyring set before you have a racket protector and fresh overgrips. Look the part second. Protect the racket first.

Every accessory ships on a tracked UK service and arrives in 3 to 4 working days. Orders over £40 travel free; below that, delivery is £3.95. The delivery page has the detail.

Unused accessories in their original packaging can come back within 30 days for a refund. A worn wristband, an opened spray or a protector with its backing peeled is no longer unused, so check the size and colour before you open anything. If anything arrives damaged, tell us within 48 hours with a photo and we will put it right; the returns page has the rest.