Bullpadel Avant Padel Bag (Black, BPPEX005)

Bullpadel uses the Avant name twice. The Avant S is a polyester two-racket bag; this one is cut from faux leather with a tonal, embossed logo, and it's a little deeper at 33cm against the Avant S's 30. From across a room it reads more like a gym holdall than a sports bag, which is either the point or the problem depending on your taste.

Carrying is well covered: two adjustable padded shoulder straps turn it into a backpack, and there are two hand straps plus a top handle. Padel Nuestro adds reinforced seams and a sturdy base, which matters on a bag that spends its life being dropped on wet tarmac outside a club.

The description promises room for up to four rackets in two side compartments "with thermal technology", a ventilated shoe pocket that keeps smells away from your clothes, a large central section and a small side pocket for keys and a phone. The same page's feature tab then says there's no thermal compartment and no shoe compartment. We can't settle that from a photo, so read the thermal lining and shoe section as listed, not confirmed. If either is the reason you're buying a bag, the Vertex bag and the Advance bag both have them on every listing we've seen.

Players who carry a racket and a spare, who'd rather not turn up to work with a neon kit bag, and who like a material that wipes clean. Faux leather shrugs off the sand that every outdoor court leaves on everything, though it won't breathe like mesh panels, so take damp kit out when you get home.

Every bag shape, from backpack to trolley, is laid out on our padel bag page. If you only ever carry one racket, a padded racket cover inside a sports bag you already own does the protecting job for much less, and the Bullpadel rackets page explains which racket families the brand's bags are named after.