Bullpadel Premium Pro Balls, Dozen (4 Tubes of 3)

The same ball comes three ways. A single tube of Premium Pro holds three. This dozen is four of those tubes in one box. A full case is 24 tubes, which is a club or coaching quantity rather than a household one.

The point of the dozen is freshness. Each tube is sealed and pressurised at the factory, so the three you haven't opened stay as lively as the day they were packed while you play through the first. If you open a tube a week, that's a month of new balls without a trip to the shop.

They're one of the better fits. Ball makers split their ranges by conditions: some balls are built for heat, dry air and altitude, others for damp, cool courts at sea level. Britain is firmly the second kind, and the Premium Pro is listed for humid, low-altitude play. Balls built for heat and altitude suit fast indoor courts and summer afternoons, and they're the wrong default for a wet Tuesday outdoors in Leeds.

One thing to be clear about: this is not the professional tour ball. Wilson has supplied the Premier Padel ball since 2024, and you can read about it on the Wilson Premier dozen page; Wilson's club-level alternative is the Dura-Weave X3 dozen. Bullpadel's own competition ball is the FIP-branded Next Pro; the Premium Pro is the one built for club play.

They look alike, and they weigh the same. The difference is pressure. The FIP rules set a padel ball's internal pressure at roughly 10.1 to 11.5 psi, and the LTA puts a new tennis ball at about 14 psi. That gap is why a tennis ball shoots off the back glass and ruins the rally, and why the LTA doesn't recommend playing padel with one.

Nobody can tell you in hours, and that includes Bullpadel, which publishes no figure. Pressure leaks from the moment you crack the seal, more quickly in heat and with hard hitting. A rule of thumb many players use: drop a ball from hip height, and if it no longer bounces back to knee height, open a new tube.

A padel ball pressuriser slows the leak between sessions by holding opened balls above their own pressure; the Head x4 pressuriser takes four balls. No maker claims a specific extra life, so think of it as a way to get a little more from a tube rather than a cure for flat balls.

Any racket, but Bullpadel players often like to keep the whole bag in one brand. The round Indiga CTR 26 is the obvious first racket, and the Vertex 05 27 sits at the other end of the range. The rest are on the Bullpadel rackets page and in the full padel racket range.

Keep the box in a padel bag with a thermal pocket if you can, out of a hot car in summer, and see our padel balls page for every other brand we stock. Add a racket, or a few packs of overgrips from the padel grips page, and the order clears the £40 line for free delivery.