HEAD Pro X XL Padel Bag (Pro X Racquet Bag XL)

Tennis Warehouse Europe lays it out like this. One compartment is lined with HEAD's CCT+ material and holds up to four racquets, protecting rackets and strings from heat and cold. The middle compartment opens on a U-shaped zip and is the big one. A third compartment at the end holds four more. Below them, a vented compartment takes shoes or wet kit, and there are two side pockets and a small mesh pocket for keys and grips.

Padded backpack straps fix to the base of the bag, with extra padding where it sits on your back, and there are grab handles on the end and the middle. HEAD's figure is up to 12 tennis racquets. The per-compartment counts on the retailer page add up to 13, so treat 12 as the honest maximum.

Padel rackets are short. The FIP caps a racket at 45.5 cm including the handle, and this bag is 80 cm long, so every legal padel racket slides in with length to spare. HEAD doesn't publish a padel racket count for it, and we won't invent one, but if a compartment takes four tennis racquets it isn't going to struggle with padel rackets.

The spare length is the catch. A padel racket rattles around in a compartment built for a longer frame, so pack it in a cover from our padel racket covers range, or wedge it with a towel. A bag cut for padel, such as HEAD's 45-litre Pro X Padel Bag L, holds padel rackets more snugly.

Coaches carrying spares for a session, families with tennis and padel players in the same car, and club players who switch sports in a week. It also pairs naturally with HEAD's heavier Pro X-era rackets such as the Head Speed Pro and the Speed Pro X, when you want spares, shoes and kit in one place and the rackets kept apart from the shoes.

Padel rackets in covers in the CCT+ compartment, tennis racquets in the middle, shoes in the vented end. Put balls from padel balls and a spare grip from padel grips in the side pockets, and court shoes from padel shoes in the end. Every bag we stock is on padel bags.