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The Foam Era Has Changed Pickleball—Here Are the Top 2 Pickleball Paddles Right Now

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The fourth wave of pickleball paddles is here, and it finds the sport's technology at an interesting crossroads.

On one hand, the flagship offerings from mainstream paddle brands have never been more alike. That's because most pickleball paddle makers have adopted foam cores that have a more uniform feel than the carbon fiber honeycomb cores. While there are holdouts who preferthe old open cores, and will always be, I think it's safe to proclaim the foam cores are superior technology and are here to stay. Paddle shapes are likewise growing more similar—when I first started testing pickleball paddles for WIRED in 2023, many brands still had a few oval offerings, which have gone the way of the buffalo. Elongated paddles are...

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