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HEAD | A tennis-world giant joins the pickleball fray
HEADis a global sporting goods maker founded in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, by aeronautical engineer Howard Head. It's now headquartered in Kennelbach, Austria. Known as Djokovic's maker in tennis and Lindsey Vonn's in skiing, it entered the pickleball market too by applying its racket sports technology.
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Main product lines
It offers four lines: the Radical series, theExtremeseries, the Gravity series, and the Boom series. The Gravity offers a wide sweet spot and control performance, while the Boom emphasizes power. It features a proprietary "Extreme Spin" finish and the vibration-reduction technology "CST（Control Stabilizer Technology）." US Open (multiple-time) champion Sarah Ansboury serves as ambassador.
Its strength as a tennis brand
Paddle weights are a somewhat heavy 7.6–8.1oz, with a head-heavy balance as a feature. Over 70 years of technological accumulation built in tennis forms the foundation of its reliability in the pickleball market, gathering support centered on players converting from tennis.
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