{"id":1044,"date":"2026-04-09T02:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/brand\/head-pickleball\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:08:41","slug":"head-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"brand","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/brand\/head-pickleball\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAD | A tennis-world giant joins the pickleball fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HEAD<\/strong>is 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.<\/p>\n<h2>Main product lines<\/h2>\n<p>It offers four lines: the Radical series, the<strong>Extreme<\/strong>series, 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 \"<strong>CST\uff08Control Stabilizer Technology\uff09<\/strong>.\" US Open (multiple-time) champion Sarah Ansboury serves as ambassador.<\/p>\n<h2>Its strength as a tennis brand<\/h2>\n<p>Paddle weights are a somewhat heavy 7.6\u20138.1oz, 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.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/paddle\/head-gravity-pickleball\/\">HEAD Gravity review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tour-2026\/\">PPA Tour 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.head.com\/en_US\/pickleball.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HEAD Pickleball official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head_(company)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"pt-asof\"><small>* The prices, sponsored players, rankings, etc. in this article are information as of June 2026. Please check each official site for the latest information.<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEAD\uff08\u30d8\u30c3\u30c9\uff09\u306f1950\u5e74\u306b\u822a\u7a7a\u5de5\u5b66\u30a8\u30f3\u30b8\u30cb\u30a2\u306eHoward Head\u306b\u3088\u3063\u3066\u30e1\u30ea\u30fc\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u5dde\u30dc\u30eb\u30c1\u30e2\u30a2\u3067\u8a2d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"HEAD\uff08\u30d8\u30c3\u30c9\uff09\u306e\u7279\u5fb4\u30fb\u88fd\u54c1\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u30fb\u304a\u3059\u3059\u3081\u30e2\u30c7\u30eb\u3092\u89e3\u8aac\u3002\u30d4\u30c3\u30af\u30eb\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u56f3\u9451\u3002\u521d\u5fc3\u8005\u304b\u3089\u4e0a\u7d1a\u8005\u307e\u3067\u5f79\u7acb\u3064\u60c5\u5831\u3002","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[69,5,16],"brand_category":[156],"brand_country":[2834],"region":[1973],"brand_name":[2802],"class_list":["post-1044","brand","type-brand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-info","tag-tennis","tag-paddle","tag-brand","brand_category-paddle","brand_country-austria","region-united-states","brand_name-bn-head-pickleball"],"acf":{"founded_year":"","hq_country":"","official_url":"","logo_image":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/brand"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1044\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"brand_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_category?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"brand_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_country?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"brand_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_name?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}