{"id":1245,"date":"2026-04-09T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/brand\/paddletek-group\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:08:25","slug":"paddletek-group","status":"publish","type":"brand","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/brand\/paddletek-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddletek Group | The long-established maker that raised ALW merges with ProXR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paddletek<\/strong>is<strong>2010<\/strong>is a long-established pickleball paddle maker founded in 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona (later relocated to Niles, Michigan). It merged with ProXR in 2024 and was reorganized as \"Paddletek Group\" in December 2025. It's the No.2 paddle brand by SFIA data.<\/p>\n<h2>Main product lines<\/h2>\n<p>The Bantam series (TKO-C 12.7mm\/14.3mm, GTO-C, ESQ-C, EX-L Pro) is its mainstay. Smart Response Technology polymer core.<\/p>\n<h2>Seven years with ALW<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/player\/anna-leigh-waters\/\">ALW<\/a>used it for seven years from 2018 (age 11). The Bantam ALW-C was a big hit. The contract ended at the end of 2025, and she moved to<a href=\"\/en\/brand\/franklin-sports\/\">Franklin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>JOOLA lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/brand\/joola-pickleball\/\">JOOLA<\/a>A defendant in the patent lawsuit.<a href=\"\/en\/brand\/proxr-pickleball\/\">ProXR<\/a>is also a co-defendant.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/player\/anna-leigh-waters\/\">ALW<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/brand\/proxr-pickleball\/\">ProXR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paddletek.com\/pages\/about-us-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paddletek official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/introducing-paddletek-group-advancing-the-future-of-performance-pickleball-302646989.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paddletek Group PR<\/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>Paddletek\uff08\u30d1\u30c9\u30eb\u30c6\u30c3\u30af\uff09\u306f2010\u5e74\u306b\u30a2\u30ea\u30be\u30ca\u5dde\u30b9\u30b3\u30c3\u30c4\u30c7\u30fc\u30eb\u3067\u5275\u696d\uff08\u5f8c\u306b\u30df\u30b7\u30ac\u30f3\u5dde\u30ca\u30a4\u30eb\u30ba\u3078\u79fb\u8ee2\uff09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"Paddletek Group\uff08\u30d1\u30c9\u30eb\u30c6\u30c3\u30af\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","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5,16],"brand_category":[156],"brand_country":[164],"region":[1973],"brand_name":[2793],"class_list":["post-1245","brand","type-brand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-info","tag-paddle","tag-brand","brand_category-paddle","brand_country-usa","region-united-states","brand_name-bn-paddletek-group"],"acf":{"founded_year":"","hq_country":"","official_url":"","logo_image":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1245","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1245\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"brand_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_category?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"brand_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_country?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"brand_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_name?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}