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Tennis, Padel & Pickleball · Premium Polypropylene

Pickleballs, flat front
Flat front
GradePer unit at 100
ColourHunter Green
QuantityUnder 50, a $20 development fee applies

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  • Pickleballs, Premium grade (Premium Polypropylene)
  • Made to order in Hunter Green
  • Your size run, as set above
  • Replaced if anything arrives faulty

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Your logo on the chest, a woven label, a back print, a colour from your brand book: Gabi designs the changes with you in the Studio and prices the finished piece before you order it. Your logo file goes on as you supply it.

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Each ball forms a hollow sphere built from two joined hemispheres, with the weld line sitting flush around its midpoint. The round body is perforated by evenly spaced circular holes that pass through the wall, leaving a smooth outer surface between openings. Proportions stay uniform across the set, and the balls appear in dark green, black, and off-white.

Specs

GradePremium, Premium Polypropylene
Main Fabric100% Polypropylene, 1500gsm
SilhouetteSphere
Minimum order50 units

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Encyclopedia

Three dads on Bainbridge Island had bored kids, a badminton net, and no shuttlecocks.

They improvised with ping-pong paddles and a perforated plastic ball meant for backyard wiffle games. That was the summer of 1965. Fifty-eight years later, pickleball was the fastest-growing sport in America for three consecutive years running, and the paddle — still, at its core, an oversized ping-pong bat — had become a $50–200 carbon-fiber composite product with its own materials science.

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The story of the Pickleballs

Three dads on Bainbridge Island had bored kids, a badminton net, and no shuttlecocks. They improvised with ping-pong paddles and a perforated plastic ball meant for backyard wiffle games. That was the summer of 1965. Fifty-eight years later, pickleball was the fastest-growing sport in America for three consecutive years running, and the paddle — still, at its core, an oversized ping-pong bat — had become a $50–200 carbon-fiber composite product with its own materials science.

1965InventedOn Bainbridge Island, Washington, by three families
1984Official rulebookUSA Pickleball Association formalized standardized rules
2020–2023Growth streakNamed America's fastest-growing sport three years running

Three Dads, a Bored Summer, and a Ball with Holes

Pickleball was invented in the summer of 1965 by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum, three fathers on Bainbridge Island, Washington, whose families' badminton game was missing shuttlecocks. They lowered the net, improvised paddles from plywood, and used a perforated plastic ball designed for children's games — the same wiffle-style construction that gives the modern pickleball its low bounce and wind resistance. The name's origin is disputed: one account credits "pickle boat," a rowing term for a crew of leftover oarsmen; another says it was named after the family dog, Pickles, who chased stray balls.

The game stayed a regional novelty for decades, formalized with a rulebook in 1984 under the USA Pickleball Association, but its growth was slow and largely confined to retirement communities in the Pacific Northwest and Florida, where the smaller court and lighter paddle made it accessible to older players transitioning from tennis.

Paddle construction is where the category's manufacturing story lives: early paddles were solid wood, cheap and durable but heavy and lacking any "pop." The shift to composite construction — a honeycomb polymer core (typically Nomex, aluminum, or polypropylene) sandwiched between fiberglass or carbon-fiber face sheets — arrived from the broader composites industry and transformed paddle weight, power, and price simultaneously. A modern competitive paddle weighs roughly half what a 1990s wood paddle did.

The pandemic-era growth (2020–2023) was driven by exactly what the original inventors stumbled onto: a low barrier to entry, a court a third the size of a tennis court, and equipment cheap enough to try before committing. The Sports & Fitness Industry Association named pickleball America's fastest-growing sport for three straight years in that period, and paddle and ball manufacturing — previously a niche supplying a few thousand courts — scaled into a mainstream sporting goods category almost overnight.

Questions

A composite paddle with fiberglass face and polypropylene honeycomb core (China, 300-unit run) lands around $8–14; carbon-fiber face paddles targeting competitive players run $15–25 landed, with the face material and core density being the main cost drivers.

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