Best foam core pickleball paddles

Foam — whether injected into the edge walls or filling the core outright — replaces air pockets with a material that returns energy more evenly across the face. Foam paddles measure larger effective sweet spots and hold their numbers longer than honeycomb builds.

Criteria · Foam-injected or full-foam cores, ranked by IQ score.

#1JOOLA Perseus Pro V 1616 mm · hybrid · 8.3 oz · SW 118$30089#2Selkirk OMNI 1616 mm · hybrid · 8.1 oz · SW 115$28089#3Honolulu J2CR16 mm · hybrid · 8 oz · SW 112$23089#4Six Zero Coral Pro16 mm · hybrid · 8.2 oz · SW 116$24089#5JOOLA Perseus Pro IV 1616 mm · hybrid · 8.3 oz · SW 118$28088#6Six Zero Infinity Ruby 1616 mm · hybrid · 8.2 oz · SW 116$22088#7CRBN TruFoam Genesis 214 mm · standard · 8.3 oz · SW 113$28088#8CRBN CRBN-3X Power Series16 mm · elongated · 8 oz · SW 114$17088#9Ronbus Tenon16 mm · hybrid · 8 oz · SW 110$18088#10CRBN CRBN-1X16 mm · elongated · 8.3 oz · SW 119$22088