Isn’t it Frustrating When Your Tennis Balls Are Flat?

First, let me start by saying that while counting padel balls directly in this post, it applies equally to tennis balls in UK. So, with that in mind, we go. One of the biggest costs of playing padel, after the cost of renting stadiums, is that of buying padel balls. Padel balls start to lose their jump as soon as they are released from the press, and during the game, as they are beaten around, they lose even bigger jumps. 

The result is that after two or three games you will notice a clear difference in the bumps, which indicates that it is time to open a new tube and discard the old balls. 

Obviously, that can be very expensive, especially if you play a lot of games every week. Also, in the second and third games, you will be playing with unusual balls as they will be defeated. This will affect your game as you will lack the strength of normal jumping. So we have a cost problem and a problem of lack of consistency between each game. Remember that throwing away a lot of padel balls is also not natural. Obviously, this is an important issue that all padel players would like to find a solution to. 

The good thing is that I finally found a good solution that allows me to keep using the same balls for up to twenty games at a time. Now I can keep my balls under official pressure and enjoy the same jump in all the games. Eventually I have to change the balls not because they are no longer bumping, but because the feeling is old. 

The balls are made of two hemispheres. Inside there is a gas with a certain pressure that makes the ball bounce. Because the ball is made up of two parts, during play and just by leaving them out of their pressed tin, it will eventually leak gas and its internal pressure will be equal to that of the surrounding environment. 

Let's continue to learn about the solution. It is a tube that can be repressed at will and is called a Pascal Box. It is a Spanish invention and takes the world of padel by storm. I do not play tennis, but I think it is very successful with tennis players, as it works exactly like tennis balls. 

What the Pascal Box allows you to do is press the container, and you have a manometer to measure how much pressure is in the can. This way, you can play with your new padel balls and store them quickly in the Pascal Box and press the tin with the same pressure as the first can. That will lead to a loss of pressure over time, and the only loss of pressure will be that during real games due to hitting the ball. That's already good news, but what about balls that have already lost their jump? 

I think we all have padel balls that still look good, but they don't roll right anymore. You can restore them by placing them in the Pascal Box tube. Save a few days in Pascal Box and you will see them sound like new again. The instructions that come with Pascal Box tell you how to re-press padel balls. It takes about 9 days to repress the old balls, but they jump like new ones when the process is over. 

One last note. While you will extend the life of your paddle balls to a great extent (some users report playing 40+ games per set of balls) using Pascal Box, you will eventually need to replace them. Common reasons are that the sound is completely worn out or the ball loses its full circular shape due to the times it is hit with great force. 

The Pascal Box comes with a two-year warranty that I found to be generous. I am very excited about Pascal Box and totally recommend it to anyone who plays padel or tennis. And I carry a Tennis Ball Saver, a screw-top padel canister. It is intended to keep your balls under the same pressure as the first can. It works well enough and can extend the lifespan of your balls, but the air eventually comes out of these devices, and you cannot accurately control or monitor the pressure inside the tube. That makes the Pascal Box high, considering that you can replace old balls with the Pascal Box, something you can't do with other screw tubes.