7 Best Elongated Pickleball Paddles For Power & Control In 2026

An elongated paddle is longer and narrower than a standard one — roughly 16.5″ long by 7.5″ wide, against a standard shape’s roughly 16″ by 8″. The old version of this guide said the opposite (“broader and longer”), and its meta description recommended the shape for a “larger sweet spot” and “lightweight” feel. Both claims are backwards, and the corrections are the whole story of this category: an elongated paddle has a smaller sweet spot than a widebody, and its published swingweights are the highest in the game. What the shape actually sells is reach and leverage — a longer lever for drives, serves and overheads, a higher contact point, and handles long enough for a genuine two-handed backhand. Players buy that reach with hand speed and forearm load. This guide’s six picks are the current elongated field, verified against manufacturer specifications, with the trade-off priced in published numbers wherever the makers provide them.

The old list also contained a counting error that tells its own story about how it was assembled: the same paddle, the Vulcan V550, appeared twice, as pick three and pick six — a ten-pick list containing nine products. Around the duplicate sat a non-elongated Selkirk Amped in a shape-specific list, a pick that named a brand and no model, and legacy generations throughout. All of it is replaced below; nothing is duplicated, and every pick is elongated by its manufacturer’s own dimensions.

The honesty notes that apply sitewide hold here: no prices appear anywhere in this guide (check current pricing wherever you buy), and swingweight is printed only where a manufacturer publishes it — which, in this category, happily includes the two figures that matter most: 118 on the Selkirk ERA Power, and a 115–123 published range on the Paddletek TKO-C. Where a maker publishes none, the table says so.

The 6 Best Elongated Pickleball Paddles at a Glance

Pick	Best for	Weight	Core	Face	Grip	Swingweight
JOOLA Perseus Pro IV 16mm	Best elongated overall	8.1 oz avg	Propulsion Core + Hyper-Foam Edge Wall, 16mm	Textured Carbon Fiber	4.25″	Not manufacturer-published
Selkirk SLK ERA Power Elongated	Elongated power with published spin	7.9–8.4 oz	Dynamic Fusion Core (PP honeycomb + EVA foam perimeter), 16mm	Woven fiberglass + T700 raw carbon, Raw Spin Technology	4.25″	118 (Selkirk-published)
Gearbox GX2 Power Elongated	Solid-core elongated	8.0 oz	SST 2.0 CarbonRibCore — solid carbon-rib construction, 16mm	3K woven raw carbon	4″	Not published on Gearbox’s product page
Paddletek Bantam TKO-C 12.7mm	Thin-core elongated, published stability numbers	7.7–8.1 oz	Bantam core with QRT activation, 12.7mm	PT-700 raw carbon	Not published by Paddletek (retailers list 4¼″)	115–123 (Paddletek-published)
Engage Pursuit Pro1 Elongated 12.7mm	Longest handle in the list	8.0 oz avg	MachPro Polymer, 12.7mm	Raw carbon with Inner Application Layer	4¼″	Not manufacturer-published
CRBN TruFoam Genesis 1 (Elongated, Long Handle)	Foam-core elongated	8.05 oz avg (7.9–8.2)	TruFoam — 100% foam, 14mm	T700 raw carbon peel-ply + fiberglass layer	4⅛″	Not manufacturer-published

Read the dimensions column first — 16.5″ down the line is what makes this a shape list — then the swingweight column, which is the price list for the reach: where published, these are the heaviest-swinging paddles on this site.

1. JOOLA Perseus Pro IV 16mm — Best Elongated Overall

Who it’s for: The advanced player who wants the shape’s reach and leverage in the tour’s reference build, with the thicker core for defending what the reach attacks.

The Perseus Pro IV is the elongated benchmark against which the rest of this list is priced: 16.5″ × 7.5″, a 16mm Propulsion Core steadied by a Hyper-Foam Edge Wall, and a Textured Carbon Fiber face, at an 8.1 oz average. The foam edge wall matters more in this shape than in any other — an elongated face’s sweet spot sits high and small, and the wall widens the band around it that responds properly, so the stretched contact this shape exists for still plays like a shot instead of a mishit. The 16mm thickness (a 14mm build exists and plays quicker and firmer) is the one to choose if your elongated game includes resets and blocks, not just drives.

JOOLA publishes no swingweight for this paddle, so none is printed — expect elongated leverage, and demo accordingly. Certification is dual and current: USA Pickleball PBCoR .43 certified and UPA-A certified, per JOOLA. This paddle also leads our guide to the best pickleball paddles for advanced players; here it leads on the shape-specific merits — reach, a steadied perimeter, and a 5.5″ handle that accommodates a two-handed backhand without crowding it.

• Weight: 8.1 oz avg
• Core: Propulsion Core + Hyper-Foam Edge Wall
• Face: Textured Carbon Fiber
• Thickness: 16mm
• Grip: 4.25″
• Handle: 5.5″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7.5″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: Not manufacturer-published
• Certification: USAP PBCoR .43 certified + UPA-A certified

2. Selkirk SLK ERA Power Elongated — Power With a Published Spin Number

Who it’s for: The spin-and-power player who wants both halves of the elongated bargain quantified by the maker — and can pay the highest published swingweight in this guide.

Selkirk publishes the two numbers that define this paddle. The first is spin: “exceeding 2,000 RPM,” the only manufacturer-published spin figure in the current game, sitting deliberately under the 2,100 RPM ceiling the Spin Rate Test now applies to new certifications. The second is the cost: a swingweight of 118, Selkirk-published. That is the elongated trade in one specification — the leverage that makes topspin drives dip and put-aways carry is the same leverage your forearm starts and stops on every swing. The construction underneath is a 16mm Dynamic Fusion Core (polypropylene honeycomb with an EVA foam perimeter) behind a three-layer face of woven fiberglass and T700 raw carbon with a Raw Spin Technology surface.

At 7.9–8.4 oz static with the longest-but-one handle here (5.8″), the ERA Power is the elongated pick for the player whose game is built at full swing: serves, drives, overheads, roll volleys on the move. Kitchen-line hands battles are where its bill arrives. Choose it with your eyes open and it is the most complete power-spin package in the shape.

• Weight: 7.9–8.4 oz
• Core: Dynamic Fusion Core — PP honeycomb + EVA foam perimeter
• Face: Woven fiberglass + T700 raw carbon, Raw Spin Technology surface
• Published spin: Exceeding 2,000 RPM (Selkirk-published)
• Thickness: 16mm
• Grip: 4.25″
• Handle: 5.8″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7.45″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: 118 (Selkirk-published)

3. Gearbox GX2 Power Elongated — The Solid-Core Route

Who it’s for: The player who wants elongated power from a fundamentally different construction — a solid carbon-rib core instead of a honeycomb.

Every other pick here is built on a honeycomb or foam core; the GX2 Power Elongated is built on Gearbox’s SST 2.0 CarbonRibCore — a solid core of carbon ribs — behind a 3K woven raw carbon face. Solid construction answers the elongated shape’s weakness directly: a long, narrow face on a honeycomb core can feel lively at the tip and dead at the throat, while a solid core’s response stays even along the length, which is where elongated players actually make contact. At 16.5″ × 7⅜″ it is also the narrowest face in this list — the purest expression of the shape — with the smallest grip here, at 4″, and a single listed weight of 8.0 oz. Gearbox publishes no swingweight on its product page, so none is printed.

Certification needs one careful sentence. The GX2 Power Elongated is USA Pickleball approved and PBCoR approved, and UPA-A certified — with Gearbox’s own exclusion of the Pro Main Draw and MLP Pro in the USA, so it should not be described as carrying unrestricted UPA-A pro eligibility. And for the record, on USA Pickleball’s delisting history rather than Gearbox’s marketing: Gearbox’s earlier Pro Power Elongated was among the paddles delisted in 2025, which makes the GX2 line the company’s current, compliant elongated power offering — a distinction worth drawing precisely, because the old model’s status says nothing about this one’s.

• Weight: 8.0 oz
• Core: SST 2.0 CarbonRibCore — solid carbon-rib construction (Toray T-700)
• Face: 3K woven raw carbon
• Thickness: 16mm
• Grip: 4″
• Handle: 5½″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7⅜″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: Not published on Gearbox’s product page
• Certification: USAP approved + PBCoR approved; UPA-A certified (excl. Pro Main Draw / MLP Pro in the USA, per Gearbox)

4. Paddletek Bantam TKO-C 12.7mm — Thin Core, Published Numbers

Who it’s for: The hands-speed player who wants elongated reach on the thinnest core in the list — and the only buyer here who gets both swingweight and twist weight from the maker.

Paddletek lists this shape as Elongated in its own line — 16.5″ × 7.5″ — and builds it on a 12.7mm Bantam core with QRT activation behind a PT-700 raw carbon face. Thin in an elongated paddle usually means harsh and tip-light; the published numbers say otherwise, and they are this pick’s real distinction: Paddletek publishes a swingweight range of 115–123 and a twist weight range of 6.7–7.5 for the TKO-C. Read both honestly. The swingweight range confirms the shape’s cost — even the thin-core elongated is a heavy swing. The twist range confirms the compensation: the face resists rotation on off-centre contact, which is how a 7.7–8.1 oz elongated paddle stays playable at full stretch.

One labelling note, printed because this guide labels its sources: Paddletek does not publish a grip circumference on its current product pages, so the 4¼″ in circulation for this model is a retailer figure, not a manufacturer one — it is noted in the table as such. The 5.25″ handle is the shortest among the true elongated picks, suiting a compact one-handed game that uses the reach without adding a second hand’s leverage.

• Weight: 7.7–8.1 oz
• Core: Bantam core with QRT activation
• Face: PT-700 raw carbon
• Thickness: 12.7mm
• Grip: Not published by Paddletek (retailers list 4¼″)
• Handle: 5.25″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7.5″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: 115–123 (Paddletek-published)
• Twist weight: 6.7–7.5 (Paddletek-published)

5. Engage Pursuit Pro1 Elongated 12.7mm — The Longest Handle Here

Who it’s for: The two-handed-backhand player first, and the reach player second: this paddle’s 5.875″ handle is the longest in the list, on a thin, lively core.

Handle length is an elongated paddle’s second dimension, and the Pro1 maximises it: 5.875″ of handle on a 16.5″ × 7.5″ frame leaves genuine room for a second hand without choking the first one up the throat — the build a two-handed backhand player should start from. The core is the thin one in Engage’s line, a 12.7mm MachPro Polymer, behind a raw carbon face whose Inner Application Layer Engage describes as providing maximum texture/friction — spin and pace from a quick, brushing swing, with the elongated lever doing the rest. At an 8.0 oz average it is mid-pack on the scale; the quickness is in the core thickness and the leverage is in the geometry.

Engage publishes no swingweight for this paddle, so none is printed — assume the shape’s usual cost and demo with hands battles in mind. Engage’s own specification block lists it as USA Pickleball approved for tournament play. If your elongated game runs through a two-hander and a driving third shot, this is the most purpose-built handle in the category.

• Weight: 8.0 oz avg
• Core: MachPro Polymer
• Face: Raw carbon with Inner Application Layer texture system
• Thickness: 12.7mm
• Grip: 4¼″
• Handle: 5.875″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7.5″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: Not manufacturer-published
• Certification: USAP listed and approved (Engage specification block)

6. CRBN TruFoam Genesis 1 (Elongated, Long Handle) — The Foam-Core Elongated

Who it’s for: The player who wants the shape’s reach with the newest core behaviour in the game: full-foam dwell and an even response along a long face.

A full-foam core answers the elongated question in a way honeycomb cannot: with no cells to crush unevenly, CRBN’s TruFoam core — 100% foam, a proprietary high-density blend with no honeycomb, per CRBN — responds evenly along the paddle’s length, and an elongated face is exactly where evenness is scarcest. The Genesis 1 pairs it with a T700 raw carbon peel-ply face over a fiberglass layer, in the elongated, long-handle variant. Read its 14mm as a foam measurement: foam flex and dwell make it hold the ball like a thicker honeycomb build, which is how the thinnest-looking number in this list plays control into the soft game.

Certification, per CRBN’s own FAQ: USA Pickleball approved with PBCoR .43, and UPA-A provisionally approved. One transparency note: CRBN’s product page does not publish weight, dimensions or grip for this paddle, so the figures below are the widely listed retail specification for this exact model (16.5″ × 7.35″; 8.05 oz average; 4⅛″ grip) — confirm them on CRBN’s page or with your retailer before buying. No swingweight is published by CRBN.

• Weight: 8.05 oz avg (7.9–8.2)
• Core: TruFoam — 100% foam (proprietary high-density blend, no honeycomb)
• Face: T700 raw carbon peel-ply + fiberglass layer
• Thickness: 14mm
• Grip: 4⅛″
• Dimensions: 16.5″ × 7.35″ (elongated)
• Swingweight: Not manufacturer-published
• Certification: USAP approved, PBCoR .43; UPA-A provisionally approved

Also Consider: Six Zero Black Diamond Power 16mm — The Semi-Elongated Step

Not every reach buyer needs the full shape. The Black Diamond Power measures 16.3″ × 7.5–7.7″ — a semi-elongated paddle, and described as exactly that here: it is not a 16.5″ paddle and this guide does not round it up into one. What it offers is a middle step: some added reach and leverage over a standard shape, a textured raw composite face on a 16mm honeycomb core, and — rare air in this category — a manufacturer-published swingweight of 114 (Six Zero), at 8.1 oz ±0.2 with a 5.5″ handle, USA Pickleball registered. If the published 118 and 115–123 figures above price the full shape out of your hands game, this is the honest way to buy part of the reach at part of the cost.

The Elongated Trade-Off, With Numbers: Reach and Leverage vs Swingweight and Sweet Spot

What the extra half-inch buys

The gains are geometric and real. A 16.5″ paddle reaches balls a 16″ paddle watches — volleys at full stretch, overheads contacted higher, serves and drives hit through a longer lever that converts the same swing into more tip speed. The longer handles (5.5″ to 5.875″ across this list) give a two-handed backhand room to exist, which is a genuine shot added, not a marginal one. For a baseliner or a banger, the ledger’s credit side is why the shape dominates the advanced power game.

What it costs, in published figures

The debit side is now printable, because two makers publish it: swingweight 118 on the ERA Power, and 115–123 across the TKO-C range — the highest published swingweights anywhere on this site, against figures like 108–114 for standard shapes in our other guides. Swingweight is rotational load: it is the tax on every start, stop and redirection, and it is paid most visibly in kitchen-line exchanges, where the elongated player’s hands arrive a fraction later. Static weight does not warn you about this — the ERA Power’s 7.9–8.4 oz looks ordinary on a scale — which is why this guide insists on the published swingweight wherever it exists, and on demoing the shape’s quickness, not just its reach, wherever it does not. Our guide to pickleball paddle weight separates static weight, swingweight and balance in full.

The sweet spot moves and shrinks

Narrowing a face to ~7.5″ while lengthening it concentrates the best-responding zone higher and smaller: elongated sweet spots sit above centre, toward the tip, and cover less area than a widebody’s. Off-centre contact — especially toward the throat and the sides — gives back less. The category’s engineering answers are visible across this list: foam edge walls (JOOLA), foam perimeters (Selkirk), a solid core’s even response (Gearbox), published twist weight (Paddletek), and full-foam evenness (CRBN) all exist to widen the band around that smaller zone. Judge an elongated paddle by that surrounding band, not by its best square inch.

Leverage and the two-handed backhand

One credit on the ledger deserves its own accounting, because for a growing share of players it is the deciding one: the elongated category is where the two-handed backhand lives. A second hand on the handle adds stability precisely where the elongated shape is weakest — the long lever wants to rotate on off-centre contact, and two hands resist that rotation while adding their own leverage to drives and rolls. The handle lengths in this list (5.5″ to 5.875″ among the two-hand-friendly builds) exist for that grip; the TKO-C’s 5.25″ is the exception that marks the shape’s one-handed end. If your backhand is already two-handed, the trade-off section above should be re-read with that in mind: part of the swingweight cost is refunded by the second hand’s control, and the reach buys the shot its room. If your backhand is one-handed and wrist-led, no such refund applies — the full published cost is yours.

Who should not buy this shape

Players whose points are won in fast hands exchanges at the kitchen line, players managing a sore forearm (the load section of our tennis elbow guide explains the swingweight side of that), and beginners still grooving contact — the smaller, higher sweet spot taxes exactly the consistency they are building. The shape is a specialist’s trade: reach and leverage, bought deliberately. The semi-elongated alternate above exists for everyone who wants the trade at half price.

Buying Guide: Choosing Inside the Shape

Core thickness splits the list in two

The 16mm builds (Perseus Pro IV, ERA Power, GX2) pair the shape’s leverage with dwell — drives with margin, resets that survive. The thin builds (both 12.7mm picks) pair it with hand speed and pop, betting your exchanges can handle a smaller margin. The CRBN’s 14mm of foam sits between, by behaviour rather than number. Decide which failure you would rather avoid — floating resets or late hands — and the thickness chooses itself.

Handle length is the second decision

Two-handed backhand: start at 5.5″ and look at the Engage’s 5.875″ and Selkirk’s 5.8″ first. One-handed and compact: the TKO-C’s 5.25″ wastes nothing. Grip runs small in this category (Gearbox’s 4″ is the extreme) — measure your hand and budget an overgrip build-up where the stock grip starts small.

Singles reach and doubles reach are different purchases

In singles, the elongated case is close to automatic: the court is wide, the passing shots are long, and the extra reach and overhead leverage are used on nearly every rally — most of the singles field plays this shape for exactly those reasons. In doubles, the rally compresses to the kitchen line, where the shape’s costs (hand speed, a smaller blocking face) are charged on every exchange and its credits (reach on lobs and stretch volleys, drive leverage) are collected less often. Doubles players buy elongated deliberately, for a specific asset — a two-handed backhand, a driving third shot, a tall player’s overhead — rather than as a default. If you play both, the 16mm builds split the difference best: their dwell keeps the doubles soft game intact while the shape serves the singles court.

Check certification for your exact model

Every pick here is USA Pickleball approved, but read the fine print where it exists: the GX2’s UPA-A certification excludes the Pro Main Draw and MLP Pro in the USA, and the CRBN’s UPA-A status is provisional. This category also carries the sport’s most famous delisting — the earlier Gearbox Pro Power Elongated — as a standing reminder to check your exact model and thickness against the current list before entering anything sanctioned.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are elongated paddles legal?

Yes — the shape itself is fully legal, within the size limits every paddle must meet: USA Pickleball’s equipment rules cap paddle length at 17 inches, with the combined length plus width not exceeding 24 inches. Every pick in this guide complies — the 16.5″ × 7.5″ builds sit exactly at the 24-inch combined limit, and the narrower GX2 (7⅜″ wide) and CRBN (7.35″) sit just under it. What makes any individual paddle legal for sanctioned play is its presence on the approved list in its exact model and thickness, which is a certification check, not a shape check.

Do elongated paddles have a bigger sweet spot?

No — smaller, and higher. The old version of this guide’s meta description claimed the opposite, and it has been corrected wherever it appeared. A longer, narrower face concentrates the best-responding zone toward the tip and covers less area than a widebody’s. Modern elongated builds compensate with foam perimeters, edge walls, solid or foam cores and published twist weights that widen the playable band around that zone — judge them on that band.

Are elongated paddles lighter?

Not in the way that matters. Their static weights are ordinary (7.7–8.4 oz across this list), and their published swingweights — 118 on the ERA Power, 115–123 on the TKO-C — are the highest in the game, because length is leverage and leverage is rotational load. The old meta’s “lightweight” claim for this shape was wrong and has been removed. If light-in-the-swing is your priority, our lightweight guide is the honest list for it.

Elongated or standard shape — which is better for a two-handed backhand?

Elongated, on handle length alone: a two-handed backhand needs 5.5″ or more of handle to fit both hands without crowding, and this list runs to 5.875″ (Engage) and 5.8″ (Selkirk). Standard shapes with long handles exist, but the elongated category is where the long handles live — just confirm the grip circumference suits both hands, and expect to trade some one-handed quickness for the second hand’s stability.

Why did the old list name the same paddle twice?

Because it was assembled carelessly — the Vulcan V550 appeared as both the third and sixth picks, in a list that also included a non-elongated paddle and an entry naming no model. All ten entries have been replaced in this rebuild; the six picks above are six distinct, current, manufacturer-verified elongated paddles, plus one honestly-labelled semi-elongated alternate.

Is an elongated paddle good for beginners?

Generally not the first paddle to learn on: the smaller, higher sweet spot punishes the off-centre contact beginners make most, and the swingweight slows the hand-speed habits the kitchen game is built on. It becomes a good choice once contact is consistent and a player knows what they are buying — reach and leverage for a driving or two-handed game. The semi-elongated alternate is the gentler on-ramp if the shape appeals early.

The Bottom Line

The old version of this guide described the shape backwards — broader, lighter, larger sweet spot — duplicated one of its picks, and included a paddle that was not elongated at all. This rebuild fixes the description and the list together: six distinct, current elongated builds — the Perseus Pro IV as the benchmark, the ERA Power with its published spin and published 118 swingweight, the solid-core GX2, the thin and fully-published TKO-C, the long-handled Engage Pro1, and the foam-core CRBN Genesis 1 — plus a semi-elongated alternate labelled at its true 16.3″. The trade the shape offers has not changed; now it is priced in the open: reach and leverage, against a smaller, higher sweet spot and the heaviest swings in the sport. Buy it for the game you actually play, and it is the strongest shape in pickleball. Buy it on the old description, and you have purchased the opposite of what you wanted.