Adidas Metalbone Carbon 3.3 Padel Racket vs Bullpadel Vertex 04 Woman Padel Racket — Padel Rackets Comparison UK 2026

Two genuine pro-tier weapons rather than badge engineering — now at £108 and £132, mid-market money rather than the flagship prices they once carried. The Adidas Metalbone HRD is Ale Galan's signature: tubular carbon faces, SpinBlade core, and a swing weight that demands a developed bandeja and a reliable smash technique. The Bullpadel Vertex 04 Woman is the women's edition of Paquito's diamond, slightly trimmed in mass but with the same Carbon Tube frame and MultiEva core, marginally easier to wield over a three-set match.

The saving used to sit with the Bullpadel; now it's the Adidas that's about £25 cheaper. Buy the Metalbone HRD if you can already finish points overhead, you're competing seriously, and you want the most aggressive sweet-spot positioning on the market — it's now the cheaper route to that. Otherwise go for the Vertex 04 Woman if you want pro-level power without the upper-body strain, and you'd rather a frame that won't punish a slightly later contact point; that friendliness now costs about £25 extra, which is fair. Stepping into the Metalbone with average overhead technique is still genuinely counterproductive, whatever it costs.