JOOLA Infinity Balance - Advanced Performance Ping Pong Paddle - Competition Ready - Table Tennis Racket for High-Level Training - Designed to Optimize Spin and Control

Good all around paddle. No complaints. I think it is probably about the best you can get from a pre-assembled paddle.

It only took a practice session with the racket to appreciate the impact of a good racket on the performance of a player. I discovered my old racket was actually working against me. I found every word of a particular review that inspired my buying the racket to be very TRUE. Being a beginner/intermediate player that prefers versatility to over-reliance on a specific tactic, I believe the racket compliments my approach and hope it catapults my tennis performance to higher stages in the near future. I might become an ambassador for the maker (Joola) in the future , who knows?

Good bat for intermediate skilled player that have aggressive style.

The rubber has decent spin and the paddle/blade looks well made and feels nice in the hand. However, this paddle is super slow so you have to work hard to generate speed as this blade and rubber combo is just very s-l-o-o-o-o-w - it won't provide any speed on its own (as all serious blade/rubber combos do). Of course it's a very inexpensive package, yet it's getting reviews as if a decent player would enjoy playing with this setup and that's not true - it's just too slow. This blade/rubber combination is strictly for beginners who are just learning the game. And even for that, it might not be the best choice since having to generate all your own speed causes players to tighten up to hit harder and that's the opposite of what you want.

I have been playing table tennis at a serious club for two years, including taking lessons and playing in tournaments. (I am usually one of the worst players,-better than most people in an office or bar, but not up to serious amateur table tennis standards.) and have been using an off-brand paddle. I saw this was on sale and was available with a green face, and thought I would upgrade. Unfortunately, it was not an upgrade. I only used it one time, but it was both slower and less accurate than my cheap (but pretty good) MAXMVT paddle. And that one day I used it, I felt a wobble in the handle like a loose tooth while i was playing, and next thing you know, one side of the handle came off in my hand. It was just barely glued to the blade. So while Joola is a respected brand name, this paddle is not one of their better products, and quality control is pretty low for the handle to be so weakly glued together.