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Dropped from 254 cm. Back up to 135–145.

The AIFA Yalla padel ball. Born in the UAE, now on South African courts.

FIP approvedTour gradeStandard pressure

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Yalla is how the Gulf says let’s go. It’s the name on our first ball, and the only instruction you need when the tube cracks open.

Listed by the FIP. Next to the names you know.

Every ball used in FIP events, Premier Padel and the CUPRA FIP Tour has to pass the federation’s lab test first. The AIFA Yalla Ball passed on 3 December 2025. Its approval runs to December 2027.

How the FIP tests a ball

FIP approved balls, 2025–2027 list (extract)

  1. Adidas
  2. AIFA Yalla Ball approved 03.12.2025 expires 03.12.2027
  3. Babolat
  4. Bullpadel
  5. Dunlop
  6. Head
  7. Nox
  8. Wilson

Source: FIP ball certification document, padelfip.com. Other makers shown by name only.

Printed on every tube.

The same window the FIP sets for its standard ball. A ball outside any one of them is not a padel ball the federation will accept.

Mass
56–59.4g
Diameter
6.35–6.77cm
Rebound from 2.54 m
135–145cm
Forward deformation
0.56–0.74cm
Return deformation
0.80–1.08cm
Build
Rockrubber core · wool and nylon felt · pressurised · yellow

Take it apart.

  1. Roll it over. One sealed sphere of felt. Turn it in your hand and the white seam runs all the way round.
  2. Peel the felt. Two dog-bone panels of wool and nylon, cut to interlock like a baseball cover and glued round the core. AIFA on one, ايفا on the other.
  3. Open the core. Rockrubber, hollow and pressurised. The wall gives 0.56–0.74 cm under load and springs straight back. The air inside is the bounce.
  4. Put it back. Rubber, air, felt. That’s the whole ball, and every one answers to the same five numbers.
Drop one yourself in the lab
The Yalla taken apart: two felt panels lifted off a hollow rubber core that is split open
  • Felt panel · wool and nylon
  • Seam · where the panels meet
  • Second panel · the ايفا side
  • Rockrubber wall
  • Pressurised air · the bounce

One box. Months of games.

The AIFA Yalla box of 24 tubes

Yalla Box

24 tubes · 72 balls

R 3 000

Yalla Mini Box

6 tubes · 18 balls

Price on request

Coming soon online

How many tubes do you need?

One tube a game for a four. Many club players open a new tube every two or three games; set your own habit.

6.5 tubes a month

A 24-tube box lasts about 3.7 months. That’s R 15.63 each per game.

“South Africa is experiencing a real boom with almost 390 facilities and more than 1,200 courts installed in just a few years.”

International Padel Federation, World Padel Report 2025
Courts in South Africa
1 200+
Padel venues in South Africa
~390
Players worldwide
35million+
Clubs in SA & Zambia stocking the Yalla
24

Court, venue and player figures: FIP World Padel Report 2025 (padelfip.com).

Speak padel.

Six shots you’ll hear called on every court. Pick one and watch a Yalla play it, glass and all.

Bandeja

The overhead you play with slice to keep your place at the net. Not a smash: it lands deep and dies off their back glass, so they can’t attack it.

Víbora

The bandeja’s nastier cousin, “the viper”. More pace and side-spin, so it skids low off the glass and is hard to dig out.

Por tres

A flat smash hit so hard it bounces up and out over the 3 m wall. Point over before anyone can chase it.

Globo

The lob. Up over the pair at the net and deep, so they have to turn and chase it off their back glass. In padel the lob is an attacking shot.

Bajada

Their lob gets over you and comes off your back glass high. Let it come down, then attack it on the way down.

Chiquita

A soft ball dipped at the feet of the players at the net. It pulls them out of shape and opens the court.

On the shelf at 24 clubs in South Africa and Zambia.

And 20 more in the UAE, where it was born. Buy a tube at the club, or a box online.

All clubs
Qurtuba Padel — Linbro Park Love Padel LoneHill — Fourways / Sandton 10by20 KCC — Killarney Country Club The Court @ Grasslands — Benoni Net Set Padel — Sandton City Padel Rosso — Benoni N12 Padel — Benoni 10by2 — Lenasia Balwin Padel — Thaba Balwin Padel — Waterfall City Ormonde Padel Club — Ormonde Padel Grail — Roshnee / online 10by20 — Ormonde Rooftop Padel — Norwood 10by20 Three Rivers — Vereeniging Court Royale — Lenasia Sunrise Padel Club — Laudium Padel @ Syringa Park — Krugersdorp World Of Padel — Menlyn / online ProPadel Craighall — Randburg ProPadel Greek Sporting Club — Germiston Blue Island Padel Arena — Bedfordview
Gauteng, plotted. Dots sit on the area, not the door. Also: Bas Padel Ferrum, Newcastle · 10by20, Zambia

Run a club? Stock the Yalla.

Box pricing for club shops, coaches and leagues. Tell us how many courts you run and we’ll come back to you.

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