Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 Review (2025)

Name: Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0
Brand: Drop Shot
Price: 89.95 EUR
Availability: InStock

The Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 is the balanced member of Drop Shot's entry-comfort shelf: a Soft EVA core under a 3K face in a 360 to 370 g spread, scoring an even-tempered 72/70 split with comfort 72 and tolerance 72 keeping everything kind.

Reviewed by Álvaro Serrano

76Our score

Strongest

Value80
Power72
Handling72
Control70
Sweet spot72
Comfort72

No brand pays for a score. Every racket is scored with the same published method. Better than 24% of the 518 rackets we have scored.

Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 padel racket, Round shape

Round · 360–370 g · 3K Carbon · EVA Soft Low Density · Head-light · Advanced

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Our verdict

What we loved

Four things it does better than most.

Value 80 with weight options at entry money

Kind and even everywhere (72 across the board)

Soft EVA sustains the learning curve

A starter frame that can grow

Worth knowing

Three things to know before you buy.

No standout strength anywhere

Athletic improvers will outgrow it

The crowded family: compare the week's prices

Not for you if

No standout strength anywhere
Athletic improvers will outgrow it
The crowded family: compare the week's prices

Inside the frame

A 370 g round with a 3K Carbon face over a soft core, balanced head-light, built for advanced players.

Shape: Round
Weight: 360–370 g
Face: 3K Carbon
Core: EVA Soft Low Density
Balance: Head-light
Level: Advanced

How the core feelsSoft

Soft
Medium
Hard

About this core

A EVA soft core. 44% of the rackets we have scored sit in this band. Read from the core until we rate firmness ourselves.

The review

Handling stays prompt (72). Value 80 does the closing. Weight options at entry money remain rare and welcome. For beginners and improvers who want one frame that is kind everywhere, keen enough to grow with, and priced like a starter, the Explorer Pro Comfort is one of the segment's most complete answers.

Highlights

Top 13% for value, and in the bottom quarter for control.

Both are true at once, and between them they are the whole review. Our score is better than 25% of the 518 rackets we hold a score for.

The face3K CarbonMore in Inside the frame

The balanceHead-lightMore in Inside the frame

Value80 · better than 78%

Sweet spot72 · better than 58%

Comfort72 · better than 55%

Handling72 · better than 41%

Power72 · better than 27%

Our score76 · better than 25%

Control70 · better than 24%

Against the rest

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The adidas Metalbone Ctrl wins 5 of the 6 scores. This racket costs €81 less.

76This racket Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0

Control · Round

Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0

Value first, then power.

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Control · Round

adidas Metalbone Ctrl

More control, by 20.

€216€39045% offRead our review

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Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0

€135

adidas Metalbone Ctrl

€216

PowerControlSweet spotComfortHandlingValue

This racketadidas Metalbone Ctrl

72Power+678

70Control+2090

72Sweet spot+476

72Comfort+476

72Handling+375

80+8Value72

€135Price€81 apart€216

370 gWeightThis racket is 10 g heavier360 g

SoftFeelSoft

Feel is the core's rated hardness (estimated from the core material where there is no rating), then the face.

Price

Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 · at PadelProShop

€135

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Average€141

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The line

Two years of the Explorer.

Not necessarily this one. The Soft W scores 77 at €116, €19 less than this racket's 76 at €135.

20265 versions · 76 to 82

Highest scoreMost powerMost comfortable

Pro Attack 2.082

Soft W77

Pro Attack Soft77

Pro Comfort 2.076

9.076

20253 versions · 75 to 76

This racketBest value

Pro Comfort 1.076

Pro Control 1.076

8.075

Rankings

Top 5 in the one list it is in.

4The Explorer lineof the 8 on the list

Questions

The Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 is built for Advanced players, scoring 76/100 overall in our testing.

The Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 is priced from €135 at PadelProShop. See the price comparison above for the latest deals across every retailer we track.

The Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 has a round-shaped head, which keeps the weight lower in the frame. It is built for control and touch over raw power, and newer players usually find it easier than a diamond.

Yes — use the year selector above to see how this year's Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 compares to earlier editions.

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Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0 Review (2025)

Our verdict

Four things it does better than most.

Three things to know before you buy.

Not for you if

Inside the frame

The review

Highlights

Top 13% for value, and in the bottom quarter for control.

Against the rest

The adidas Metalbone Ctrl wins 5 of the 6 scores. This racket costs €81 less.

The Bullpadel Hack 04 Hybrid Cloud wins 3 of the 6 scores. This racket costs €20 less.

The Oxdog Hyper Tour X 2.0 wins 5 of the 6 scores. This racket costs €90 less.

This racket wins 4 of the 6 scores and costs €110 less.

Drop Shot Explorer Pro Comfort 1.0

adidas Metalbone Ctrl

Bullpadel Hack 04 Hybrid Cloud

Oxdog Hyper Tour X 2.0

Babolat Technical Viper 3.0

Price

Our readers pay less at PadelProShop. It is already in the price.

The line

Two years of the Explorer.

20265 versions · 76 to 82

20253 versions · 75 to 76

Rankings

Top 5 in the one list it is in.

Questions

Rankings by style

By level

By shape

By price