{"id":1215,"date":"2026-10-29T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:04","slug":"legal-ball-specs-26-40-holes-under-1-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Legal Ball Specs: 26\u201340 Holes, Under 1 oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"A Legal Pickleball Has 26 to 40 Holes\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fILhSUVu9MY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Aylex walks the USA Pickleball Equipment Standards: a legal ball needs 26\u201340 circular holes (section 2.D.8), weighs 0.78\u20130.935 oz (always under 1 oz), and measures 2.87\u20132.97 inches across with tight out-of-round limits.<\/p>\n<p>Maker name\/logo must be printed or embossed. Handy checklist before you argue whether a practice ball is \u201clegal enough\u201d for league.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Holes: 26\u201340, circular<\/li>\n<li>Weight: 0.78\u20130.935 oz (&lt; 1 oz)<\/li>\n<li>Diameter: 2.87\u20132.97 in; logo required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Spot-check your bag balls: hole count + printed logo<\/li>\n<li>For league nights, only pack balls that meet the hole\/weight band<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aylex walks the USA Pickleball Equipment Standards: a legal ball needs 26\u201340 circular holes (section 2.D.8), weighs 0.78\u20130.935 oz (always under 1 oz), and measures 2.87\u20132.97 inches across with tight out-of-round limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562],"tags":[921,1278,1277,486,1226],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentals","tag-aylex","tag-ball-specs","tag-equipment","tag-rules","tag-usa-pickleball"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/04-overhead-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}