Open your dominant hand, fingers straight and held together. Find the bottom lateral crease of your palm — the lowest of the horizontal lines that run across it — and measure from there straight up to the tip of your ring finger. Round to the nearest eighth of an inch. That single measurement drives every answer below.
| Hand measurement | Grip size | European code |
|---|---|---|
| 4" | 4" | L0 |
| 4 1/8" | 4 1/8" | L1 |
| 4 1/4" | 4 1/4" | L2 |
| 4 3/8" | 4 3/8" | L3 |
| 4 1/2" | 4 1/2" | L4 |
| 4 5/8" | 4 5/8" | L5 |
| Height | Grip circumference |
|---|---|
| under 5′3″ | 4" · 10.2 cm |
| 5′3″ to 5′8″ | 4 1/4" · 10.8 cm |
| over 5′8″ | 4 1/2" · 11.4 cm |
| Code | Relative size | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| G4 | Thickest of the three | Mostly the heavier 3U frames in the Yonex range |
| G5 | Middle | Offered across every weight — the safest default |
| G6 | Thinnest | Offered across most frames |
Grip sizing has no governing body — no rulebook specifies it — so these are manufacturer and specialist-retailer charts, named so you can check them. Where the sources disagree (pickleball versus tennis on the finger test) we keep them separate instead of averaging them into something nobody published.
Open your dominant hand with the fingers straight and together, then measure from the bottom lateral crease of your palm — the lowest of the horizontal lines running across it — to the tip of your ring finger. For tennis, padel and pickleball that measurement in inches is the grip circumference you want.
Take the smaller one. An overgrip adds roughly 1/16 of an inch and a heat-shrink sleeve about 1/8, so you can always grow a handle. You cannot shrink one without stripping it back to the pallet.
Selkirk says explicitly that it does not, and their chart is built on the ruler measurement and a height band instead. The finger test is a reasonable sanity check on a tennis racket, where the handle is longer and the grip changes are bigger; it is not the pickleball method.
There is no published answer. G4, G5 and G6 are manufacturer codes in which a higher number means a thinner handle, and Yonex’s own catalogue lists the codes without a circumference. They are also not comparable between brands. Because of that, this tool tells you what the codes mean and how players build handles up with overgrips, rather than inventing a millimetre figure.
Effectively no. Almost every padel racket ships with a single, deliberately slim handle, and players adjust it with overgrips — one for most people, two for larger hands. So the useful output for padel is a target circumference, not a size code.
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