I needed a racket for some tennis like sport. Since the sport is kind of local to my area, there is only few offers for these rackets, and some have quite high waiting times. Since they are made from plywood anyway, I decided to make it myself.

The melamin plywood I picked was a pain to work with, and I fiddled quite a bit with tape on the wood, drill speeds and everything, to avoid tearing the surface. I still did on the back, propably pushing too hard, so I scraped off the first layer. The clean black melamin would have looked better I think, but at some point I got so annoyed that I'm happy I was able to make it at least look decent.

Nice job! Pickleball?

Close I would say. Never played pickleball so I can't point out the exact differences, but this is for 'Speckbrett'. There is no proper english term (baconboard would be the literal translation I guess lol) and it is very local to the Münsterland - an area in Germany. It is like a cheap tennis I would say - the weird rackets originated from cutting boards. And you play with a tennis ball, not a plastic ball.

I was going to guess platform tennis. It's played with a racket like that and with a tennis ball, but the court is very small and enclosed with the walls in play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_tennis

I hope it serves you well!

some tennis like sport

It's okay OP. We all know what this is for 😏

Did you put another piece of wood underneath to drill into? That should prevent the tearing on the underside

I tried tape only, locating it above one and the same hole on my drill press. But the idea of tightly clamping on a piece of wood came afterwards as well. Will definitely try this - should I ever decide to make another one.

I'm probably weird for this but I think the scuffs in the black backside actually look really pretty with the way the wood-tone scuffs contrast with the black

Pickles and balls are often present

Is that a Speckbrett?

But, how did the balls get above the pickle?

Torsion

I already saw you mom's hiney

It's a different racket.

https://feddit.org/comment/13958973

It is :)

Something I do to avoid blow-out with through-holes like this is to drill a small hole in the center with a twist bit, switch to an appropriately sized forstner bit, drill partway through one side, flip the part over, and finish the hole from the other side. Two entry wounds, no exit wound.