New York hosts Pro Padel League finals at Hammerstein Ballroom

Hammerstein Ballroom gave the Pro Padel League its sharpest American stage yet, and the building looked the part. The league’s City’s Cup Finals closed out the 2025 season in New York City with packed stands, a sold-out crowd on opening day, and championship matches that crowned Miami Padel Club in the men’s draw and New York Atlantics in the women’s.

That mix mattered more than a standard title weekend. A landmark Manhattan venue, a multi-day format, and a full commercial push gave the finals the feel of a league trying to graduate from niche attraction to something closer to mainstream sports property in the United States. The PPL said the event marked its biggest stage yet, and the setting backed that up: the Hammerstein Ballroom is built for spectacle, and the league leaned into that with a final that looked designed for both live atmosphere and sponsor visibility.

The schedule had teeth, too. The PPL announced on September 26, 2025 that the 2025 City’s Cup Finals would run from Thursday, October 16 through Sunday, October 19, with tickets sold through Ticketmaster. On October 14, the league unveiled a full lineup of brand partners, underlining that the weekend was as much a showcase for padel’s commercial ceiling as for the matches themselves. The semifinals on the third day at Hammerstein decided the finalists in both the men’s and women’s competitions before the title matches closed the loop on Sunday.

The league’s championship recap said the New York weekend concluded the 2025 season in New York City, and the results gave the event local weight on the women’s side and a broader North American stamp on the men’s. New York Atlantics ended up on top in the women’s bracket, while Miami Padel Club took the men’s crown. That split reinforced the PPL’s pitch: the finals were not built around one star or one market, but around a full league product with both divisions front and center.

The bigger U.S. test is whether this kind of event can keep repeating at a higher level. The league said its 2025 season featured 10 teams across the United States, Canada and Mexico, with an expanded footprint across North America and into Europe. It then announced a 2026 season with five events across North America, and New York is already set to return at Hammerstein Ballroom from July 9 through July 12, 2026. Public event listings described that return as sold out or close to sold out in parts of the ticket inventory, which is the kind of demand signal a young league wants when it tries to prove padel belongs in the American sports conversation.