US padel hits 1,000 courts as growth accelerates

Privé at THesis was identified as the 1,000th padel court to open in the United States, a marker that pushes the sport into a different phase of growth. One industry headline called the moment one where the boom “changes scale,” and that is now the real story, not the round number itself.

The court count matters because U.S. padel is no longer clustered around a few high-profile openings. Privé Padel has planted itself in Montauk and at Thesis Hotel in Coral Gables, where the first padel court in that city opened, showing how the sport is moving into destination clubs, hotel settings and urban leisure properties at the same time. That mix suggests the market is spreading across different formats rather than relying on one model to carry the expansion.

The player base is growing with it. US Padel says the sport has surpassed one million players in the United States, while a September 4, 2025 report from padel-22 put U.S. market growth at 51% year on year. Those figures help explain why court construction has accelerated so quickly, and why investors, operators and local partners are treating padel as more than a short-lived novelty.

The next question is not whether more courts can be built. It is whether clubs can keep them busy. A facility can host social play, ladders, leagues, corporate events and junior sessions, but all of that requires coaching, scheduling and programming that many fast-growing racquet sports only discover once the first wave of demand arrives. In a market that is still young, the bottlenecks shift from concrete and glass to utilization, staffing and retention.

That is also why the once-bold idea of 30,000 U.S. courts by 2030 is starting to look doubtful. The sport still has room to expand, but the 1,000-court milestone shows the conversation has already moved beyond awareness. The pressure now is on operators to prove that the courts filling up hot markets can support repeat play, not just opening-day crowds, as padel competes for space in an already crowded U.S. racquet-sports economy.