Ballers Padel Clubs: Philadelphia, Boston, DTLA 2026

Ballers runs padel at two of its three clubs today: three indoor courts in Philadelphia and three outdoor courts on the Boston waterfront. Four more are drawn into a former Macy's in downtown Los Angeles, where the opening has slipped past two announced windows.

Ballers gets real mainstream coverage — Bisnow, the LA Times, Sportico — and almost none of it tells a padel player how many courts there are and whether they are open. Here is that version.

The social sports club putting padel in a power plant and a former Macy's

Ballers sells itself as a social sports club, not a padel club: racquet courts, golf simulators, turf and a bar under one roof, open to the public rather than members only. Padel is one line on a longer menu — both the appeal and the catch. Every site so far is an adaptive reuse of a big dead box: a power plant, a pier, a department store.

Philadelphia — the first one

The first club opened in Fishtown in mid-September 2025, after a summer pop-up and a July target that slipped. The padel sits on the second floor of The Battery, a former PECO power plant: three indoor courts by Spanish court maker MejorSet, sharing roughly 55,000 square feet with six pickleball courts, two squash courts, four golf simulators and a turf field.

Court time is quoted per person on a four-player court — $27 an hour at peak, $20 off-peak, so a peak hour of doubles costs the group about $108. Racquet rental is $10, open play $25 to $35. Membership runs $120 to $499 a month; you do not need one.

One claim to take with salt: Ballers advertises "the highest ceilings in the whole damn country." We hold no verified ceiling height for it, and two Boston clubs alone advertise 35-foot and 40-foot ceilings. Brand copy, not measurement.

Ballers is one of five open padel clubs in Philadelphia, 14 courts between them — full list in our Philadelphia padel guide, or browse Pennsylvania.

Boston Seaport — three outdoor courts on a six-month clock

The Seaport club opened on 15 April 2026: a 30,000-square-foot open-air yard on Pier 4 with three padel courts, five pickleball courts and a food truck instead of a restaurant. Padel is $40 per person at peak, $25 off-peak, racquet rental $10, open play from $45. Courts run 7am to 10pm weekdays, 8am to 10pm weekends, and memberships are sold by season as well as by month — $600 or $1,000 for the season.

Why the padel courts share a yard with winter ice

The season is in Ballers' own small print: mid-April through mid-October. On 7 November 2026 the yard turns back into a rink — synthetic ice, igloos, firepits. So if you want outdoor padel in Boston this year, you are in the closing days of it; the next window opens mid-April 2027. Through the winter the indoor clubs carry the load: PADELHUB with six courts, Bosse Sports with four.

About that "Boston's first padel courts" line

Ballers' announcement calls these the first padel courts in Boston, and much of the coverage repeated it. Our directory says otherwise: PADELHUB opened a six-court indoor club in October 2025, six months earlier, and Bosse Sports — formerly Sensa Padel, in Hyde Park — predates that. The narrower claim holds: these are Boston's first outdoor padel courts, the rarer thing anyway in a city that spends four months under snow. More in our Boston guide and across Massachusetts.

DTLA — four courts at The Bloc, and a date that keeps moving

The third club takes over more than 100,000 square feet of the former Macy's at The Bloc on 7th Street. Reporting at the time of the lease described four padel courts against roughly 17 or 18 pickleball courts (sources disagree), five golf simulators, two soccer pitches, two bars and a recovery zone — with the city granting a change of use so the rooftop parking deck can carry courts.

The date is the problem. The original target was the second quarter of 2026; by August 2025 the LA Times had it at late summer 2026. Both have passed. Today the Ballers site lists Los Angeles as "(soon)" with the words "You're next." and no date — so we keep it flagged as opening soon rather than publish a date nobody has announced.

Whenever it lands, it will be downtown LA's first padel. Every open court in the city sits west or north of there — Padel Up in Century City, Padel Up Culver City and The Padel Courts on Sunset. See the LA guide and our California round-up.

Who's behind it

Agassi, Blitzer and the 50-club ambition

Ballers was founded by David Gutstadt and Amanda Potter, both former Equinox executives, with Gutstadt also behind Philadelphia's Fitler Club. A $20 million Series A led by Sharp Alpha and RHC Group brought in Andre Agassi, 76ers and Devils co-owner David Blitzer, Kim Clijsters, Sloane Stephens and pickleball world number three Connor Garnett.

They have talked about 50 locations in seven to ten years — stated ambition, not a plan of record. Three sites, two with padel on the ground, is where it stands. It fits the pattern in celebrities and athletes betting on US padel.

What "social sports club" means for a padel player

Padel as one amenity among seventeen pickleball courts

Look at the ratios. Philadelphia: three padel courts to six pickleball. Boston: three to five. DTLA as planned: four to seventeen or eighteen. Padel takes the smaller share everywhere, and in Los Angeles by a factor of four.

That cuts both ways. Pickleball volume and bar revenue pay for the building, which is why padel exists at all on addresses a padel-only operator could not fill. The cost is three courts instead of six: tighter peak windows, fewer open-play levels, a shallower pool of regulars. Same economics as why country clubs are adding padel.

Where this goes next

Two open clubs, six padel courts between them, four more planned in Los Angeles with no date attached. Philadelphia is the year-round one; Boston is very good and nearly out of season; LA is worth watching for an announcement rather than trusting an old one. The rest of the pipeline is in our Q4 2026 watchlist and Northeast update.