Three Rackets Broomfield: 5 Padel Courts Open Sept 21

Broomfield has been the stretch of US-36 you drive through to get to padel — Boulder courts to the north, Denver courts to the south, nothing in between. That changes on Monday, September 21.

A 34,000 sq ft racket club lands between Denver and Boulder

Three Rackets opens at 830 Hoyt St. #150 in Broomfield with a soft opening on September 21, 2026, followed by grand opening festivities later in the fall. The building holds 13 indoor courts across three sports — five padel, five pickleball and three squash — which the club says makes it one of very few venues anywhere running all three under one roof.

The founders come from squash, not padel. Brothers Mark and Chris Fuller both played professionally — Mark reached a career-high world ranking of No. 118 and later served as director of squash and fitness at MetroSquash in Chicago; Chris peaked at No. 89 and won two Professional Squash Association titles. They built the club with co-founder Chris Douglass, and Mark is the CEO. If you noticed the 312 area code on the club's phone number, that's the Chicago lineage showing.

Courts wrap around a central bar and gathering space — the same bet Padel Haus Denver and Racket Social Club Denver have made, where the social floor is the product and the courts are the reason to show up for it.

Five indoor Favaretti courts under 28-foot ceilings

The padel courts are built by Favaretti, the Italian manufacturer that has been picking up US and UK projects steadily in recent years. Three Rackets lists 28-foot ceilings over them.

Why 28 feet matters for the lob and the smash

Ceiling height is the one spec that separates a genuine indoor padel court from a compromised one, and it's the spec American warehouse conversions most often get wrong. International guidance puts the minimum free height at roughly 20 feet (6 m), with something closer to 26 feet (8 m) recommended for serious competition. Plenty of US retrofits land at the bottom of that range or under it.

At 28 feet, the defensive lob — padel's most important shot and the engine of the sport's tactics — actually works. You can float a ball deep enough to push the opposing pair off the net without scraping steel, and the attacking pair can answer with a full overhead or a bandeja at proper extension instead of a cramped, chopped block. Low ceilings quietly flatten padel into a faster, dumber game. This one won't. For the longer version, we broke down how indoor and outdoor padel actually differ.

Not just padel — squash and pickleball too

Squash is the founders' home sport and gets three professional glass courts. Pickleball gets five competition courts finished in CushionX, a cushioned surfacing system the club picked after consulting its own pickleball community and head coach Scott Fliegelman.

For padel players, the upshot is that the club doesn't live or die on padel demand alone — it can fill the building from pickleball and convert some of those players across, usually the easiest conversion in racket sports.

Off the courts: a bar and kitchen, spa-inspired locker rooms, a fitness area, a pro shop with rentals and retail, and a lounge with Wi-Fi.

What it means for the Denver–Boulder corridor

Colorado already had padel at both ends of this corridor. Smash Padel runs five indoor courts in Boulder. Down in the metro, Arenna Denver Padel has six indoor courts, Padel Haus Denver has five, Racket Social Club Denver has nine in Englewood, and Ace Padel Denver has eight more on the way.

What was missing was the middle. Broomfield sits roughly a dozen miles from Boulder and under twenty from downtown Denver, making Three Rackets the first Colorado club genuinely convenient to both — and the first realistic home court for Broomfield, Westminster, Louisville and Superior players who've been driving 25 minutes in one direction or the other. This is a corridor filling in, not a new market appearing. Our guides to padel in Denver and Boulder, Colorado Springs and Parker finally have a link between them, and it fits the broader Mountain West growth story we've tracked all year.

Soft opening September 21, 2026

Doors open at 9 a.m. and close at 9 p.m., seven days a week. Weekday peak hours run 12–1 p.m. and 4–9 p.m.; weekend peak is 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

Padel courts are $100 at peak and $60 off-peak, which works out to $25 and $15 per player in a standard four. Bookings run through PlayByPoint — members get a 14-day advance window, everyone else books inside seven days.

You do not need a membership. If you want one, the club lists Three Rackets Premium at $250/month (free court bookings across all three sports), Pickleball & Squash Premium at $175, Core at $65 (booking window only; court fees still apply) and a Junior tier at $50 for under-18s. Inaugural memberships sold out in August; as of early September a half-price promotion was running under code OPEN50, worth confirming before you sign up.

One more date: an open house on October 10, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with proceeds going to ovarian and breast cancer research.