Where to Play Padel in Key Biscayne, FL (2026 Guide)
Where to Play Padel in Key Biscayne, FL (2026 Guide)
Six courts, two private clubs, and five more coming to the island's front door
Padel on the Island
Key Biscayne has been a racquet address for four decades. The Tennis Center at Crandon Park hosted the Miami Open from 1987 until the tournament decamped for Hard Rock Stadium in 2019, and the county facility still runs more than two dozen public courts at the south end of Crandon Boulevard, with programming handled by Cliff Drysdale Tennis. What the island did not have, for almost all of that history, was padel.
That arrived in stages. The Ritz-Carlton's Cliff Drysdale Racquet Garden installed the island's first three padel courts. The Ocean Club followed in January 2024, converting a single Har-Tru tennis court into three padel courts of its own. Six courts, two clubs — and both of them private, which is the part that trips up nearly everyone searching for a game here.
The next chapter is already underway. In 2025 the Village Council voted 5-0 to approve a five-court padel facility on the island's Entry Block, and it will be the first padel venue on Key Biscayne that isn't attached to a resort or a residential association.
Here's what's playable today, what's coming, and where to go if neither door opens for you.
The Two Clubs With Padel Courts Today
Cliff Drysdale Tennis - The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne
These three courts were the first padel courts anywhere on Key Biscayne, and they sit inside what Cliff Drysdale Tennis bills as the largest tennis and padel venue at any Ritz-Carlton in the world. The courts are aluminum-framed with LED lighting and premium turf, dropped into an established tennis garden — which means the padel program inherited a staffed pro shop, a full teaching roster, and an existing clinic culture on day one instead of building all of that from scratch.
That matters more than it sounds. Padel here isn't a novelty amenity bolted onto a hotel lobby; it's actually programmed. Guests book private lessons, two-hour group clinics with a three-person minimum, and organized round robins through the racquet desk, and the resort's Cliff Drysdale Experience arm runs multi-day padel camps for players who want to build a whole trip around court time. The courts launched at a $15 day rate including a can of balls — genuinely cheap for resort padel, though worth confirming with the pro shop before you plan around it.
The catch is access. This is a resort-and-member facility, not a walk-in club. If you're staying on property you're in. If you're not, you're calling ahead.
Courts: 3 | Type: Outdoor | Rating: 4.4★
The Ocean Club
The Ocean Club is a private residential community on Crandon Boulevard, and its racquet operation runs the most serious padel program on Key Biscayne. In January 2024 the club pulled one Har-Tru tennis court out of service and put three padel courts in its place — a trade that tells you exactly how fast demand moved here. The tennis center now runs seven Har-Tru courts alongside the three padel courts, with a pro shop and a clubhouse lounge attached.
The program is led by Egle Petrauskaite, a former US No. 1 who spent six years as tennis program director at the Ritz-Carlton down the road before moving into padel full time. Under her the club has run men's, women's, and junior events, including the first junior padel tournament held on the island — the kind of programming that turns a set of courts into an actual player base rather than a nice amenity. Members book courts and clinics through OCCA Racquet Sports, which lists sessions by level.
Access is limited to residents and members of the association. There is no guest-pass route in from outside the community.
Courts: 3 | Type: Outdoor | Rating: 4.7★
Coming Soon: Five Courts at the Entry Block
The most consequential padel news on Key Biscayne isn't at either existing club. It's at 1222 and 1224 Crandon Boulevard — the "Entry Block," the parcel you pass the moment you come off the Rickenbacker Causeway, once home to a La Carreta and a neighborhood bar.
The Village Council approved the site plan 5-0: two commercial retail and office buildings plus five padel courts on a 1.42-acre site. Three of those courts will be indoor and air-conditioned, which is a real distinction in a market where nearly every court within ten miles is open to the sky and August is August. Two more sit outside. The plan also carves out a small café and a pro shop within roughly 5,300 square feet of built space, and the indoor courts are designed to sit out of view from Crandon Boulevard.
The developer is David Martin of Terra Group, who is leasing the parcel and building the padel complex alongside a sales office for 301 Ocean Drive — the 56-residence condominium that Terra and Fortune International Group are planning on the former Silver Sands Beach Resort site after a $205 million acquisition. The condo itself isn't scheduled to break ground until late 2026. The padel facility comes first.
What hasn't been announced is the access model. A padel club at the island's front door, attached to a condo sales operation, could land anywhere between fully public and members-only. The Key Biscayne Independent and Islander News have both followed the project closely and are the places to watch. We'll update this guide and the Key Biscayne club listings when terms are public.
How to Actually Get on a Court
The straight answer: as of August 2026 there is no pay-and-play padel on Key Biscayne. Both clubs are private. That's genuinely unusual for Florida, where padel has mostly arrived as commercial clubs selling court time by the hour, and it's the single biggest surprise for people searching for courts here.
The realistic paths:
- Stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Resort guests get the padel courts plus the full lesson and clinic program. It's the only dependable way for a visitor to play on the island.
- Know a member. Both clubs run guest access at the member's discretion. At The Ocean Club especially, a resident bringing you on is the route.
- Book a camp. The Cliff Drysdale padel camps at the Ritz are open to outside booking and bundle court time, coaching, and round robins — the closest thing to an open program on Key Biscayne.
- Wait for the Entry Block. If those five courts open with public booking, the island's padel math changes completely.
- Drive off-island. Which, for most players, is the real answer.
The Closest Public Courts to Key Biscayne
Every club below sells court time to anyone, and every one is roughly a 15-to-25-minute drive over the Rickenbacker Causeway depending on how the traffic is behaving:
- Ace Padel Coconut Grove — 5 outdoor courts at 3793 Grand Ave. The nearest public padel to the island and the natural default for anyone living on the Key. More in our Coral Gables and South Miami guide.
- Brickell Soccer and Padel — 2 outdoor courts at 301 SW 8th St, straight up the causeway into Brickell.
- Reserve Padel — 6 outdoor courts at the Miami Seaplane Base on the MacArthur Causeway, and one of the more polished operations in the county. Covered in our Brickell and Downtown Miami guide.
- Padel X — 10 outdoor courts at 141 NE 13th Terrace downtown, one of the largest court counts anywhere in Miami.
Willing to go a little further? Miami Beach adds several more clubs including indoor courts, and our Florida padel guide covers the rest of the state.
The Short Version
Key Biscayne has six padel courts and none of them are public. The Ritz-Carlton is the way in for a visitor; The Ocean Club is the way in for a resident. The Entry Block project is the one to watch — five courts, three of them indoor and air-conditioned, at the island's gateway, with an access model still to be announced.
Until that opens, the Rickenbacker Causeway stays part of most islanders' padel routine. You can check current listings and availability for every club on the island on the Key Biscayne courts page.
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