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The Changeover: Your February 2026 U.S. Padel Recap

Here's (almost) everything you need to know...

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It's Been Quite the Week For U.S. Collegiate Padel

One bird, two stones...

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Dallas-Fort Worth Padel Scene Starts to Heat Up

Everything Is (About to Get) Bigger in Texas...

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At Long Last, Padel Is Making Its Way to the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Padel will finally bring the sport to Seattle...

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What Americans May Find Shocking About Playing Padel Abroad

A true padel globetrotter weighs in...

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Where to Play Padel on Your Next Trip to Napa or Sonoma

Meet Marin County's new must-stop for viboras before vineyards...

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Yes, Chicago Is Most Definitely Starting to Have a Padel Moment

And I just got to experience it first-hand...

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The Changeover: Your January 2026 U.S. Padel Recap

Here's (almost) everything you need to know...

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Two Factors That Could Make or Break U.S. Padel

This is the ultimate paradox for American padel...

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Boston Seaport Is New U.S. Padel Mini-Mecca

And it's all thanks to these two pioneering padel clubs...

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Privé Padel Looks to Take U.S. Luxury Padel Market to New Heights

First Montauk, then the world...

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Indiana Becomes Latest State to Join the U.S. Padel Movement

NorthPoint Padel is set to introduce the Hoosier State to the sport January 24...

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Should U.S. Padel Clubs Have Pickleball Courts (and Vice-Versa)?

Weighing the pros and cons of having a club with both padel and pickleball courts...

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After Miami, What Will Be the "Second City" of U.S. Padel?

Here are a few top contenders...

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Suddenly, South Carolina Looks to Be New U.S. Padel Hotbed

We may be late to the party, but we're catching up quick!

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Where Can You Play Padel in the U.S. Right Now?

Here's (almost) everywhere you can play padel in the U.S. right now...

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Yes, We Just Saw a Big Year for U.S. Padel

But not for the reasons you might think...

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Finally! Ohio Is Getting Its First Dedicated Padel Club(s)

At long last, two venues in Cincinnati and Cleveland are preparing to put Ohio on the U.S. padel map in 2026

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Abigail McCulloch Helps Elevate Padel to Whole New Level in U.S.

The Alma Padel founder was just honored alongside superstar athletes and entrepreneurs by Forbes...

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33 States Now Have Publicly Accessible Padel Courts. Soon It'll Be 34.

Welcome to the U.S. padel party Rhode Island, Ohio, Utah, and (soon) Montana!

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The Most Anticipated U.S. Padel Club Opening of Early 2025

In our recent poll, there was not just one, but two clear winners...

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Padel Finally Starts to Bloom in the Arizona Desert

The number of publicly accessible padel courts in Arizona just tripled overnight and is set to double again soon.

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Exploring Padel’s Big Potential in the U.S. — and Beyond

A guest commentary from a well-traveled aspiring padel entrepreneur

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The Most Exciting U.S. Padel Trend of Early 2025?

Apparently everything old really is new again...

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World’s #1 Padel Player Announces Surprise Move to Miami

Over the past year or two, Miami has quickly catapulted from the most important padel city in the U.S.

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Padel Alley Paves Way for Big Padel Growth in Arizona

How two brothers and one "padel for all" club in Tucson are helping to finally bring the U.S. padel revolution to Arizona.

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The Race Is Now On to Open Chicago’s First Padel Club

As we initially reported back in early October — and everyone from The Chicago Business Journal to The Chicago Tribune has also taken note of — the padel bug is about to hit Chicago in a major way as several new padel clubs are set to open all around the Windy City in the new year.

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Surprise: El Paso Soon Will Have More Padel Clubs Than Most States

Just this past week, we published an article about how surprising the lack of padel clubs in the Phoenix area is. Perhaps equally surprising, though, is the fact that El Paso, Texas will soon have more padel clubs than states like Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, or Virginia currently do.

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New High-End Concept Looks to Conquer Phoenix Padel Market

As I’ve watched one padel club after another pop up in cities around the U.S., I’ve kept wondering when a large-scale club would finally open in the Phoenix area, which until now has only been home to the one-court Camelback Padel Club (pictured below).

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Free Advice to Padel Club Owners From a Potential Member

While I’m certainly no expert on building, opening, or running padel clubs, I do get a fair number of people asking me for my advice on how they should go about building, opening, and running theirs.

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All These New U.S. Padel Clubs Are Opening Soon

If 2024 was padel’s “breakthrough” year here in the U.S., then from the looks of it, 2025 may well be its breakout year.

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Finally! Padel Up Brings First Club to the D.C. Area

After countless months of rumors, speculation, and frustration from racket-sports lovers of all kinds about if and when padel would ever come to the greater D.C.

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U-Padel Set to Open New Five-Court Club in San Antonio

When I first spoke with Ruben Gonzales, the ever-affable, extremely experienced racket-sports pioneer behind U-Padel, he had just opened the first indoor padel club in Texas — a seven-court, air-conditioned facility about 45 minutes outside of Houston.

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Squash Legend Adding Padel to Unique New Jersey Racket Club

Several years before the pandemic, I had the distinct pleasure of taking a group squash lesson from Peter Nicol MBE as part of a charity event here in Charleston, SC.

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Five Exciting New U.S. Padel Clubs You Should Know About

With each passing day, new padel courts and clubs are opening across the U.S.

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Park Padel Readies Two New Northern California Clubs

Park Padel first made its mark on the U.S.

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Meet the Rapidly Emerging Empires of the U.S. Padel World

If you watched the immensely popular drama series Shōgun that premiered on FX and Hulu earlier this year, then you’ll probably agree that while it was a fascinating narrative, it was also pretty darn challenging to follow at times.

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Chicago’s North Shore Looks to Be New U.S. Padel Riviera

At least according to these two Chicagoland padel insiders...

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The Ever-Growing List of Celebrities Now Hopelessly Addicted to… Padel

Sure, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s ongoing whirlwind romance might be getting slightly more media attention than the exploding number of new celebrities falling in love with padel week after week…

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Ultra Set to Open FIVE New Padel Clubs in Miami

When Julian Wortleboer, the Chief Padel Officer at Ultra Club in Miami, reaches out and says he’s got something “big” to tell me, I’ve learned to listen…

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Is the Most Unique Padel Club in the U.S. in… Minnesota?

You might be surprised...

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Street-Wear Fashion Legend Bets Big on Padel in the U.S.

When Scott London first came onto my radar a few weeks back, his name wasn’t immediately familiar to me.

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The Surprising New Epicenter of Padel in the U.S.: Malls

Growing up, there was one place everyone I knew wanted to go as often as they could to just wander aimlessly, socialize, see, and be seen: our local shopping mall.

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Sensa Is Excited to Bring First Padel Club to Nashville

Earlier this summer, Sensa Padel surprised many of us in the U.S.

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Wait, Are TWO New Padel Clubs Opening at LA Malls?!

Do you remember the old joke in the late 90’s about how Starbucks was growing so fast that a new Starbucks just opened in the bathroom of a Starbucks?

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More and More Pro Athletes Are Opening New U.S. Padel Clubs

It has been well documented that superstar pro athletes like Dwayne Wade, David Beckham, and Lionel Messi are falling hard for padel along with so many other celebrities.

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PADELphia Paves Way for Equal Pay at U.S. Padel Tournaments

Which is yet another first for this pioneering Philadelphia padel club

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Five More U.S. Padel Club Openings You Need to Know About

No sooner did we publish our recent articles about new padel clubs coming to New Orleans and Branford, CT than we got a whole slew of people reaching out with information about other new U.S.

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Connecticut Is About to Get Its Second Big Padel Club

Earlier this year, we reported on the impressive early-stage success of Connecticut’s first-ever padel (and pickleball) club, The Sports Haus, in Norwalk.

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Drew Brees Brings First Padel Courts to the Big Easy

Having lived in New Orleans for six years, I was ecstatic to hear that one of the city’s most beloved sports heroes of all-time (along with the likes of Archie, Deuce, and Steve Gleason) will soon be bringing the world’s fastest growing sport to the Big Easy.

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Five Pioneering Clubs Putting the Midwest on the Padel Map

While multi-club padel strongholds like California, Florida, New York, and Texas may be drawing the majority of the headlines in the U.S.

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First Ever U.S. High School Padel Courts Built In Texas

There have obviously been all sorts of major developments in the U.S.

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Is Djokovic Right? Is Padel Really a Big Threat to Tennis?

Given that Novak Djokovic is about to play in his 37th Grand Slam final tomorrow, he obviously knows a thing or two about tennis.

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Tennis Giant Fromuth Bets Big on the U.S. Padel Market

An ability to quickly and skillfully adapt to changing market conditions is generally the sign of an excellent business.

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Tim Bainton and Epic Are (Re)Writing the U.S. Padel Playbook

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the nine or so months since launching The Padel State, it’s that you never exactly meet anybody boring or underachieving in the rapidly emerging U.S.

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Which States Have the Most Padel Clubs? Take a Look…

Last week, I put together a simple map showing which states already have — or soon will have — two or more padel clubs.

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An Inside Look at Charlotte Padel Club’s Big, New Expansion

When I first talked to Miguel Correa of the Charlotte Padel Club about nine months back, we discussed lots of things.

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The Number of States With Multiple Padel Clubs Is Soaring

Up until a couple of years ago, Florida and Texas were the only two states that were home to more than one padel club.

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CNBC Declares Padel Is “The New Racket In Town”

Along with the likes of Good Morning America, The New York Times, and The Today Show, you can now add leading financial news network CNBC to the ever-growing list of media outlets that are starting to recognize that padel is about to be big business in the U.S.

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New Florida Padel Clubs Are Popping Up Left and Right

Along with a small handful of other padel strongholds like Houston, Miami has always been at the forefront of the U.S.

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Benji Markoff Has Unique Vision For Padel United Sports Club

There’s an old saying that goes something like, “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” And while I can’t conclusively declare Benji Markoff a genius based on the small handful of conversations I’ve had with him, I can say that his vision for his soon-to-open Padel United Sports Club concept in New Jersey is unlike any other I’ve come across in the U.S.

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Yes, It’s True! Ballers Will Soon Be Bringing More Padel to Philly

I can’t remember exactly when or how I began hearing the rumors that a racket-sports concept known only as “Ballers” was going to open a club in Philly with both of my two favorite racket sports, padel and squash (plus “much, much more”) but I was instantly intrigued, to say the least.

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Suddenly, Boston Looks Like It May Be Next Big U.S. Padel Hub

There’s a saying I used to hear a lot in my former job: “There are decades where nothing happens; and then there are weeks where decades happen.” And right now in the U.S.

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Downtown Denver Soon to Be Home of Brand New Padel Haus

You can now add Denver to the ever-growing list of U.S.

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Sensa Padel Reveals Opening of First Club in Boston

For those of us tracking the progress of Sensa Padel, yesterday’s big announcement on Instagram about their soon-to-open padel club in Boston came as a bit of a surprise.

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P1 Padel Looks To Ignite New Era With First Major in Las Vegas

Simon Davison, the founder, president, and CEO of P1 Padel in Las Vegas, is someone who’s obviously far more focused on the promise of the future, rather than the problems of the past.

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Padel X Opening Cements Miami as New Global Padel Mecca

Believe it or not, a decade and a half ago there were zero padel courts in Miami.

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Yes, Even Good Morning America Has Now Discovered Padel

Unless certain family members are visiting who simply can’t live without it, I personally haven’t watched — or even thought about — Good Morning America since probably the late 1990s.

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Brittany Dubins Wins Fans On and Off Court in Pro Padel League

There was plenty for the U.S.

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Play at These Five New U.S. Padel Clubs

If 2023 saw a steady steam of new U.S.

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Padel Boom Catches the Attention of The New York Times

While it’s true that the vast majority of people in the U.S.

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RacquetX Ushers In Explosive New Era of U.S. Padel

If I had to describe the mood heading into RacquetX, I’d say it was a little bit like middle school students looking forward to their first dance with a huge amount of excitement about what lay ahead and a dash of apprehension about the unknown.

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Six More Exciting New U.S. Padel Clubs That Are Opening Soon

Earlier this year, we put together a list of five highly anticipated new U.S.

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An Inside Look at the Game-Changing New Padel Club in St. Louis

At long last, Padel + Pickle has finally opened its doors to pickleball and padel enthusiasts alike just outside St.

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Taktika Padel Set to Make History With Stockton Opening

On Friday, February 23rd the first-ever pickleball and padel complex on a U.S.

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Ultra Miami Will Soon Be Among the World’s Largest Padel Clubs

With the exception of maybe Marcos del Pilar, there aren’t too many people in the U.S.

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U-Padel Quietly But Quickly Building Mini-Empire in Texas

The first time I met Robert Gurolnick, the Director of Padel at Parker Racquet Club just outside Denver, and told him about The Padel State, he immediately said, “You’ve got to talk to this guy Ruben who just played here.

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Five of the Most Exciting U.S. Padel Club Openings Coming in 2024

It seems like with each new week comes news of a new padel club being opened somewhere in the U.S.

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Miami’s Reserve Cup is the U.S. Padel Equivalent of the Super Bowl

While the U.S.

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Padel Haus Delivers Stunning One-Two Punch With Big Nashville News

Well, that was fast!

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Padel Haus Set to Further Extend Its Lead in the Big Apple

While Manhattan-based Reserve is certainly drawing its fair share of attention in the padel world, today’s big announcement from Brooklyn-based padel pioneer Santiago Gomez clearly establishes his brainchild, Padel Haus, as the premier padel club operator in the five boroughs.

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Former Power Plant To Be New Home of Massive East Coast Padel Club

In my ongoing quest to document everywhere you can play padel in the U.S.

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Everywhere You Can Play Padel in the U.S. Right Now

With videos of crazy-amazing points like the one below now all over YouTube and Instagram, it’s little wonder so many Americans are starting to ask, “Where can I play padel in the U.S.

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Sports Haus Offers Promising Preview of Padel’s Future in the U.S.

To say that Patricio Misitrano is an ambitious and accomplished go-getter in the world of racket sports would be a bit like saying Rafael Nadal is a pretty good tennis player.

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Brittany Dubins is the New Face of Padel’s Future in the U.S.

If there’s one name I come across time and time again as I dig deeper into the rapidly emerging world of padel in the U.S.

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Parker Racquet Club Puts Colorado on the U.S. Padel Map

It’s not every day you come across someone who has accomplished an ambitious lifelong career goal they set for themselves as a teenager, but Barry Riddle is one such person.

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World’s Largest Indoor Padel and Pickleball Club Set to Open in St. Louis

For those of us in the U.S.

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The Most Controversial Thing About Padel in the U.S.? How to Pronounce It!

As the co-founder and editor of the first-ever website 100% focused on the U.S.-padel market, the only question I may get more often than, “Where can I play padel in the U.S.?” is undoubtedly, “How do you actually pronounce ‘padel’?”

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Grassroots “Labor of Love” Shows the True Power of Padel

How a series of unlikely events led to South Carolina's first padel court...

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Park Padel Makes Stylish Debut in Heart of San Francisco

A growing number of padel clubs in the U.S.

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The Hottest New Trend in America’s Hippest Hood: Padel

When it comes to all things cultural, Brooklyn is undoubtedly America’s “capital of cool.”

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Should U.S. Padel Clubs Have Pickleball Courts (and Vice-Versa)?

Weighing the pros and cons of having a club with both padel and pickleball courts...

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Street-Wear Fashion Legend Bets Big on Padel in the U.S.

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Sensa Is Excited to Bring First Padel Club to Nashville

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More and More Pro Athletes Are Opening New U.S. Padel Clubs

PADELphia Paves Way for Equal Pay at U.S. Padel Tournaments

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New Florida Padel Clubs Are Popping Up Left and Right

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Yes, It’s True! Ballers Will Soon Be Bringing More Padel to Philly

Suddenly, Boston Looks Like It May Be Next Big U.S. Padel Hub

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