Open Padel by Lasaigues

The name belongs to Alejandro "Ale" Lasaigues, the Argentine who reached world number one with Horacio Álvarez Clementi in 1987 and held it until 1991, won a world championship with Roby Gattiker in 1996, and whose academy produced Fernando Belasteguín and Pablo Lima. In the club's own words: "Inspired by padel legend Alejandro 'Ale' Lasaigues — 9-time World Champion and former world #1 — we bring a professional spirit to every match." That is a heavier piece of padel history than any other club in the county carries.

The court description is the most precise in Broward and every word of it is load-bearing: "five air-conditioned panoramic glass courts designed for year-round comfort and elite play". Panoramic rather than walled, fully glazed, and actively cooled rather than merely covered — which in a Miramar August is the difference between a session and an ordeal. Its own booking system specs all five as indoor crystal, which is Playtomic's term for full glass, so the club's claim and its own grid agree. The courts were built by ManzaSport of Beniparrell, Valencia, a padel court manufacturer of twenty years' standing, and the club claims to be the first indoor padel club built in Miami.

The rate card is complete and needs no interpretation, which sets it apart from every other club here. A court for 90 minutes is $35 as a non-member — the club's tarifa regular — or $30 plus tax for a member, any day of the week, subject to availability. Membership is $200 a month, or $180 for under-25s. A private lesson is $139. Clinics are $40 and a kids' clinic is $30. Tournaments run $40 to $65. Non-members can book, cancellation is 24 hours, and members book up to fifteen days ahead. For a $35 court twenty minutes from a club charging $80 for the same 90 minutes, that is worth knowing before you choose.

Membership includes four private clinics a month led by club professionals, the reduced court rate, a welcome T-shirt, 10% off the pro shop, and free ball-machine access between 11am and 4pm with advance booking. It also includes the most charming clause in this whole estate of venue pages, and it is the club's own: for each match played, members may substitute water with Gatorade as part of their preferred experience.

The programming tells you exactly who plays here. Clinics are level-banded and gendered — Monday intermediate women, high beginners, high beginners mixed — and the tournament calendar runs Friday through Monday with draws banded at 1.5–2.0 for women and 3.5–3.75 for men. The Friday tournament is called the Asado Friday Tournament, $48 for 180 minutes with twenty entrants; an asado is an Argentine barbecue, and the club's membership copy is written in Spanish first and English second. This page is in English, so it is worth saying plainly: the club is bilingual and Spanish-led, and if that is your language you will be reading its own materials rather than ours. Jesús Barros is named on the kids' clinic.

Founded in October 2021 by CEO and co-founder Diego Moretti, with a workforce split between the United States and Argentina. Its own site at openpadel.club is a one-page card — "FIVE INDOOR PADEL COURTS IN MIAMI" and a phone number — so the booking system is where the club actually writes about itself. One claim reported and not adopted: its court manufacturer's marketing says the club hosted the Pro Padel League Finals, which is a supplier's word rather than the club's.

Five courts seat twenty players a round, and twenty-six is the ceiling at which six people rest each round. Ninety minutes leaves eighty of play — six rounds to 32 points, or ten to 21.

The $35 rate is per court, so filling each one is what makes it cheap: sixteen players across four courts is under $9 a head, and eight players across those same four courts is $17.50. Book the number of courts your headcount fills, not the number that sounds generous.

A full Americano at twenty players wants nineteen rounds and you have six, so a Mexicano is the format that fits — it needs six rounds to produce meaningful standings, which is exactly the booking. If you want a rotation that completes, eight players on two courts finishes an Americano inside the same 90 minutes.

Hours are the same seventeen every day including holidays, which makes this the easiest club in the county to schedule a recurring weekly session at. Nothing changes at the weekend, unlike 10BY20's 4:30pm close.

The air conditioning is claimed by the club rather than inferred, and it is one of only two clubs here that claims it. For a July or August session with a group that includes anyone new to the sport, that is the deciding fact.