Sportpark Frankfurt: nine courts in a park full of other sports

Nine outdoor padel courts — six for doubles, three for singles — built by Jubo-Padel in glass and steel, floodlit, and open until 23:30 every day of the week. That is the largest padel footprint in Frankfurt, and the venue's position on winter is refreshingly blunt: they play outdoors all year, and the weather is a question of what you wear.

It is a sports park rather than a padel venue, which is either the point or beside it depending on your group: four indoor soccer pitches, an outdoor soccer arena, a soccer box, three beach volleyball courts, bubble soccer, 1,800 m² of hall and 6,500 m² outdoors, a sports bar with a terrace and a playground. Courts are €20 off-peak and €28 in prime time, singles from €14, and a ten-session pass costs €245 for €260 of credit.

Six doubles courts is twenty-four players on court and a ceiling of thirty-two, which is the biggest group any Frankfurt venue can take. At twenty-four the Americano is out — twenty-three rounds against the six an hour gives at 21 points — so Mexicano, one target, all six courts the same.

King of the Court doesn't fit at this size either: it wants two rounds per court, so twelve rounds on six courts, and an hour holds eight even at 16 points. If your group specifically wants a KOTC ladder, book three courts and twelve players rather than all six.

The three singles courts at €14 are what to do with the eight people over the doubles ceiling, and the other sports are what to do with the ones who aren't playing at all. For a company day this is the only site in the city where padel, beach volleyball and a bar are one booking.