The Padel Courts

The Padel Courts is the only club in Los Angeles that will tell you what a court costs, which makes it the reference point for the rest of this city. A full-size court is $70 per half hour and the club states the per-person equivalent itself: $17.50 each for four. Half-hour blocks are the unit, so an hour is $140 and you can add time in thirty-minute increments rather than buying a fixed slot. A clinic is $55 for an hour in a group of no more than four with equipment included. Open play is $55 a person for two hours, takes up to twelve players, and includes balls but not rackets. Private lessons are $120 an hour as part of a ten-pack, or $150 to $200 for a one-off depending on the coach's seniority, with additional players joining at $25 each. Racquets rent for $10, or $25 for the premium ones, and a can of three balls is $10.

There is also a mini court, and it is the most distinctive thing about the place. The club publishes its exact dimensions — 61 by 28 feet against a standard court's 66 by 33 — and prices it at $25 per half hour, which is $50 an hour and the cheapest padel in the city by a wide margin. Its own description is "perfect for 2 players looking for an intense rally, 4 players enjoying a casual game, or just some training time with your friends or kids", and its published per-person figure of $12.50 is calculated on two players rather than four. So it is a genuine third court for a big group and a genuine two-player court for a drill, and it costs about a third of what the full-size courts do.

Plan a rotation on the two full-size courts. Eight players fit with nobody sitting out and up to ten with a rotation, which on an hour's booking gives about six rounds at a points target of 21. The mini court is where a ninth and tenth player warm up or play out a side match rather than part of the main draw — worth adding to the booking for a group of ten, not worth counting as a quarter of your session.

There are no memberships, and the club says why in its own words: as it concludes its soft-launch phase, details of membership offerings will follow. So today it is pay-and-play only, and the published rate is the only rate — no member tier is getting a better number than the one on the price page. Booking runs through PlayByPoint, the waiver is signed online, and the club coordinates its community through a public WhatsApp group linked from every page. One gap worth knowing: no cancellation window is published anywhere, so if plans might change, ask before you book rather than after.

The club is Spanish-speaking in its own voice, and it is the only one in this city that is. Its tagline is "¡Mi cancha es tu cancha!" — my court is your court — repeated across the homepage, and it calls itself the original padel club of Los Angeles. Co-founders Isaac Berkovits and Joseph Kagan have been at it since January 2024 with three employees, which is the scale the place actually operates at.

It is outdoor, and the honest position on cover is that the club does not say. Its own material describes an outdoor lot with "The Backyard, our new outdoor area with a fresh patch of grass, perfect for relaxing, stretching, or just hanging out", and nothing the club publishes claims a canopy, a roof or any cooling — so none is claimed here. Amenities are deliberately modest and clearly stated: a fully stocked pro shop, and a clubhouse lounge the club invites you to treat as a retreat, with Wi-Fi, books and board games. Food and drink is the one thing it has not built yet, and it says so plainly — "we are currently fine-tuning our on-site food and beverage services" — and permits you to bring your own in the meantime, which almost nowhere else does.

Coaching runs in four tiers, Beginner through Beginner+, Intermediate and Advanced, capped at four to a group, with a published weekly schedule and a tournament team the club announced in December 2024. No coach is named publicly, which is the only real gap in an otherwise unusually complete picture.

One listing to ignore entirely. PadelMapUSA credits this club with sand-filled artificial turf, racket stringing, a locker room, water stations, vending, military discounts and gender-neutral facilities, none of which appears in the club's own material and the locker room directly contradicting its own short amenity list. The same listing places the club "in the heart of the Sunset Strip corridor" in West Hollywood, which is several miles wrong — 5115 West Sunset is in Los Feliz, on the East Hollywood side — and headlines it the first and only club in Los Angeles, which is false four times over.

This is the one club in Los Angeles where you can total the bill before you book. A full-size court is $70 a half hour and $140 an hour, which is $17.50 a head for four — and because the unit is half an hour rather than a fixed slot, a group can buy ninety minutes for $210 rather than rounding up to two hours.

The mini court at $25 a half hour is the cheapest court time in the city. For a group of nine or ten, adding it to a booking of the two full-size courts costs $50 an hour and keeps everyone moving.

Session maths runs off the two full-size courts: eight players with nobody sitting out, up to ten with rotation, about six rounds at a points target of 21 in an hour. The mini court is 61 by 28 feet rather than 66 by 33 and the club prices it for two, so treat it as an extra rather than as a third of your rotation.

No cancellation window is published anywhere. Ask before booking if your group is unsettled — every other club in this city publishes one, and the silence here is not a promise.

Bring your own food and drink. The club has no food and beverage service yet and explicitly invites you to, which for a two-hour open play with twelve people is a real saving.