With origins in Mexico and strongholds in countries including Spain and Argentina, padel is now storming the United States.
Save this storyLocated on an island of reclaimed land beneath the MacArthur Causeway, the site of Reserve Padel is largely raw. Unkept grass grows on vacant lots. There’s somewhat haphazard parking. And the vibe is pretty industrial. Yet check in, and all that kind of melts away as the Magic City’s gemstone skyline comes into frame: Reserve—Miami’s toniest club built to serve the world’s fastest-growing racket sport—is a waterside idyll with million-dollar views.
Padel’s origins are linked to an adaptation of a squash court customized by a man named Enrique Corcuera in 1969 at his home in Acapulco. The space is enclosed, with fencing and glass, minus openings on either side at the center of the court. Yet the sport feels more like tennis. You use the same scoring system , and you hit across a net into and out of modified service boxes. You also use, though the racket is different from a traditional tennis racket.
“The court is only 33 feet wide,” continues Boich. “So the ball really is alive a lot of the time. There’s also something about the tennis-like element. When you hit it well, it’s empowering, like when you hit a good tennis shot. You don’t have that in a lot of racket sports.” While padel is relatively democratized overseas, it has, so far, garnered a reputation in the US as being a bit posh. Some of that is fairly assessed—and Boich knows it. “We want to set it up where the sport is accessible to all,” he says. Reserve has a membership component , but in fact itopen to the public—it’s just pricier, per court, than other facilities in the Miami Dade and Broward County regions. “I think it’s important and incumbent on the sport to try and grow in all areas.
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