Padel courts measure 200 square metres with glass walls; pickleball courts measure 81 square metres in open air, a 2.5× size difference.
Padel costs $30K–$100K per court to build; pickleball costs $3K–$10K, creating different geographic and infrastructure constraints for expansion.
Pickleball has 22 million US players with 82,613 courts; padel has 1.07 million players with 1,000 courts as of 2026.
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