Five new padel courts, a café slinging matcha and breakfast tacos, a sauna, and a cold plunge have landed on Dungan Lane in North Austin. The Padel Collective opened its doors in October, becoming the latest entrant in a racquet-sport boom that's reshaping how Austinites spend their weekends.
The club sits at 1610 Dungan Lane, just east of Interstate 35, according to thepadelcollective.club. It was founded by local entrepreneurs Yaro Kazakov and Daria Dergileva, as reported by CultureMap Austin. Kazakov told Community Impact that five panoramic glass courts are now open, with four outdoor courts and a shaded pergola planned to follow by the end of the year.
The club describes its facility as five air-conditioned padel courts laid with terracotta turf, per its own site. CultureMap Austin, meanwhile, has described the space as 20,800 square feet of indoor and outdoor courts, a sauna and cold plunge area, plus a coffee bar — a figure that differs from the 21,000-square-foot climate-controlled facility cited in Community Impact's reporting. The Padel Collective says it opened after two years of building.
More Than Just Courts
Padel here comes bundled with a hospitality package. The club's Revolución café serves local coffee, matcha, smoothies, breakfast tacos and bowls, and sits alongside a Mediterranean-inspired lounge with views of the courts, per Community Impact's reporting. There's also a coworking room, a stretching and pilates space, an outdoor Norwegian cabin sauna and cold plunge, and bathrooms with showers.
Parking comes with electric vehicle chargers on-site, the outlet's report notes. Players don't have to commit to a membership to get on court — the club's website says customers can book individually through Playtomic, court by court, without joining. For those who want in long-term, a founding membership is open now at $170 a month, with the rate locked for twelve months, initiation fees waived, and 30% off court bookings, according to thepadelcollective.club.
A Crowded, Fast-Growing Scene
The facility's lease was arranged by CBRE Group, a Dallas-based commercial real estate and investment firm, CultureMap Austin reports. That's notable timing: Austin now ranks second nationally for padel courts with 42, trailing only Miami's 192 and edging out Houston's 41, according to Axios. Texas as a whole has about 202 padel courts, second only to Florida's 297, the outlet reports.
The Padel Collective joins an already competitive local field. Padel39 launched its first premium club at the Domain in 2024 before expanding to a 12-court East Austin location with a sports bar, coffee shop and training club, per Tribeza. Axios reports that Padel39's original North Austin club still draws around 30 new players weekly, while its newer East Austin location introduces 100 to 130 first-timers each week. Padel Club Austin, which bills itself as the city's first Wilson padel facility, operates nine courts at 511 Industrial Boulevard, Tribeza notes, and Dripping Springs Racquet Club offers three professional-grade outdoor courts.
A Sport Still Finding Its Footing Nationally
The broader numbers suggest Austin's padel surge is part of something much larger. Global padel added roughly 8,000 courts in 2025, pushing the worldwide total to 58,334, according to the Sports Business Journal. The United States alone had 250 padel clubs and added 330 courts last year, though the outlet describes the American market as still nascent, with operators facing zoning, permitting, rent, equipment-import and awareness hurdles.
A 2025 estimate put U.S. padel participation at 1,073,000 players. The Padel Collective says its own build took two years. For comparison, Spain still has more padel courts than any other country, with more than 17,000.
Elsewhere in the Hill Country, the appetite for racquet sports keeps growing. Horseshoe Bay Resort has broken ground on a $10 million expansion that will add four dedicated padel courts and a new clubhouse by summer 2027, according to CultureMap Austin, joining the resort's existing 12 tennis courts and 14 dedicated pickleball courts. Across the nation's 100 largest cities, pickleball court growth slowed, rising just 4% from 2025 to 2026 after 13% growth the previous year, per Axios — a sign that padel may be carving out its own lane in the city's crowded racquet-sport landscape rather than simply riding pickleball's coattails.
