Custom Padel Court

What the court package can include.

Engineering note: Final dimensions, profiles, loads, glass, foundation, lighting performance and compliance documentation are confirmed for the project location and agreed supply scope.

A custom padel court from the manufacturer, not from a catalogue.

XTZ Padel builds custom courts in our own facility in Hengshui, China. Most of what makes a court “custom” is not exotic: a site that is not a clean rectangle, a roofline that has to match an existing building, a club identity that has to appear on the glass, turf and net, or a distributor who needs the same specification repeated across several markets. What these projects share is that the answer has to be engineered and confirmed before production, not negotiated after it.

We work with club owners, developers, contractors, distributors and private clients. Some projects are a single court built to a brand standard; others are repeatable OEM programmes where the same specification is shipped unit after unit. Both are handled from the same engineering base, and both are quoted from drawings rather than from a price list.

What we manufacture for custom projects

• Hot-dip galvanized steel structure, roof framing and platform sections
• Roof geometry from standard curved, arched and flat profiles to project-specific forms
• Glass enclosure, post layouts, mesh and protection panels
• Artificial turf cutting, colour selection and court graphics
• Lighting layout, fixture positions and electrical components
• Branding elements on glass, net bands and entrances
• Export packing, labelling and container loading plans built around the installation sequence

What we confirm before production

• Site dimensions, levels, ground condition and the interfaces we have to meet
• The base court model and every departure from it
• Roof form, height, coverage and the structural loads that apply
• Colour references, brand files and where branding is applied
• Quantity, destination and the documents each market requires
• Packing logic if the courts are to be installed in phases

If you are weighing a custom court against a standard one, the padel court buyer’s guide sets out the specification checklist to work from, and the turnkey installation guide explains what the delivery and installation scope normally covers.

What can be tailored on a custom padel court.

It helps to separate two kinds of change. A selection is a finish or component choice that is made from the existing range and does not alter the structure. A departure changes geometry, loads or interfaces and therefore has to go through engineering review. Knowing which is which is the difference between a quick quotation and a redesign.

Selections — finish, colour and identity

• Structure colour to a RAL or brand reference, in outdoor-grade powder coating
• Turf colour, infill and line colour, including centre-court graphics
• Branding on glass, net bands, entrances and protection panels
• Lighting style and fixture positions within the engineered layout
• Benches, padding, scoreboards, door arrangement and selected accessories
• Labelling, documentation and packaging presentation for OEM programmes

Departures — geometry, structure and site

• Non-standard overall footprint or a court fitted into an irregular plot
• A roof form developed for a specific building or architectural brief
• Elevated platforms, retaining structures or courts built over an existing surface
• Reduced-post or post-free glass layouts, where the glass carries more structural load
• Modifications to drainage, foundation interfaces or the finished ground level

Every departure is reviewed against the playing rules and the structural requirements before it is priced, because a court that is custom in appearance still has to be a court: the playing area, the rebound behaviour and the glass safety standard do not become negotiable. What changes is how the enclosure is built around them.

Custom courts are usually built on a base model rather than from a blank page. Starting from a panoramic layout, a classic framed enclosure, a covered court with a roof or an elevated platform system keeps the engineering proven and confines the customisation to the parts that actually need to change.

How a custom padel court project runs.

A custom project is a sequence of approvals. Each stage exists to close a decision before the next one is started, so that nothing that has already been built has to be revisited.

Stage 1 — brief and site information

We start from the site rather than the product: dimensions, levels, ground condition, photographs, the intended use, the operating model and the brand assets. Where a departure from the standard range is involved, this stage also establishes which rules and documents the project has to satisfy.

Stage 2 — drawings and visual approval

The brief is returned as a technical configuration and a drawing set, with visual material where the appearance is part of the decision. Colours, branding positions, roof form and layout are approved at this stage, because approving them on a screen is far cheaper than approving them on a finished steel frame.

Stage 3 — production control

Once drawings are approved the specification is locked, and production, component checks, labelling, documentation and export packing all run against that locked version. This is the stage where an OEM programme gets its repeatable logic: the same specification, the same labelling and the same packing for every unit.

Stage 4 — delivery and installation support

Loading is coordinated, components are identified against the drawings, and installation manuals and remote technical guidance are supplied. Supervised or on-site installation can be quoted separately where the project needs it.

Two things shorten this sequence more than anything else: complete site information at stage 1, and a single decision maker for approvals. If you send both, the drawing stage moves quickly.

Start from a standard court type, then make it yours.

Most custom briefs resolve into one of the standard configurations once the site and the operating model are clear. The table below is the starting point we use in the first conversation.

In practice, the custom work usually sits on top of the chosen type rather than replacing it: a branded club programme built on the classic layout, a hotel court with a roof matching the building, a distributor range that has to be identical in three countries. Send the site information and the brand requirements and we will tell you which parts genuinely need to be custom and which parts are cheaper and faster to take from the standard range.