USTA National Campus

Facility itself is nice, most courts play pretty well. The main stadium courts are not great, no shade at all for players, benches are metals so you cannot sit on them because they are burning hot. Their scheduling is very poor for sectionals tournaments. They do not inform players of match time changes, and will push them back an hour and a half and you will just be standing their waiting around because no one will inform you of any changes. If it rains, plan on being forced to wait inside the facility and not be able to leave for hours on end. They will hold out and not update you but say you cannot leave the grounds. If you play on different level teams they do not accommodate the scheduling. Food is overpriced in the cafe, anything inside the coolers is way over priced. The chicken sandwich was decently priced and did taste good. The play sight is a nice feature but it slows everything down in the video ALOT. Also have to make sure for early matches they have them turned on, you’ll have to ask.

We traveled from Sarasota 4/28-5/1 to the campus for Florida’s 4.0 55’s+ women’s sectionals. We rented an AirBNB less than 10 miles from the campus. After one full day of play, an intense thunderstorm came through including hail, high winds and tornado watches which backed up the 2nd day of play. The USTA officials handled this beautifully. They communicated to each player via text or email on the hour with updates. The tournament resumed 5 hours late with a shortened format but once the semis took place, they returned to the regular format. There were plenty of officials walking the courts so if you needed one, they were readily available. We ate lunch one day in the restaurant and the food was good, so was the coffee! Water dispensers, ice and bathrooms are conveniently located everywhere. The retail shop was full of fabulous merchandise. I had a racket restrung there by a super friendly energetic employee. (Ryan maybe?) I loved playing on the har-tru courts but that’s where my one star reduction comes from. The dead spots on courts 9 & 10 were awful and need to be corrected. Overall, it’s an impressive facility.

I was here on holiday and wanted to play a game. I sign up through a horrible site that works terribly; I called the night before to confirm that all the players were there. I'm told everything is ok. I arrived at the camp in the morning at 8.30 and only I was there. Padel here will never catch on as long as there are individuals with such low ability and totally unsuitable for this sport. I would have given zero stars but you can't get less than one. they are shameful a mess