Forget pickleball: Entrepreneur brings indoor padel to Sarasota-Manatee

The Pad Sarasota offers space to play padel, a racket sport that is growing worldwide in popularity.

Padel courts feature walls, mesh and high ceilings.
Padel courts feature walls, mesh and high ceilings.
Photo by Lori Sax
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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When Ellie Berdusco is not playing padel, she is talking about padel or thinking about padel. 

Now the enthusiastic former college athlete-turned-entrepreneur has channeled her love of the sport into a business. Berdusco, 28, is a partner in and general manager of a brand-new padel facility in southern Manatee County.

 

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