Padel Isn’t Just a Sport. At XCEL PADEL it’s the New Palm Beach Lifestyle.

West Palm Beach just witnessed a seismic shift. Xcel Padel unveiled a twelve court indoor club - the largest in the nation - that reads like a high performance arena at first glance. The deeper story is that it is a modern sanctuary for movement, recovery, and the social rituals linked to a longer, more energetic life.

Padel is the catalyst.

Everything around it is the lifestyle.

The club blends fastest growing sport on earth, with Mediterranean dining, sauna and cold immersion therapy, massage and yoga based recovery, and social architecture designed to keep people together for much longer than a one hour workout. In this sense, Xcel reflects a European model where padel clubs function as civic spaces, the modern equivalent of a café, a meeting house, and a family club woven together.

“We set out to build something extraordinary,” co founder Leon Rozenfeld told the crowd. “A place where you can move, recover, eat well, and spend the day with people you care about.”

The longevity science is well known among researchers.

Racket sports are associated with nearly a decade of additional life.

Sauna use is linked to lower cardiovascular risk.

Cold immersion supports recovery and metabolic strength.

Mediterranean eating is a foundational feature of the world’s longest living communities.

And strong social connection remains one of the most significant predictors of long term health.

Xcel Padel is the first American club to gather all of those elements into a single luxury environment.

At the center of the space is Olea & Bloom, a Mediterranean style café that serves as the club’s social anchor. Designed by culinary tastemaker Philippe Pautesta Herder and executed by Chef Jimmy Chill, the café offers seasonal dishes built on olive oil, herbs, produce, fresh seafood, and slow cooked flavors. Guests linger after morning matches and return in the evening with friends, turning the café into an all day social hub.

“We believe in this sport, but what matters most is the connection it creates,” said co founder Dmitry Gershfeld. “This is a place where people can talk, work, play, or simply enjoy being together. You can spend an entire day here.”

The West Palm Beach flagship arrives at a time when Palm Beach County is experiencing a cultural shift. Wealth and wellness have become intertwined, and long, healthy living has become the region’s most sought after luxury. The rise of private gyms, cold plunge studios, Mediterranean dining, and high end recovery centers has created an ecosystem where a club like Xcel feels not only timely but inevitable.

Whether padel becomes the new golf remains to be seen.

But the club surrounding it hints at what a new era of American leisure may look like: a place where sport, recovery, food, and community are not separate activities but one continuous experience.

For Xcel’s founders, the opening night was both a debut and a declaration.

Xcel opened its first club in West Lake in September. That club has gotten international attention, as people have traveled from as far away Hong Kong to take part in Instructor certification training held there.