The total investment ranges from $800K to $2.4M, depending on your market, square footage, condition of space, and landlord contributions. That includes everything: franchise fee ($60K), construction, equipment, working capital, marketing, and every other nickel you’ll spend to get open and operating. No surprises. No hidden fees.

This depends on many variables including the cost of real estate, size of club, membership capacity and the relative pricing in your market. Additionally, your ability to follow the system and execute on hiring, marketing, and operations is critical to your success.

Legally and ethically, we can’t promise what you’ll earn—there are simply too many variables. But we do include a full club-level P&Lin our Franchise Disclosure Document, and if our introductory call leaves us both wanting to continue the conversation, we’ll schedule time to walk you through it so you can fully understand the business model and ROI potential.

Many pickleball concepts borrow heavily from the tennis club model—reservations, pros, food & beverage, private lessons. It’s a familiar playbook, but it comes with real challenges, particularly when it comes to capacity.

Court reservations create friction. Pros add cost and complexity. Food and beverage demands a whole second business under the same roof. And most importantly, these models tend to serve the top 5–10% of players—while everyone else gets left out.

Ace Pickleball Club is different by design.

We’re built around open play with no need to reserve a spot. Just walk in when you want to play — on your own schedule — and hop onto a court. With a steady flow of games all day long, our model provides convenience and flexibility for the 90% of people that just want to play pickleball.

It’s a model that’s inclusive, operationally lean, and built for scale.

Ace Pickleball Club is a privately funded company led by seasoned founders, Jay Diederich and Joe Sexton, each with close to 20 years experience developing franchises like Sky Zone Trampoline Parks, Mathnasium Learning Centers, and GNC.

The corporate team is comprised of 45+ individuals that come from brands like Chick-Fil-A, In-N-Out, Disney, Universal, Sky Zone, Mathnsium, Sears, and many other successful franchise concepts.

In other words, we are not pickleball enthusiasts learning franchising — we are franchise experts that love pickleball.

Ace Pickleball Club franchisees come from a myriad of backgrounds including corporate executives from brands like Nike, Disney, and Wells Fargo and large multi-unit operators of brands like Orangetheory Fitness, Planet Fitness, and The Joint Chiropractic.

What ties everyone together is an alignment with Ace Pickleball Club’s vision and a willingness to follow the system.

Our process isn’t a typical franchise sales pitch — it’s a mutual discovery process focused on aligning vision, goals, and expectations. We’re evaluating you just like you’re evaluating us.

The first step is an informal conversation to get to know you, understand your goals, and determine whether there’s a potential fit. We will also spend time answering your initial questions. If it makes sense to continue, we’ll move forward with next steps which include:

- Detailed review of initial investment
- Detailed review of club-level P&L (Item 19 of FDD)
- Market demographic analysis
- Franchise Disclosure Document
- Calls with Franchisees
- Visit to HQ in Atlanta