Philippines unveils Asia’s first tournament-grade pickleball center in Pasig City
Pasig City’s Helios complex brings 25 courts, a 2,000-seat stadium and a new tournament home as Asian pickleball moves beyond borrowed space.
A 2,000-seat stadium court and 25 professional-grade courts are set to give Asian pickleball its first true tournament home in Pasig City. The Helios Pickleball Center is being built as an eight-story, 17,500-square-meter complex in Bridgetowne Destination Estate, with completion expected in 2027.
Robinsons Land Corp. and Kosmas Athletic Ventures Corp. broke ground on the project on July 17, 2025, and put the estimated cost at up to P1 billion, or about US$17 million. Beyond the courts, the plan includes a gym, sports clinic, dining options and two basement parking levels, making the site more than a place to squeeze in matches between other bookings.
That scale matters because pickleball in Asia has spent years living on borrowed space. The Philippine Pickleball Federation says the country’s first pickleball clinic was held in Cebu in early 2016, the first established play venue followed at the LDS Church on Buendia Avenue in Makati in 2017, and founders were playing street pickleball in Ortigas Center, Pasig, by April 2018. The Philippine Pickleball Sports Association was established on April 15, 2019, and the federation says the sport has since grown to more than 250 member clubs and 17,000 registered players nationwide.
The federation also lists 467 clubs and 1,191 courts on its website, a sign of how quickly the ecosystem has expanded from improvised beginnings. It describes itself as the world’s first government-recognized national governing body for pickleball, a distinction that gives the Pasig project institutional weight as well as architectural ambition.
That ambition is already drawing tournament operators. PPA Tour Asia and Kosmas Athletic Ventures signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward hosting multiple tournaments at Helios beginning in 2027, and the venue has been framed as suitable for major professional events. Lance Y. Gokongwei attended the groundbreaking alongside officials from PPA and Major League Pickleball, underscoring how quickly the project has pulled developers, tours and federations into the same conversation.
The federation is also pushing the next competitive step, calling on elite players to join the 2026 Pickleball World Cup in Da Nang, Vietnam, from August 30 to September 5, 2026. With Helios rising in Pasig and a regional tournament calendar taking shape, Philippine pickleball is moving from patchwork courts to a model that other Asian cities may soon be pressed to match.
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