The hard part is rarely the playing. It is finding someone at about your level who is free on the same evening, and agreeing when and where. SetMatcher helps with that, and keeps your rating up to date afterwards.
Free to sign up and free to play. Your profile stays private until you choose to publish it.
Four steps, and you decide how much you share at each of them: being findable, asking someone to play, playing for a place on a ladder, and your rating afterwards.
Other signed-in players can find you from the start, by level, by sport and by roughly where you live: your town, region or country, never your address. Your phone number and your calendar start private, and in your privacy settings you can close any part whenever you like.
Send a challenge to one player. They can accept, decline or suggest another time and court. No answer within two weeks counts as a no, and after two refusals you cannot ask that person again unless they challenge you.
A ladder gives every match something to play for: challenge someone above you and take their place if you win. Your club sets the rules and they are shown on the ladder, so everyone knows what turning down a challenge costs.
Both sides confirm the score before it counts. Your rating then moves by how surprising the result was, so beating a stronger player is worth more, and you can always see which match moved it.
What it cannot do: find you a partner in a town where nobody has joined yet. Your rating is also marked provisional until you have played enough matches for it to settle.
Most people are more than one of these. A club secretary often plays on Thursday evening too.
Members come and go, the committee changes and the season has to keep going through all of it. SetMatcher keeps your members, courts, lessons, teams, results and rankings in one place the whole committee can use.
Thirty-two players arrive, two of them don’t, one court is out of use, and you still need to know who plays next. SetMatcher helps you through the day, from making the draw the night before to the final result.
Free for players. Clubs get a register, a park map, court bookings and lessons.