Guides to running racket sport
How the tournament formats differ, how many courts a draw needs, how seeds and byes are placed, and how to run a club tournament or a doubles round robin. Useful for anybody running a tournament, a league or a ladder, with or without SetMatcher. Further down you can read what Plus adds and how a club works.
Written for anybody organising, whether or not they use SetMatcher.
Guides to running racket sport
How the formats work, how much court time a draw of a given size needs, and how a draw is filled. Written for anybody running one, whether or not they use SetMatcher.
- Tournament formatsNine shapes, what each costs in matches and time, and which bodies sanction which.
- How many courtsThirty-one matches, five rounds, nine hours on four courts. The tables below say the rest.
- Running a club tournamentFive decisions, in the order they have to be made.
- A doubles round robinCount the matches, build the rounds with the circle method, date them a week apart.
- Seeds and byesThe order, why the pairs sum to one more than the round, and where the byes land.
Plus in detail
Match statistics, form and trends, the rivalry in depth, events of any size and the price: what each one gives you, and what the free plan already shows.
- Match statisticsServe, return, pressure points and momentum, out of a log you already recorded.
- Form and trendsFour windows, three kinds of opponent, and expected against achieved.
- The rivalry in depthThe same series, by surface, by year, by period, and rally by rally.
- Events of any sizeFree to 16. What the seventeenth costs, and which of the four routes you want.
- What Plus costs€3.99 a month, €39.99 a year, and nothing deleted if you stop.
What a committee decides first
What a committee wants to know before it moves its club: what a club is, what it costs, what a year looks like, how to move over, and how the register, the park map, the booking sheet and the lessons work.
- Members and the club pageThe register, the committee, the join links and the public page.
- The park mapCourts at true size on the real ground, halls with floor plans, and a way in.
- Court bookingsA day at a time, the club’s own rules, and a court closed with the reason on it.
- Lessons and instructorsA season, groups, a register, rained-off lessons owed back, and the money ledger.
- A club or a groupBoth free, both run events. The difference is authority and memory.
- What a club costsThe register is free at any size. €39.00 a month buys the big events and the embeds.
- A committee’s yearAutumn, winter, spring and summer, in the order a committee meets them.
- Moving a club overStart with the register, from the spreadsheet you already keep.
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