Club Tennis Tournament Scheduling: Courts, Singles, and Doubles
Club tennis tournaments balance courts, weather, and singles/doubles schedules. Here's the 2026 ops playbook.
Tennis tournaments - especially USTA junior events - blend court scheduling with match length uncertainty. A 3-set match can run 90 minutes or 3.5 hours.
Courts and surfaces
Hard court, clay court, indoor. Tag courts by surface and assign matches by player preference.
Singles and doubles
Singles Saturday, doubles Sunday, or split across both days. Scheduler should avoid back-to-back scheduling.
Ladder-style progression
Many junior events use a ladder (round robin into compass draw). The scheduler should generate the full draw from entries with one click.