Business, Clubs & Facilities
Find a Court, Run the Club: Two Tools Fixing Tennis’s Oldest Headaches
Tennis has two problems that never go away. Players can’t find courts. Clubs can’t run them without drowning in admin. Two new tools — built by the same team — attack one problem each. Here’s what they do, and why coaches should care.
Headache #1: “Where do we play this week?”
Every coach knows the drill. A player moves to a new city, or the usual courts are booked, and suddenly you’re texting around asking who’s got a free hard court on Thursday. Court information lives in a dozen places: club websites last updated in 2019, Google Maps reviews, word of mouth.
TennisMatch.io (tennismatch.io) fixes the discovery problem. Search, map, and compare tennis, pickleball, and padel facilities near you — with real court counts, real surfaces, and real availability. No more guessing whether that club across town has clay or just claims to. For coaches, it’s a scouting tool: vetting practice venues, finding hitting locations for traveling players, or just answering the eternal parent question — “where can my kid hit this weekend?”
Headache #2: The front desk is held together with spreadsheets
Now flip sides. Running a club means court booking, waitlists, memberships, dues, waivers, check-ins, lessons, tournaments, and the pro shop — usually stitched together across five logins and a whiteboard. Every hour spent on admin is an hour not spent coaching.
RunMyCourts.com (runmycourts.com) puts the whole operation in one place: court booking and waitlists, card payments and dues, member ledgers, waivers and check-in, automatic emails, plus lessons, programs, and tournaments sharing one calendar. Three things make it stand out:
- Free to start. The base plan costs $0 with no time limit — unlimited courts, members, and locations.
- No transaction fees. Payments go straight into the club’s own Stripe account. The platform takes no cut.
- Built for racquet sports. Tennis, pickleball, and padel side by side — a court with two sets of lines can switch between them.
For coaches running academies or programs inside clubs, the pitch is simple: less time chasing payments and managing bookings, more time on court.
Two sides of the same net
What makes this pair interesting is that they’re designed to work together. Players discover clubs on TennisMatch.io; clubs run themselves on RunMyCourts.com. A club that claims its listing and runs on the software gets discovered by players and books them without lifting a finger — the waitlist even backfills cancellations automatically. Whether you’re a player hunting for a court or a coach tired of admin, the direction is the same: less friction, more tennis.
- Find your next court: tennismatch.io
- Run your club free: runmycourts.com
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