Guides

How to redeem a discount code

Where to enter a code, how to see what it does to each plan before you choose one, and what happens with a code that covers the full price.

Tennis & pickleball 2 min read

How to join a league or a tournament

How to enter, what to do when an event is invite only, and how matches actually get played once you are in.

Tennis & pickleball 4 min read

Tennis rules for beginners: serving, lets and calling the lines

The rules that settle arguments on a public court: how many serves you get, what counts as in, when a point is replayed, and who calls which lines.

Tennis 6 min read

Tournament or league: what is the difference?

A tournament is a bracket that ends in a final. A league is a table you play across a season. What each one asks of you, what a loss costs, and how to pick.

Tennis & pickleball 5 min read

How to record a match on T&P Now

Recording a result takes about twenty seconds. What each field wants, how to write the score for tennis and for pickleball, and what happens after you hit save.

Tennis & pickleball 4 min read

How points work in tournaments and leagues

Three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a loss, in both. The difference between a tournament and a league, how ties are broken, and why your rating is a separate number.

Tennis & pickleball 6 min read

How to find tennis and pickleball courts near you

Park, school, club and bookable courts each work differently. What costs money, why the opening hours are unreliable, how to read a surface, and how the queue works when it is busy.

Tennis & pickleball 6 min read

NTRP explained: what tennis level am I?

NTRP runs from 1.0 to 7.0 in half-point steps. What each level looks like on court, how to rate yourself honestly, and why your first guess is usually half a point too high.

Tennis 6 min read

DUPR explained: how pickleball ratings actually work

DUPR runs from about 2.0 to 8.0 to three decimals, counts your losses as well as your wins, and keeps singles and doubles apart. What moves it, and what does not.

Pickleball 5 min read

Pickleball rules for beginners: the kitchen, the two-bounce rule and the score

The four rules that decide almost every argument on a rec court: the non-volley zone, the two-bounce rule, side-out scoring, and why the score has three numbers.

Pickleball 7 min read

Tennis scoring explained: love, deuce and the tiebreak

Why 15, 30 and 40, what deuce actually requires, how a tiebreak is served, and what the 10-point match tiebreak replaced.

Tennis 5 min read

How to find a tennis or pickleball partner at your level

Where players actually are, what to put in a post so people answer it, and how to avoid the mismatch that wastes everyone's Saturday morning.

Tennis & pickleball 5 min read

When to restring your racquet, and what dead strings cost you

Restring as many times per year as you play per week. Why that crude rule holds up, what dead strings cost you, and how to tell it is time without guessing.

Tennis 4 min read

How to run a small tennis or pickleball tournament

Round robin or knockout, how many courts and hours you actually need, how seeding and byes work, and the tiebreakers to agree before anyone plays.

Tennis & pickleball 7 min read