Tournaments

Every tournament still open for registration is listed on Find tournaments — no account needed to browse. Point it at your location (use-my-location or a ZIP code) and filter by division: men's, women's, mixed, or Open (anyone can enter), and U12, U18, adults or 55+ age brackets. Events are sorted by soonest registration deadline, and every card links to a public info page you can share.

Signed in, the Tournaments page shows events in the zones your players belong to, plus tabs for the ones you've entered.

Eligibility follows the tournament's play type. A “Women's singles, 55+” event checks gender and age at registration; an Open division has no gender or age restriction, and a tournament with no category at all is open to everyone. Players can play up an age group but never down: an Under 12 player can enter Under 18, and a 55+ player can enter Adults.

Some tournaments also set a level range — for example “Intermediate & up”, “Beginner – Intermediate” or “Beginner only”. What counts is your level in that sport: once you've played rated matches it comes from your results; until then it's the level you picked under “Sports I play” — so a floor keeps mismatched beginners out of an advanced draw, and a ceiling keeps a beginners' event for beginners. If you haven't played or picked a level yet, you can still register. See Ratings & rankings for how ratings work.

You can register any time before the registration deadline; once it passes, entry closes. Free tournaments just take the spot. If there's an entry fee, your card is charged when you register — the entry fee goes through Stripe to the organizer, plus a small TFL service fee shown at checkout (none on Flex Tournaments).

No subscription is needed to enter a tournament — you only pay the entry fee. Your first Flex Tournament (organized by PlayTFL) is free — no card needed. One free entry per account. Withdraw before it starts and you keep it for another tournament.

Some organizers announce a tournament before registration opens — the page then says “Registration opens” with the date and time. Tap Remind me and we'll tell you the moment it opens (you can cancel the reminder any time, or turn these off under “My tournament updates” in your notification settings).

• Withdraw early, full refund. Withdrawing while you're still outside the tournament's refund window (by default, more than 7 days before the event — organizers can adjust this) refunds the entry fee in full.
• Inside the window, the fee is no longer refundable.
• If the organizer cancels, everyone is refunded in full, automatically.
• If the organizer reschedules, you get a fresh grace period to withdraw with a full refund if the new date doesn't work.

Refunds are issued to the original card and typically appear in 5–10 business days.

If a tournament is full, you can still join — you're added to the waitlist, free of charge. When a registered player withdraws before the deadline, the longest-waiting person is automatically promoted into the open spot and the entry fee (if any) is charged to their card on file. You'll get an email either way, and you can leave the waitlist any time before the deadline.

Doubles events are entered as a team. When you form a team with a partner who manages their own account, they must confirm the partnership first — a team that's still pending consent can't enter tournaments (or post play invitations). Either member can leave the team at any time, which dissolves it.

Entry fees for doubles are one team fee, charged to the card of the person who registers the team — never split, and never charged to the partner. The same single-fee rule applies if the team is promoted from the waitlist.

No partner? Some doubles tournaments let you sign up solo — you pay half the team fee and get paired before the draw, or a full refund if you aren't. See Quick answers below.

In a standard tournament, the organizer runs the show: they publish the draw, pair the matches, and report every score (even saving scores offline at the venue and syncing later). Players don't report tournament scores themselves.

Flex Tournaments, organized by PlayTFL, work differently: when registration closes you're placed in a division of players near your level, and you schedule each match with your opponent — the home player offers times, the other picks one — and play at any court you both like. You report the result in the app and your opponent confirms it — the same confirm-or-dispute flow as regular matches. Standings update as you play, the top players advance to the playoffs, and the playoff bracket crowns a champion. Some run as recurring series, starting a fresh season when one ends. Find them on Flex Tournaments.

Live standings and completed brackets stay on the tournament's page. When the event completes, the champion and runner-up are recorded in the public Hall of Champions, and rated tournament matches move your zone rating like any other rated match. See Champions & recognition for how the honor rolls work.