Club night, sorted.
Courting runs social tennis at your club. Fair doubles every rotation, and you always know you’re up next.
Fair doubles
Balanced from Form, with the pairings mixed up round to round.
A queue that moves
Everyone goes in, and your phone shows where you stand.
Games that find you
Every way to get a game, gathered in one feed.
The queue runs itself
With Courting, the queue just moves. Everyone who turns up goes in, and Matchmaking builds each rotation from everyone’s Form: balanced doubles, court time shared evenly, and the pairings varied round to round.
Some rounds are a proper test, some are comfortable, and you are not stuck with the same partner all night. That variety, playing people you would not usually get on court with, is the point of a social, not a flaw.
You’re 3rd up. Shouldn’t be long.
Picking teams the old way
Names in a hat
Whoever gets drawn, gets drawn.
Court 1
vs
Pre-match win chance
Lopsided. One team barely gets a look in.
Matched on Form
The queue, matched on Form
Balanced foursomes, in order.
Court 2 · up next
vs
Pre-match win chance
Balanced. A real contest, every time.
The Courting Call
Book the court. Courting fills it.
Or put a Courting Call out. Courting rings round the club for you, in four widening calls, until the court is full. It reaches Form-matched players first, so the game comes together well matched, not just filled.
Still short? The call opens to anyone at the club.
Once your four is set, tap Balance Teams and Courting splits everyone into the fairest two sides.
One Courting Call replaces the whole chase. You’ll hear yourself say it: “I’ve put a Courting Call out for Saturday.”
How Saturday works today
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Friday. Still chasing.
The same booking, one Courting Call
Chat still going...
Start a Courting CallSaturday 10am · 4 players · one tap
First call
1 of 4
Locked in.
Saturday 10am · Courting LTC
Pre-match win chance
Form-matched. A close, fair game, sorted in seconds.
See the game before you say yes
In a group chat, “we need two more for Saturday” tells you the host, the day, and nothing else. You say yes, then meet your match when you walk on court.
An invite in Courting is more than a name and a time. Before you answer, you can see who is already in and their Form, and who else has been asked, so you know the level of the game taking shape. You accept a game you can see, not a name and a time.
A level, not a leaderboard
Form runs from Casual to Elite, and it has one job: matches that feel right at your level. No rankings wall, no win streaks, nobody keeping score of you. A friendly loss is just a friendly loss.
Games that find you
Today a handful of members do all the organising. Know one and you get the invite; if you do not, you get the last spot once the list is exhausted, or nothing at all.
The Plan feed gathers every way to get a game in one place: managed sessions to join, bookings you are invited into or now free to join, empty courts you could book yourself, and Cleverly Matched proposals that line up a form-matched group, a free court and a time, ready to accept in one tap.
Post your availability, hope
The group chat
You throw it out there.
Into the void. Nothing comes back.
Cleverly Matched
Set it once
Courting watches for a fit.
Available · Mon 6-10pmCleverly Matched
Court 3 · Mon 6:30pmForm-matched · close game
Accept the matchA game, proposed to you.
Waitlist the slot you want
The court you want is fully booked, so today you refresh the sheet all week, ask around the group chat, and mostly just do not play. When someone drops out at the last minute the slot sits empty and you never hear about it.
Waitlist the time you want, or one specific booking, and Courting tells you the moment it opens up. You get first shout at the slot, with no asking around, and a court that would have sat empty goes straight back into play.
Two ways to watch: a busy timeframe, or one specific court booking. Either way, the notification comes to you.
Bring anyone. They just play
Trying the club before you join? Come to a managed session as a guest: join with just a first name, check in on your own phone in the browser, and play. No download, no account, no hovering at the fence while the regulars sort themselves out.
Or bring a friend along to fill your own booking. Either way, Courting keeps the guest’s details, so the club can see how often members bring guests and follow up to turn a visitor into a member.
The bits between the tennis
The story of the evening
Over a drink afterwards you always end up asking “what was the score, how did you get on?”. The recap lands before you leave: closest match, best partnership, most court time. Fuel for the clubhouse chat, not a replacement for it.
Scores in two taps
Quick enough at the change of ends that people keep it live, not reconstructed from memory after. Everyone can glance at how the other courts are going, and every score quietly feeds Form and Matchmaking, so the next games are better set.
Genuinely smart, deliberately invisible
Underneath: a proper Bayesian skill model and constrained optimisation. On the surface: good tennis, with people you’ll want to play again.
Pick your court
Four surfaces, sunlight or floodlights. Clay gets its serif scoreboard, grass gets the lawn. The whole app dresses for the court you call home.
Run a club?
Make Courting your club’s booking platform, completely free. Unfilled bookings release back to members before they waste a court, and social nights run themselves. Not switching yet? Sessions still run in Courting alongside whatever you book with today.
Common questions
- Where can you play social tennis in London?
- At a club that runs social sessions, the times members turn up and play with whoever is there. Courting manages those sessions for clubs across London: it fills fair doubles, keeps the queue moving, and lets you drop in without arranging a four in advance.
- How do you join a tennis club through Courting?
- Find your club in the app and request to join, or come to a session as a guest first with just your first name. Once you are in, your sessions, bookings and games all live in one place.
- How do club tennis socials usually get organised?
- Traditionally through a group chat and a paper sheet: someone chases numbers, someone draws pairs, and latecomers miss out. Courting runs the session instead, so the doubles are composed fairly and the queue moves on its own.
- How does Courting keep the matches fair?
- It composes doubles using each player's Form, the skill level the app learns as you play, so teams stay balanced and you get variety across the evening rather than the same pairing every time.
