Tournament planner
Paste the names, pick the courts, choose the scoring. The planner draws the rounds, spreads the matches across the courts, manages the rests and keeps the table. Runs in your browser, no account needed.
Paste the names, pick the courts, choose the scoring, start. The tournament planner draws the rounds, spreads the matches across the courts, manages the rests and keeps the table — you only enter the results. For the Friday-night Americano as much as for the club tournament with eight fixed teams, group stage and final.
The rules of the game itself — serve, walls, scoring — are explained at Padel rules made simple; to test them, take the padel quiz.
A tournament format with individual scoring: every round you get a new partner and new opponents, every rally counts one point, and a match is played to a fixed number of points — usually 16, 21, 24 or 32. Whoever collects the most points across all rounds wins. There are no sets, no advantage and no serving rule other than: the serve rotates after every point.
In an Americano the pairings are drawn so that partners and opponents repeat as little as possible. In a Mexicano, from the second round on, pairings follow the table: first plays with fourth against second and third, fifth with eighth against sixth and seventh. The best play the best and the field sorts itself within a few rounds — ideal when levels are mixed.
At least four players and one court. Four play per court; whoever does not fit on a court sits out a round — the planner spreads the rests evenly. Eight players on two courts is the classic: in seven rounds everyone has played with everyone once.
A match to 24 points takes about 12 to 15 minutes. With changing ends and entering scores, count on roughly 18 minutes per round — seven rounds are a good two hours. With less time, play to 16 or 21 points or fewer rounds; with more, to 32.
Yes. The fixed-teams format plays round robin, optionally in two to four groups, then a final or semi-finals, final and third-place match. Scoring can be on points, on time, one set, best of three sets (third set as match tiebreak or full set) or a match tiebreak only — with or without a tiebreak at 6:6 and golden point.
No. The tournament runs in the browser of the device you create it on and stays saved there even after a reload. Results can be corrected at any time, including in earlier rounds.
Free courts near you with price and time are in the court finder. And if you want to know where you stand in the ranking after the tournament, look at the player stats.