Tournament tennis in Australia

Peanut Tennis is a free tournament finder for competitive tennis players in Australia. It lists every Tennis Australia sanctioned tournament, lets you filter by age group, state, ball colour and date, and shows who has entered before the draw comes out.

No. It started that way, because we built it for our own kid, but it lists everything from U10 through to Open and AMT events. Pick Open in the age filter if you're an adult.

Free, and there's no account. No email, no password. If you set up a player profile it's saved in your browser, with a backup copy on our server so we can count how many players use Peanut. We don't share it or sell it.

No. Entries happen on the official Tennis Australia tournament site, and you'll need a Competitive Player Profile to do it. Every tournament in Peanut has a button that takes you to the right entry page.

What you need before you can enter →

On the rules pages. Peanut turns an association's rule book into short questions and answers, each with the by-law number next to it, and keeps every association under its own state so nothing crosses over. The first one is Tennis Geelong in Victoria: 151 answers on junior, senior, Midweek and night pennant, from the heat rule to finals.

Tennis Geelong rules, explained →

A tennis parent in Australia who got sick of trawling through tournament listings every school holidays. Peanut is independent and isn't affiliated with Tennis Australia or UTR Sports.

Set up a profile with your home suburb and the list sorts by distance. You can add a second suburb too, which is handy if you often drive to the same regional comps. No profile? Browse by state instead.

Browse tournaments by state →

Tap the School holidays filter. Peanut knows the term dates for every state and flags anything that falls in a break. There's also a school-holiday page for each state you can send to other parents.

Age groups are U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, worked out from your age at the start of the year. You can always play up an age group. You can't play down. Put your date of birth in Peanut and it'll show your group plus the ones you're allowed to play up into.

They compare your UTR to the usual level of that tournament tier. Reach means you'd be one of the lower-rated players in it. Comfortable means you'd be near the top. Matched is the sweet spot. It's a rough guide for picking events, nothing more.

Dates, the venue and street address, when entries open and close, the withdrawal deadline, each event with its fee, the tournament director and referee, a link to the regulations, and last year's champions. After entries close you can see who's in. After the draw's out, you can see that too.

You need a Competitive Player Profile (CPP) first. That's a free Tennis Australia account linked to your UTR. Once you have one, open the tournament on tournaments.tennis.com.au, pick your events and pay. Peanut links you to that page from every tournament.

How to set up a CPP →

It joins your Tennis ID (an 11-digit number starting with 66) with your UTR Sports profile. You need one to enter any tournament or league in Australia. Kids under 15 have to be linked to a parent's account. Setting it up takes about ten minutes if you have your details handy and a lot longer if you end up with two Tennis IDs, which happens more than you'd think.

Set one up step by step →

Every tournament sets its own date. A week or two before play is typical, but some close earlier. Peanut shows the open date, the close date and the withdrawal deadline on each tournament page.

Pull out before the withdrawal deadline and you'll usually get your fee back. After that, or once the draw is published, expect to lose the fee, and some events add a penalty on top. The exact rules are in the regulations linked from the tournament page. If you're unsure, ring the tournament director. Their number is on the page too.

Depends on the event. The organiser sets the fee, and singles and doubles are usually charged separately. Peanut shows the fee range on the tournament page once it's been published.

Universal Tennis Rating. It's a number from 1.00 to 16.50 that estimates your level from recent match results, whatever your age or gender. Higher is stronger. Two players with a similar UTR should have a close match.

From your recent results and how close each match was, not just the win or loss. Beat someone rated above you and it goes up a fair bit. Lose 6-4 7-5 to someone two points higher and it can go up as well. Recent matches count for more than old ones.

It varies widely. Many competitive 12-year-olds in Australia sit between roughly 2.0 and 5.0. A rating above 5.0 at that age is strong and usually means the player is winning most matches at state-level junior events. The number matters less than its direction: a rising UTR means improving results.

Most club players are somewhere between 3 and 6. Decent pennant players sit around 6 to 8. Open and AMT fields start around 9 and the pros are 12 and up. It's a tool for picking the right events, not a report card.

There aren't enough recent results yet for UTR to be confident. Play a few more sanctioned matches and it firms up. If you've played plenty of matches and still have no rating at all, your CPP probably isn't linked to UTR. That's the usual cause.

Link your CPP to UTR →

No. We just show the rating that's already public on your profile. UTR Sports works it out and publishes it. Peanut links through to the official page.

They're Tennis Australia's junior tiers. JDS (Junior Development Series) is the entry level, often with modified balls. JC (Junior Club) and other club events sit in the middle. J125 and the higher Junior Tour numbers pay more ranking points and draw stronger fields.

Australian Money Tournament. Open-age events with prize money, graded Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Each step up means a stronger field and more ranking points. Peanut lists them under Open.

Points you earn for results at sanctioned tournaments. Bigger tiers pay more points. Rankings are used to seed draws and to decide who gets in when an event is oversubscribed. You'll find yours on your Tennis Australia profile.

They're the three stages of modified tennis for young players. Red is the slowest and softest, on a small court, for around 5 to 8. Orange is faster, on a three-quarter court, for roughly 8 to 10. Green is close to a normal ball on a full court, usually 9 to 11. Yellow is the regular ball.

Once entries close, open the tournament in Peanut and tap See who's entered. Peanut ranks the players in your event by UTR, so you can see at a glance where you sit in the field and who the top seeds are likely to be.

Yes. Open any player in Peanut to see their recent results, UTR and win rate this year, with links to their official Tennis Australia and UTR pages.

The referee seeds the draw, mostly from Australian Ranking points, sometimes with UTR in the mix. Peanut's UTR ordering of the field is a decent guess at who'll be seeded. You won't know for sure until the draw is published.

Usually a day or two before play starts, after entries have closed and the late withdrawals have been sorted. Some referees post it earlier. Once it's up, Peanut shows it with every player linked to their results.

Most events are knockouts. The seeds are spread out so they can't meet early, and the winner of each match moves to the right. A lot of junior events run a consolation draw as well, so a first-round loss still gets you another match. Round robins put players in groups and everyone plays everyone.

Rules for matches without an umpire →

Your Peanut profile (name, date of birth, UTR, suburbs) is saved in your browser and backed up privately on our server. Nobody else sees it. Player pages only show match results that are already public. To remove your profile, tap your name in the top right and choose Remove profile.

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