Overview
Peanut Tennis is an Australian tennis court and tournament directory built around one practical question: where can a player find a court and an event worth entering this weekend. The platform indexes 3,737 venues nationwide, including 1,361 free park courts, and tracks 149 upcoming sanctioned tournaments across every state and territory. Rather than burying venue data inside council websites or association PDFs, Peanut Tennis surfaces lighting, surface type and access instructions in a single browsable layer, then pairs that with a national tournament calendar that can be filtered by state, age group and date. It is aimed at competitive club players, juniors climbing the ranking ladder, and travelling families who need reliable court information before committing to a road trip. The service describes itself as the competitive tennis app that does not suck, and it is explicitly independent, with no affiliation to Tennis Australia or UTR Sports.
Key Features
- Nearest first court discovery. The courts section returns park courts, clubs and tennis centres ordered by proximity, so a player arriving in an unfamiliar suburb sees the closest options immediately instead of scrolling a static map. The dataset currently spans 3,737 venues nationally.
- Free park court segmentation. A dedicated filter isolates the 1,361 free park courts from private clubs and commercial centres. This matters for casual hitters and coaching groups who want a hit without paying a court hire fee, and it is broken out into city hubs such as the 152 free courts in Melbourne and 174 free courts in Sydney.
- Venue detail on lights, surface and access. Each listing carries practical attributes including whether the venue has floodlights, what surface the courts are laid on, and how a player actually gets on court, which covers council permit rules, clubhouse check in and booking quirks.
- National tournament index. The tournaments section aggregates sanctioned events by state, age group and date, with 149 events listed as coming up at the time of writing. Victoria carries the largest share at 63, followed by Queensland on 30, New South Wales on 29, South Australia on 13, Western Australia on 6, and four apiece for the ACT and Tasmania.
- Entry lists before the draw. Players can inspect who has entered an event before the draw is published, which is useful for gauging field strength, spotting familiar opponents and deciding whether an event is worth the entry fee and travel.
- State by state tournament navigation. A persistent navigation strip links straight into each state and territory landing page, including a Northern Territory route in the footer, so the calendar can be narrowed without running a search query.
- Plain English guides and by laws. A guides library explains UTR ratings, tournament tiers, ball colours and the first tournament experience, while a separate rules section translates association by laws into readable language and an FAQ handles the quick answers. Together these replace the trial and error that usually accompanies a player's first sanctioned event.
How It Works
The service is a browse first web directory. A visitor lands on the home page, which presents two entry points side by side: find a court, or find a tournament. The court path opens a proximity ordered list of venues with free park courts separated out, and city shortcuts for Melbourne and Sydney sit directly on the home page. The tournament path opens the national calendar, where the state navigation, age group and date controls narrow the list, and each event page links through to the current entry list. There is no onboarding funnel, no account creation wall and no trial gate in front of the core data. Navigation is duplicated in a header, a footer sitemap covering courts, tournaments, help and company pages, and a mobile bottom bar with home, courts, tournaments, guides and a more menu. The footer displays a build version marker, currently 1.1.0, which suggests active ongoing development of the dataset and interface.
Use Cases
- A junior player planning a season. A parent in Melbourne wants to build a tournament schedule around school terms. Filtering Victoria returns 63 upcoming events, and checking entry lists before draws are published helps the family prioritise the strongest fields and avoid clashes.
- A club player travelling for work. Someone flying into Sydney for a week wants a hit after hours. The free courts hub for Sydney lists 174 venues, and the lights attribute quickly rules out parks that close at dusk.
- A coach running squad sessions. A development coach needs reliable, no cost court space for drills. Filtering to free park courts across the 1,361 strong national set produces options without hire fees, and the surface detail keeps training consistent with match conditions.
- A first time competitor. A player entering a sanctioned event for the first time can read the guides on UTR, tiers and ball colours, then check the rules section for association by laws, reducing the guesswork around draws, entry and match format.
Who It's For
Peanut Tennis targets Australian tennis players at competitive and aspiring competitive level, along with the parents, coaches and clubs that support them. It suits junior pathways, adult tournament players and travelling families, and requires no technical skill beyond basic web browsing. The main alternatives are Tennis Australia's own tournament pages, UTR Sports for rating centric event discovery, and Google Maps for raw court location. Peanut Tennis differentiates on breadth of venue detail, the explicit free court filter, and a genuinely plain English explanation layer that the official channels do not provide.
