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Everything about racket sports competition
The complete guide to padel, tennis & pickleball: every competition format explained, official rules and scoring, a glossary, and organizer playbooks. Whether you want to learn how the game and its formats work, or run a tournament or league yourself, start here.
Learn the game
Official rules, scoring, and every format explained.
Run your tournaments and leagues
Organizer playbooks for americanos, leagues and ladders.
Get help with Skedge
Step-by-step product guides and FAQs.
Formats
The Americano Format: Rules, Scoring & Rotation
The Americano format explained: rotating partners, individual cumulative scoring, point targets, and court math for padel, pickleball and tennis.
Box Leagues Explained: Format, Scoring & Promotion
How box leagues work: graded boxes, round-robin play inside each box, scoring options, promotion and relegation between cycles, and self-scheduling.
Challenge Ladder & Pyramid Tournaments Explained
How challenge ladders and pyramid tournaments work: seeding, challenge range, response windows, win-replace rules, inactivity decay, and season resets.
Double Elimination Brackets Explained
A complete reference to double elimination: winners and losers brackets, the bracket reset, the 2N−2 vs 2N−1 match math, scheduling, and fairness.
Group Stage Plus Knockout Format Explained
How the group stage plus knockout format works: pot-based snake seeding, how many teams advance, the match math, fairness trade-offs and tiebreakers.
King of the Court Format: Rules & How to Run It
King of the Court explained: the promotion-relegation format where winners move up and losers move down, plus the single-court queue variant and how to run it.
The Mexicano Format Explained (vs Americano)
The Mexicano format explained: a score-driven Americano variant where the live leaderboard sets each round's pairings to keep matches competitive and balanced.
Round Robin Tournaments: Format, Scheduling & Math
A complete reference to the round robin format: the N(N−1)/2 match formula, circle scheduling, Berger tables, pool play, fairness, and tiebreakers.
Single Elimination Brackets: Rules, Byes & Seeding
A complete reference to single elimination: the N−1 match formula, ceil(log2 N) rounds, bye distribution, slaughter seeding, and the 3rd-place playoff.
The Swiss System Tournament Format Explained
A deep reference to the Swiss system: score-group pairings, the Dutch pairing rule, minimum rounds, byes, and Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger tiebreakers.
Reference
Racket Sports & Tournament Glossary
A plain-English glossary of tournament formats, seeding, tiebreakers, and the scoring terms used in padel, tennis and pickleball, with links to deep guides.
Which Tournament Format Should You Run?
A decision guide for choosing a tournament format by field size, court time, and goal: single elimination, round robin, Swiss, Americano and more.
Sport Rules
Padel Rules and Scoring Explained
A sourced reference to padel rules and scoring: the 2026 FIP rules, three deuce methods, the underhand serve, walls in play, court and equipment specs.
Pickleball Rules and Scoring Explained
A sourced reference to pickleball rules: side-out and 2025 rally scoring, the serving sequence, the two-bounce rule, the kitchen, serves, and ratings.
Tennis Scoring and Formats Explained
A sourced reference to tennis scoring: points, games, sets, no-ad, tiebreaks, match tiebreaks, FAST4, short and pro sets, social formats, and rating systems.
Organizer playbooks
All articles →How to Collect Entry Fees and Pay Out Prize Money
Stop chasing cash and Venmo. An organizer's guide to collecting entry fees, running a transparent prize pool, refunds, and clean payouts.
Round Robin Scheduling for Doubles: Building Fair Rotations
The scheduling math made approachable: fixed vs. rotating partners, byes, balanced rest, and worked rotation tables for doubles.
Growing a Recurring Padel League: Retention and Filling Courts
A retention and growth playbook for organizers: fill every court, run waitlists, onboard new players, and reduce churn in a recurring padel league.
The Club Owner's Guide to Monetizing Court Time
Turn empty off-peak courts into revenue with recurring americanos, leagues and ladders: programming, staffing, pricing and revenue per court-hour.
How to Organize a Padel League: Schedule, Divisions & Promotion
The complete organizer's playbook for running a padel league: season structure, divisions, promotion and relegation, scheduling, standings, and subs.
Pickleball League Management: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to run a pickleball league that players love: skill tiers, session formats, court rotation, scheduling, subs, and automation.
Using Skedge
Help center →Building a League: Divisions, Schedule and Standings
How to create a multi-week league in Skedge: set up divisions, generate the schedule, track standings, and run promotion and relegation between weeks.
Creating Your First Americano in Skedge
Step-by-step guide to creating your first americano in Skedge: set players, courts, scoring, an optional entry fee, then publish and share the code.
Inviting Players and Sharing Your Event Code
Invite players to a Skedge event with an event code or share link, see how players join with phone and OTP, and manage your roster and waitlist.
Managing Scores, Tiebreaks and Corrections
How organizers enter and edit scores in Skedge, how standings and tiebreaks resolve, how to fix a wrong score, and what players see live.
How Player Check-In and the Big Screen Work
Learn how players check in on event day in Skedge and how to put the big-screen display on a TV so everyone sees brackets, standings and order of play.
Refunds, Cancellations and Payout Timing
How organizer-issued refunds work in Skedge, how to cancel an event, and when entry-fee payouts reach the organizer after an event settles.
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