For tennis organizers running club draws and junior events
Tennis lives and dies on the draw: seeds spread across quarters, byes on the top seeds, and a schedule that respects the fact one player might play three matches in a day. Tournamyx builds it and keeps it live.
Free for small events · Nothing to install
If any of these sound familiar
We built Tournamyx for tennis organizers in exactly this situation.
Field guide — tennis organizers
A tennis draw is a single elimination bracket with strict conventions about where people go. Seeds are separated so the top two cannot meet before the final and the top four cannot meet before the semi-finals — in a 32-draw that means seed 1 at the top, seed 2 at the bottom, seeds 3 and 4 heading the middle quarters, and 5 to 8 heading the remaining eighths. Byes go to the seeds, in order, until the draw is full.
This is the part hand-drawn sheets get wrong, and the failure is invisible until the weekend. Seed only the first-round pairings and leave the rest to chance and you can put your two strongest players in the same half — the best match of the event happens in a semi-final on Saturday and the final is flat. Everyone feels it and nobody can name the cause.
The bracket generator applies standard seeding from the order you enter players, and places byes on the top seeds automatically. A 24-entry draw sits in a 32 frame with eight byes; a 20-entry draw takes twelve. The 20 team bracket and 32 team bracket pages state the exact numbers for those sizes.
Draw size, matches and byes
| Entries | Draw size | Matches | Byes | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 |
| 16 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 4 |
| 20 | 32 | 19 | 12 | 5 |
| 32 | 32 | 31 | 0 | 5 |
Most tournament scheduling optimises for court utilisation — keep every court busy, finish early. Tennis is the sport where that is the wrong objective, because the same person plays several matches in a day and a court-optimal schedule will happily send them straight from a three-set match onto the next court.
The constraint that matters is rest between matches for the same player, and it binds hardest late in the day when the remaining players are the ones who have played the most. A 32-draw on four courts is nine rounds of court-time at best-of-three sets — around thirteen hours, which is a two-day event whatever you do to the courts. Shorten the sets and the same draw is under seven hours and fits a single long day.
The tournament schedule maker allocates matches across your real court count a round at a time, and the public schedule shows every player their own next match rather than a wall of fixtures. That is the number that actually drops: how many people ask the desk what is happening on court four.
Two honest gaps, both worth knowing before you commit an event. Tournamyx records match results and standings — it does not keep a point-by-point or game-by-game live scoreboard, so if what you want is a live 40–30 on a public screen, this is not that product.
The second is the back draw. Feed-in consolation, where first-round losers drop into a secondary draw, is standard in junior tennis and Tournamyx does not run it live today — it is structurally the same problem as double elimination, which is in development and coming soon. There is a free double elimination bracket generator on this site that will draw and resolve that shape in your browser now, though it saves nothing.
What does work is the main draw run properly: seeds spread, byes placed, matches allocated to real courts, results entered from any phone at the desk or courtside, and one public link that parents and players open without an account. If your event is a straight draw plus a schedule, that is the whole job. If it needs a consolation bracket, better to know now.
The comparison
Every tournament hits the same five moments. The difference is whether you handle them from a spreadsheet or from one link.
| The moment | The usual way | With Tournamyx |
|---|---|---|
| The schedule | An Excel sheet that lives on one laptop | One link, always current, on every phone |
| Score updates | 47 unread WhatsApp messages on match day | Standings update themselves as scores go in |
| A team drops out | Redraw the bracket by hand, again | Drag, drop — the bracket adjusts on its own |
| “What time is our match?” | Answered forty times, individually | Answered by the link, once |
| After the final | Typos on the printed bracket sponsors saw | A clean recap sponsors actually post |
If the middle column reads like your last event, Tournamyx was built for you.
What it handles
Five places where most tournaments fall apart. None of them will be yours.
01/Scheduling
Enter your teams, groups, and courts. Tournamyx lays the whole schedule out across them, round by round — the job that used to eat your Saturday night.
02/Preview
Walk through every fixture, field assignment, and standing before you publish. Spot the imbalance or the awkward matchup while nobody’s watching.
03/Changes
Thirty minutes before kickoff, someone always cancels. Drag the team out, drop a replacement in — the bracket and the public link adjust on their own.
04/Scoring
The scorer picks the match, types the result, hits save. Standings recalculate, the bracket advances, and the public link shows it — before the teams have left the court.
05/Collaboration
Invite co-scorekeepers with the right permissions and divide the venue between you. Every score lands in the same live standings — no “who has the latest sheet?”
Case study — IIUMRC, Jul 2025
In July 2025, Tournamyx ran the IIUM Robotic Competition — the annual international robotics tournament at IIUM Gombak, where school teams from Malaysia and abroad battle in sumo, robot soccer, and time-rush events. 406 teams across three categories, 755 matches scheduled and scored live, every standing on one public link. If it can run an international robotics championship, it can run your Sunday futsal night.
Read how we did it →
Questions
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Weighing up other tools? Here’s a neutral checklist for comparing them.
Yes. You can build a full tournament at scores.tournamyx.com without signing up — Tournamyx creates a guest session, and an account is only required when you publish the event, add an organization, or upgrade. The free generators on tournamyx.com need no account at all.
Tournamyx lets you drag a team out of a running tournament and drop a replacement in. The bracket, the standings, and the public link everyone is checking all update together — no rebuild, no group-chat announcement, and nothing redrawn by hand.
Yes. Tournamyx supports owner, admin, and member roles plus per-tournament scoring permissions, so you can invite co-scorekeepers and have several people scoring at the same time from different courts. Every score lands in the same standings.
Tournamyx places byes automatically, so an organizer never has to work out the bracket padding by hand. Tournamyx seats them on the top seeds, advances those teams straight to round two, and redraws the bracket if the team count changes before kick-off.
Tournamyx supports both. You can seed teams deliberately so the strongest sides meet late, or use the one-click randomiser for a contested draw, and Tournamyx builds the bracket from whichever order you settle on.
Tournamyx ranks group tables on match points and recalculates them on every save. Tie-breaks are applied automatically, and attempt-based events can rank on custom metrics such as fastest time or highest score instead of points.
Yes. Tournamyx exports the full match schedule and blank scoresheets for every field as print-ready PDFs, for referees, judges, and the registration desk. On the Pro plan those PDFs carry your organization logo.
Yes, on every plan including Free. Tournamyx does not limit how many tournaments you run or how many are active at once — the plan limit is on players per tournament, not on the number of tournaments.
Yes, on Pro. Tournamyx shows unlimited sponsors on the public event page and reports click-throughs and audience analytics afterwards, so you have something concrete to send a sponsor after the final.
Tournamyx is used for futsal, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, pickleball, chess, esports, robotics and STEM competitions, university sport, school sports days, and corporate events. The formats differ from sport to sport; the scheduling and live-scoring engine underneath is the same.