Resources
Free resources for the people who run racket clubs
Tools that do the arithmetic, templates to copy, and articles on the jobs nobody trained you for. None of them needs a sign-up, and most work whatever software your club runs.
Free tools
Free tools for your club's competitions
Free tool
Americano and mexicano generator
Type in who has turned up and get the whole evening: partners, courts, who sits out, and a table that keeps itself. Free toolTennis round robin generator
A tennis round robin where everybody plays everybody, in singles, fixed pairs or with a new partner each round, counted in games or matches. Free toolPickleball round robin generator
A pickleball session dealt for whoever has turned up: a new partner every game, fair sitting out, and a points table. Free toolTournament draw generator
A knockout draw for one event, with the seeds on the right lines and the byes where they belong. Free toolBox league spreadsheet
A free spreadsheet for Excel or Google Sheets. Type the names and the scores, and the table works itself out. Free toolLadder spreadsheet
A challenge ladder for Excel or Google Sheets. Log each challenge and the ladder moves itself, with your rules on the Settings tab. Free toolBox league rules template
A full set of box league rules to print and adopt, with every number your club decides in square brackets. Free toolThe Sheet
One box league tracker that works in a phone browser, even offline. Nothing to install and nothing leaves the phone.Templates to copy
Templates your club can copy and change
Each one sits in the article that explains it, in a box with a Copy button.
- A committee job, on one pagein Club committee roles: what each job involves
- A court-sharing agreement for two sportsin Pickleball at a tennis club: sharing the courts
- A membership price listin Membership categories and fees for racket clubs
- An AGM agendain What to present at your club's AGM
- An open day checklistin How to get more members for your club
- Club night rules, for the noticeboardin Who plays next: rotation systems for club nights
- Court booking policyin Court booking policy template for racket clubs
- First renewal noticein How to collect club subs on time, every year
- Halfway reminder to the boxin How to run a tennis box league: rules and scoring
- Ladder rules, for your clubin Ladder rules for a tennis club: how to run one
- Notice of the AGMin What to present at your club's AGM
- Squash box league rulesin How to run a squash box league
- The handover packin Handing over a committee job: a checklist
- The lapse rule, for the club rulesin How to collect club subs on time, every year
- The message that starts a roundin How to run a tennis box league: rules and scoring
- The one-page AGM reportin What to present at your club's AGM
- What to tell the players before the first roundin How to run a mexicano night
- What to tell the players before the first roundin How to run an americano at your padel club
Articles
The newest articles for club organisers
Competitions
Tracking player stats and records at your club
Most clubs keep their results. Far fewer keep a record for each player, and that is where the stories are. Here is what to track, the rules that keep the numbers fair, and how to use them without anybody playing for their stats. · 7 min read CompetitionsHow to level up your tennis box league
Your box league runs. The question now is whether it grows or drifts. Here are nine upgrades that make it better to play in, bring new members to the club, and take most of the admin off the organiser. · 10 min read Courts and coachingPickleball at a tennis club: sharing the courts
More and more tennis clubs are asked whether pickleball can use their courts. Done well, it fills quiet hours and brings in new members. Done badly, it starts the longest argument the committee has ever had. Here is how to share the courts, from the trial to the agreement. · 6 min readEvery article · Competitions · Membership and money · Courts and coaching · The committee · What's new
Guide and help
Help with running your club in Clayside
Guide and help
Articles
How clubs run box leagues, collect subs, set court booking rules and get through the AGM. Guide and helpGuide
Every question a club asks about running Clayside, answered in plain words. Guide and helpSupport
What a club fixes itself, what we fix, and how a signed-in club reaches a person. Guide and helpWebsite widgets
This season's table, the ladder or the latest results on your own website, from two pasted lines. Guide and helpLive demo
A real club with a season under way, reset every hour. Press anything.For your committee
Resources for your club committee
For your committee
For a committee
One page, written to be forwarded to the meeting that decides. For your committeeYour data and security
Downloading everything your club holds, importing a member list, and who can reach your data. For your committeeSafeguarding
What your club holds about a junior, who can see it, and what is never shown. For your committeeFinding a sponsor
How a club sells one sponsor slot on its league pages, and what the sponsor gets. For your committeePress kit
Descriptions, the logo and screenshots of the product, free to reuse.When the free tools become the job
The same jobs, done by the people playing
Every tool here saves an evening once. Clayside saves it every week: players arrange their matches and enter their own scores, the tables, draws and social nights keep themselves, and your members, subs and courts are in the same place.