Give every member
a court worth booking.
A club ladder keeps your players competing all season — challenge the person above, win, and move up. Tap Leagues runs the ladder, the box leagues, the americano nights, the club meets and the championship, and keeps every standing live. Optional owe-and-receive handicaps (15, 30, 40) keep matches close between players of different standards.
Tap Leagues is free tennis ladder and tennis league software — with a matching tennis app for iOS and Android. Whether you run an LTA club, a coaching academy or a summer ladder between friends, it handles challenges, matches, scores and live standings, so the only thing left to organise is who's bringing the new balls.
The club ladder, done properly
For tennis we'd always start with a ladder. Give everyone a rung, let them challenge upward, and your courts fill themselves — there's always a match worth booking and a place worth defending.
Run it for singles or doubles pairs, freeze a player's spot while they're away, and set the reach, the challenge window and the no-show rule exactly how your club likes to play.
Why a ladder keeps a tennis club alive
A reason to book a court
Every member has a position to defend and a rung to chase, so the courts stay busy all season — not just on club night.
Challenge & climb
Players challenge someone above them, win, and take their spot. You set how far anyone can reach up the ladder.
Fair on everyone
Challenges expire on your schedule, members heading off for summer can freeze their place, and nobody gets stranded at the top.
No clubhouse whiteboard
Scores go in on the phone at the net and the ladder reorders itself — the magnetic name tags can finally retire.
Entered courtside, approved with a tap
No more results pinned to the noticeboard a fortnight late. Either player taps in the set scores at the net, their opponent confirms, and the ladder reorders before they've zipped up their bags.
Scoring follows your rules — best of three, championship tie-breaks, match tie-break deciders — with a game-by-game breakdown saved against every result.
One club, every way to compete
Club ladder
Singles or doubles, one rolling table everyone wants to climb.
Box leagues
Round-robin divisions with promotion and relegation each round.
Championship
A knockout draw for finals day, seeded and updated live.
Americano league
Enter solo, rotate partners every round, and climb on your own points.
Meets
Recurring social sessions — RSVP, turn up, and play games made on the night.
Handicaps
Optional in ladders, box leagues, championships and americanos — owe or receive 15, 30, 40 so every match starts fair.
Doubles divisions that sort themselves
Prefer a fixed run of matches? Split members into boxes, play a round-robin, and the table recalculates the instant a result lands — with automatic promotion and relegation between rounds.
Bonus points reward pairs who actually play their matches, and the whole division exports to PDF for the clubhouse wall.
A club championship worth the trophy
Round off the season with a knockout. Seed the draw from ladder positions, let byes sort themselves, and watch the bracket fill in live as the semis and final play out.
Everyone courtside follows the draw on their phone — no crowding round a printed sheet taped to the clubhouse door.
See who's playing their way up
Every set feeds live leaderboards — recent form, win rates, court activity and the all-time records your members actually argue about.
Tennis handicaps — owe and receive
Each player carries a handicap written the traditional way: Scratch, Receive 15, Receive 30, Receive 40, or Owe 15 and Owe 30 for the stronger players. A fraction such as Receive 15.3 means an extra point in three games of every six. When two players meet, the difference is played in every game.
- Receive 30 against Receive 15 nets to Receive 15: the weaker player starts every game 15–0 up.
- Owe 15 against Scratch: the stronger player starts every game at owe 15 and must win a point to reach love.
- Receive 15.3 against Scratch: 15–0 in every game, and 30–0 in games 2, 4 and 6 of every six (receive extras fall in the even games, owe extras in the odd ones).
With auto-adjust on, handicaps move in tenths: a deciding-set finish moves 0.1, a normal win 0.2 and a straight-sets whitewash 0.5 — five sixths of a fifteen, close to the scale real-tennis clubs use.
Available in box leagues, ladders, tournaments and americano leagues. Members see the start before they play, and the app scores each game from it.
Made for the way tennis is played
Open the ladder before the season starts.
Set up your tennis club ladder in minutes, share one link, and let the challenges roll in.
Download the app today
Download the app today and you can start to manage your clubs on the go.
