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A club tennis tournament is a knockout, and the reason is court time rather than tradition. A best of three sets match takes over an hour, so sixteen players in a round robin would be a hundred and twenty matches and most of a summer. The same sixteen in a single elimination is fifteen matches over four rounds, which fits a weekend on four courts.
What club tournaments add is somewhere for the first round losers to go. A consolation draw, also called a back draw or a plate, is a second bracket made up of the players knocked out in round one, so nobody drives to the club for fifty minutes of tennis. This tool draws one bracket at a time, so run the consolation as a second draw with those players entered into it.
Single elimination with a third place play-off for a club championship of sixteen or thirty two. Round robin only for a box league of four to six players, where guaranteed matches are the whole point. Double elimination is rare in tennis and roughly doubles the court time.
Best of three tie-break sets is about seventy five minutes. A short set format, or a match tie-break in place of the third set, brings that closer to fifty.
Seed by club ladder position or rating, strongest first, so the top two seeds can only meet in the final. Shuffle the seeds for a social draw.
A field that is not a power of two gives byes to the top seeds, which is exactly the standard tennis convention rather than a compromise.
For a consolation draw, generate a second bracket in the other division with the first round losers as its entrants, and print both sheets.
16
Entrants
16
Matches played
5
Rounds
0
Byes
| Round | Matches | Entrants left after it |
|---|---|---|
| Round of 16 | 8 | 8 |
| Quarter-Finals | 4 | 4 |
| Semi-Finals | 2 | 2 |
| Grand Final | 1 | 1 |
| 3rd Place | 1 | 1 |
Seeds are paired so the strongest and weakest meet first, which keeps the top seeds in opposite halves of the draw. This is the order the board is drawn in, top to bottom.
Rounds run one after another, because a round cannot start until the one feeding it has finished. Matches inside a round can all run at once, so the number of courts you have decides the day more than the number of entrants does.
| Courts | 38 min matches | 75 min matches | 113 min matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10h 8m | 20h | 30h 8m |
| 2 | 5h 42m | 11h 15m | 16h 57m |
| 4 | 3h 48m | 7h 30m | 11h 18m |
Playing time only. Add changeovers, warm-ups and the gap between rounds.