iPlayMe2 Helping Tennis Clubs Digitize The Way Forward

Bronxville Field Club director of racquet sports Nathan LeFevre jumped on the opportunity last summer to run all of its Club’s championships in a brand new way, having the players themselves self- schedule their matches, when mutually convenient, and then self-report the match scores, using the innovative iPlayMe2.

Nathan shared his interesting story about leveraging iPlayMe2’s app-centric solution. His “light-bulb moment”:

“Everyone these days has a smart phone in their palm, and is working remotely as often as possible. Schedules are more flexible, and less predictable. So, when iPlayMe2 came knocking on our door, with this self-scheduling tournament software, we couldn’t resist hearing them out”.

He continued: “We usually ran our Club Championships the traditional way; setting up specific days and weekend times when we’d insist our members get those matches in. But we flipped the problem on its head. Instead of our club mandating play time, blocking out courts, and cramping members’ schedules, I offered the members to use iPlayMe2’s app to self-schedule those matches, and then, without any input from my staff’s side, enter their match score.”

iPlayMe2’s club admin portal cranked out the brackets, with tournament players then getting forwarded to a website displaying draws, and receiving e-mails, and/or texts, about whom their first round opponent was, and were suggested to use the iPlayMe2 player app to propose days/timeslots throughout the week, for that match.

Some players stayed ‘old-school’, texting each other to coordinate when to play, while others embraced this innovative app, by efficiently accepting or countering each other’s propositions on when to play at our club, all through this app. By the second round, other member-players were jumping on the app, and making short work of the scheduling headache of offering convenient play times that suited their personal schedules. iPlayMe2 built this app to be as easy as ordering up an Uber… tap, swipe and a click.

Members loved entering their own scores, particularly when they won. This saved the club’s staff incredible amounts of time; iPlayMe2’s tournament brackets were always fully up-to-date, and visible to all of the members through the club’s private page within iPlayMe2’s eco- system.

For Nathan, iPlayMe2 not only digitized, and made easy, the entire process of setting up and running the club’s competitive play, but the members took more ownership of their matches, and were eager to schedule them when convenient to both sides of the net.

iPlayMe2 also handles flex leagues, round-robins, ladders as well as can generate player rankings/ratings across the entire club. It even handles Compass Draw type tournaments. For 2023, iPlayMe2 integrated all other racquet sports as well, including of course Pickleball, and Padel.

Nathan summed it up: “iPlayMe2 is very simple to use; it takes only minutes to set up a draw; the tech platform does everything else, and elegantly. Some of our members now think I’m a genius! They’re only half- right… Thanks iPlayMe2!”