Create, Publish, Delete Draws – USTA Online Help Center

Once you are ready to create your tournament draws, follow the steps outlined below. For an overview of draw creation and draw creation options, please refer to the Creating Draws in Tournament Desk Overview article. Before or after you have published your draw, you can choose what is visible in the public draw in Public Draw Settings.

How to Create and Publish a Draw

Publish and Unpublish Draws

Public Draw Settings

Creating/deleting Playoffs & Availability of Playoffs

How to Create and Publish a Draw

Before following the steps below and creating your draw, ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc). When you are ready to create the draw, follow these instructions.

Navigate to Tournament Desk by clicking Launch Tournament Desk on the tournament menu.

Click on the Events tab and select the appropriate event.

Click on the Draw tab.

Click Make Draw.
- Ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc) before clicking Make Draw.

Upon clicking Add Draw, you will enter the draw details.
- There are two Creation method options listed in the last drop-down box:
  - Automated - The system will place ENTIRES into the draw automatically.
  - Manual - This option will provide a blank draw.

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Once you have input the details, click Make draw. Your draw will now be created.
- Draw size is automatically determined by tournament desk based on the number of players in your main draw, for example:
  - 1-4 players = Draw size of 4 players.
  - 5-8 players = Draw size of 8 players.
  - 9-16 players = Draw size of 16 players.
  - 17-32 players = Draw size of 32 players.
  - 33-64 players = Draw size of 64 players.

For manual draw creation, your draw will be blank. You will need to enter players into the draw by right-clicking on the position in the draw and selecting the Assign draw position.
- You can also assign seeds to the draw by right-clicking and selecting Assign Seeds.

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To delete a draw, you click 'Draw options' and then 'Delete draw'.
- The system will require a reason as to why the draw was deleted.

Publish and Unpublish Draws

Once draw has been created, you are able to publish the draw on your tournament website.
- This can be done by publishing each draw individually or by publishing all created draws at once. Both options are described below.

To publish each event's draw individually, within each event, click Draw Options and then Publish Draw.

The tournament draw will show the matches and schedule for for the selected round and two others.
- The selected round is indicated by the darker blue box at the top of the draw, while the other two rounds are indicated by a light blue box. Any round you're not currently viewing is indicated by a grey box.
- You can click on the box for any round to jump to the matches and schedules for that round.

To Unpublish your draw, click Draw Options and Unpublish draw.

To publish all created draws at once, within the Events tab, click Publish and then Publish all Created Draws.
- This will publish all draws that have been created, pending draws will not be published.
- To unpublish all draws, click Unpublish all created draws.

Public Draw Settings

You can choose what you want the players to view on the website in Public Draw Settings. You may want to hide the location, or the times/dates of the draw. You can display City and State to the players information or hide. You can now preview the public draw settings in this popout.

To edit the view:
In the Events Tab in Tournament Desk under publish - select Public draw settings

Additional Player Information- Select only one item from the drop down. i.e. city/state or country. This will change the view for all tournaments. City/State is what is set as default.

Adornment- Here you can choose to show players’ ITF World Tennis Number WTN on the public draws. All three confidence level icons of low, medium, and high will also be displayed once this adornment is enabled in draw settings.
Players' WTN Level check marks will be different colors depending on their confidence. Below is a breakdown of what each color means and where they can be found.
- High degree/dark blue check mark - When a player's confidence level is >=70%
- Medium degree/ light blue check mark- When a player's confidence is between 40 - 60%
- Low degree / grey check mark - When a player's confidence level is <=30%

Example of public view below if WTN is selected:

Match Day Information- by unchecking the boxes they will be removed from the view of the public view.

By default, all are selected. You can unselect by clicking on the check mark.

Scrolling down on this page will show you a preview of what is shown. i.e. if you uncheck Show time and Show facility for example. The preview will show you the change. I have marked where the date and facility would have been shown in red.

Finally, remember: You can also check the players' view, by clicking on View on USTA.com from the drop-down next to the tournament name, found top right.

Creating/deleting Playoffs & Availability of Playoffs

Please check with your section and Friends at Court if you are not sure, below is a guide but there are also exceptions to the rules and variable factors depending on the number of players in the draw. The below table shows which draw formats will have a 3/4 playoff and a 5/8 playoff

To create a playoff
- From the select the Events tab in Tournament Desk and choose the event.
- Click the 'Draw options' drop down menu on the right and choose 'Generate playoffs'.