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 visable in the public draw in Public Draw Settings.
How to Create and Publish a Draw
Playoffs and availability of the 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.
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Click Make Draw.
- Ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc) before clicking Make Draw.
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Upon clicking Add Draw, you will enter the draw details.
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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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There are two Creation method options listed in the last drop-down box:
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Once you have input the details, click Make draw. Your draw will now be created.
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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.
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Draw size is automatically determined by tournament desk based on the number of players in your main draw, for example:
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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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If you need to redo the draw you can click Draw options and then Delete draw.
- The system will require a reason as to why the draw was deleted.
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Publish and Unpublish Draws
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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.
- 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.
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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.
To edit the view:
In the Events Tab 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. The below is what is set as default.
- Adornment- Here you can chose to show player's WTN. This will also show Players WTN in the draw in Tournament desk.
- Match Day Information- by unchecking the boxes they will be removed from the view of the public view.
You can check the players view, by clicking on View on USTA.com from the drop down next to the tournament name, found top right.
Example of public view below:
Playoffs and availability of the playoffs
Please check with your section and Friends at Court if you are not sure, the below is a guide but there are also exception 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