Take a look at what's new with Tournaments!
Choose from the links below to learn about the tournament features added in a specific release. Then, to learn more about a feature, click the link below each description.
You can also attend a Tournament webinar for a demo. Click here for the schedule.
| Tournament Features by Release Date | |
| May 29, 2025 | September 12, 2024 |
| April 7 , 2025 | July 30, 2024 |
| January 21, 2025 | July 2, 2024 |
| December 3, 2024 | June 4, 2024 |
| November 5, 2024 | May 9, 2024 |
| October 8, 2024 | April 8, 2024 |
Release on May 29, 2025
High Schools | Player Roster Report
State Staff are able to access and export player roster data from Serve Control. The export includes Player Name, Age, Gender, Date Added to Roster, Area, League, USTA Section Where School Is Located, Total Player Dual Match Wins, Total Player Dual Match Losses, and Total Dual Matches Played.
Player Roster Report for State Staff
High Schools | Auto/Manual Results Report
High School State administrators can access a report that tracks match scoring methods (automatic versus manual), which allows administrators to identify and investigate any discrepancies related to missing match scores.
High Schools | Team Match Results Report
High School State administrators can access a Team results report from Serve Control. This report will allow admins to analyze team performance and assist with team rankings.
High Schools | Activity Report
High school State Administrators can access an Activity Report that provides a comprehensive summary of schools, players, teams, matches, and other relevant data for each state.
Release on April 29, 2025
Tournaments | Wheelchair
Tournament directors are able to submit wheelchair tournament applications for Coed, Boys, and Girls 18 & Under Junior Open divisions.
Tournaments | Tournament Desk
Tournament Directors can clear scores from the draw bracket menu.
Team Tournament Score Entry and Scorecard Management
High Schools | Swap Player
An administrator can swap player names while preserving the existing scores.
Score Entry and Match Collections
High School | Add Player from Team
The Add Player from Teams modal was enhanced. It now lets users add team players to a tournament in two steps.
Adding Players from Teams to a High School Tournament
High School | TD | Print PDF with Team Abbreviation
The Tournament Director will have the ability to print a PDF draw that displays the team's abbreviation next to the player's name.
View/Edit Teams within a High School Tournament
High Schools | TD | Draw Settings
In order to display school affiliation below each player's name in the public view tournament draw, Tournament Directors have the option to add School as an additional display option in the Public Draw settings.
High Schools | Serve Control | Level Configuration
Admins have control over displaying school names in Tournament Desk. A toggle in Serve Control Level Config enables or disables the school name display. Enabling shows school columns and settings, while disabling hides them.
View/Edit Teams within a High School Tournament
Release on April 7 , 2025
Tournaments | Wheelchair
Wheelchair player are allowed to register up a division. For example, a Coed B player will be able to participate in Coed A tournaments.
Tournaments | Wheelchair
Tournament Directors are able to override ball color to enter players in wheelchair events. PlayTracker rules for wheelchair tournaments have been removed, allowing players 11 and under to register.
Serve Control | Find Tournament
Section and District staff will now be able to filter by tournament name, tournament ID and venue name to locate tournaments in Serve Control.
How to Edit a Tournament in Serve Control
High Schools | URL Redirect
The current URLs https://highschools.usta.com/ and https://highschools.usta.com/state were redirected to the centralized destination page https://www.usta.com/en/home/play/high-school-tennis.html.
High Schools | School Search
The School Search functionality on the High School State Landing page will be enhanced by implementing Atlas Search. This enhancement will also be applied to the Dual Match search on the Schedule page. As a user types one or more characters into the search field, the top 20 matching schools will be displayed.
High Schools | Serve Control
High School State Staff have the ability to control the visibility of Team and Individual WTNs on the High school platform.
Release on January 21, 2025
Tournament Desk | Safe Play Notifications
A Notification Center was developed within Tournament Desk which will alert Tournament Directors and referees of Safe Play expiry.
How to Renew Your Safe Play Approval
Tournament Desk | Qualifying Draws
Tournament Directors can automatically assign qualifying winners to the main draw.
Tournament Desk | Tournament Groups
Players can register for multiple locations but can only be accepted into one Main Draw.
Tournament Registration | NTRP
Adult NTRP registration will prevent 17 year olds and younger from registering for Adult NTRP.
High Schools | Serve Control | Add School
State administrators can add a school to the database if the school is not found.
High Schools | Serve Control | Teams
High Schools State Staff can filter by city and state when adding a team to a conference in Serve Control.
Conference Structure Creation (Area/Sub-Area)
Release on December 3, 2024
Tournament Desk | Delete Separate Structures
For Qualifying and Voluntary Consolation tournaments, Tournament Directors have the ability to delete draw structures separately (e.g. Main draw, Qualifying draw).
Serve Control | Level Configuration Tournament Messaging
Tournament Messaging can now be added by Section/district staff to display across all tournaments within that level.
Tournament Messaging by Section/District Staff
Public | Overview Page
Tournament participants and administrators will be able to view all linked tournament locations on the overview page.
Serve Control | Tournaments
Serve Control tournaments CSV download now includes a Last Name column to the process for administrators to search and locate the appropriate Tournament Director.
Tournaments | Stripe Checkout
The USTA platform has been updated with a new Stripe Checkout version.
Release on November 5, 2024
Tournament Desk | Publish Draws
Tournament Directors now have the flexibility to publish draws independently for Main Draw, Qualifying Draws, and Voluntary Consolation Draws.
Tournament Desk | Potential Conflicts
Scheduled and non-scheduled potential conflicts will display in the Conflict Report in Tournament Desk.
How to Use Conflict Reports in Tournament Desk
Tournaments| Linked Facilities
USTA Customer Care will oversee the creation of new facilities. Tournament Directors and Program admins can search our database of over 65,000 facilities and add a facility to programs and tournaments. If they are unable to locate the desired facility, they can submit a facility request form.
Release on October 8, 2024
Tournament Desk | Auto-Scheduler
Tournament Directors have the ability to define the scheduling period time intervals beyond the existing 30 minute interval available for auto-scheduling. Additional options include 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute and 20 minute intervals allowing for greater customization over the tournament schedule.
Auto-Scheduling for Tournaments
Order of Events Within Tournament Desk and Serve Tennis
Events are now ordered by gender and age to allow for easy location of events within the tournament.
High Schools | Teams
Team Coordinators have the ability to enter a score for a dual match that is part of a tournament.
High School - Score Entry and Match Collections
Release on September 12, 2024
Public | Draw
Ability to display draws embedded into a website at the specified URL.
High Schools | Teams
Tournament matches will be automatically added to Teams schedule, if turned on in Serve Control. Tournament Directors have the ability to define the scheduling period time intervals beyond the existing 30 minute interval available for auto-scheduling. Additional options include 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute and 20 minute intervals allowing for greats customization over the tournament schedule.
High Schools | Teams
Team Schedules will display the related conference.
Release on July 30, 2024
Tournament Desk | Player Profile
Ability to edit and add emails and phone numbers to Player's Profile in Tournament Desk. Note updates are only for the particular tournament updated and will not update USTA profile.
Player Profile in Tournament Desk
Tournament Desk | High Schools
When non-logged-in users visit either the Teams or Public tournaments site, they will be prompted to learn more about the Safe Sport training courses.
Release on July 2, 2024
Serve Tennis | Tournaments | Custom Form for Tournaments
Ability to download answers to custom forms feature added in the last release.
Custom Forms Programing and Tournaments
Serve Tennis | Tournaments | Rankings
International players are allowed to compete in Junior Level 5 Open, Level 6, and Level 7 tournaments. International players that have ranking points will appear on the ranking lists.
Release on June 4, 2024
Serve Tennis | Tournaments | Custom Form for Tournaments
Ability to create custom forms to collect customized information from participants at Tournament Registration.
*Please note that submitted answers will not be viewable until R231 (July release)
Serve Control | Suspensions
In Serve Control, Section and District administrators will now be able to view a list of all players with violation points, regardless of section or district affiliation. They can also filter the list by section or district. Per the competition committee ruling, Section staff will no longer be able to have access to the Suspend Player action in the active violations page in Serve Control. Only National and Global Admin will have access to action a suspension.
Player Suspensions in Serve Control
Serve Control, Serve Tennis, Tournament Desk | WTN rating
In Serve Control, Serve Tennis, and Tournament Desk, players' WTN ratings will now be displayed with two decimal points. This two-decimal-point format will also be reflected in the High School & Tennis On Campus platforms.
WTN Confidence Level Breakdown
Release on May 9, 2024
Stripe Payment Account Identity Verification
Enhanced security measures by implements additional identity verification when creating/linking a payment account with Stripe to mitigate potential breaches.
Connecting To Stripe Express for Serve Tennis
Release on April 8, 2024
Tournament Desk | Adding a Player via Tournament Desk
Tournament Directors will now be able to add players to a tournament right from Tournament Desk.
Manually Adding a Player to a Tournament
Seeding | Ability to Save Group Seeding on the Manual Seeding Table
Using manual seeding a tournament director can enter seeds with the same value and manually entered values will propagate to generated draws, except for flighted events.
Create, Publish, Delete Draws and Manual and Automatic Seeding
Round Robin Redesign
Round robin draws have been optimized both for mobile and desktop on the public website. The design has been switched from a grid view to a group listing view. Customers can choose to switch between a standings view and a round view. The Standings view will show:
- Number of matches played
- Match Win-Loss record
- Set Win-Loss
- Game Win-Loss
Viewing Tournaments, Draws, and Match Information and Creating A Round Robin Draw in Tournaments
Enable Draw Properties for Round Robin
Tournament Directors and referees can now apply draw properties to round-robin draws. This gives them the ability to show:
- Additional player information
- WTN
- Match day information
Level Configuration Syncing Improvements
USTA staff with Serve Control access will now be able to make changes in level configuration and the changes will be made to Tournament Desk as well. It will no longer matter if Tournament Desk is launched or not.
Locked Level Configuration (Score & Draw Formats) FAQs for Section Staff
WTN Play Events | Enforce Play Tracker Ball Color Validation
Ability to enforce ball color based on division and applying age checks based on the band TD selected for the tournament.
Creating a WTN Play Tournament
Events | Change Score Format for Multiple Events
In case of a need to change a score format in bulk (i.e rain delay) TD will be able to edit formats across multiple events and also across all stages on the draw, i.e. in compass draw, it can update, EAST , WEST, NORTH WEST etc. Please note, this feature is not yet available in team events.
New Score Formats Added to Level Configuration
- Two out of three no advantage short sets to 6 with 7-point tiebreak at 5 games all - SET3-S:6/TB7@5
- Best of 5 sets in the 5th set, 10 point match tiebreak at 6-6 - SET5-S:6-F:6/TB10
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Renaming of the following format:
- Timed 20 minute match - game based to Timed match - game based
Referee Invitations Enhancements
Many enhancements were made to the referee assignment process. Improvements include:
- Referees will now be able to decline invitations directly from a new referee invitation management page. Previously they had to decline invitations by contacting the tournament director offline. This feature also includes the deployment of multiple notification emails:
- TD Invited Referee Notification to Referee
- Referee Acceptance Notification to TD
- Referee Decline Notification to TD
- TD removed Referee Notification to Referee
- Once a Referee accepts the assignment their name and email address will be displayed on the tournament homepage. Referees will also be able to control which email address they want to show on the tournament homepages. This can be different from their USTA login email address.
Tournament Settings (to invite the referee) and Accepting / Declining a Referee Invite and Access to the tournament (for the referee)
Order of Play Enhancements
The order of play component has been enhanced to allow tournament directors and referees to share a link to any tab on public site order of play including matches in progress, completed matches and not started matches. This is a great feature to share results with media. Regardless if a TD publishes the order of play component the completed matches tab with results will be displayed on the tournament homepage.
Tech Improvements:
- Scorecards PDF
- Tech | Move PDF import generation to backend service
- iOS | Public Tournament Search | Date period provided while searching tournament get decremented by 1 day after clicking the Search button in tournament search page
- iOS | Doubles Partner selection is distorted on player’s my Game page when player set with looking partner and also has invited request
- Match Times on the list view not showing up correctly - they now are.
- Split draws - auto seed is now working as it should within the split draws