Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Serve Tennis for USTA League Nationals Registration

The USTA has been working on what they call Serve Tennis, the site found with a Play Tennis URL, for a number of years, slowly rolling it out for more and more USTA events.  TennisLink is still used for USTA League for the most part (and I've heard nothing about when that might change), but Serve Tennis is used for registering for USTA League Nationals.

Serve Tennis has had some issues along the way as it was rolled out, so I was interested to see how it is working for an event like Nationals.

There are a few interesting quirks in using it for an event like this, I think due to Serve Tennis having been built, at least initially, and used for tournaments and not league play to this point.

One is that when signing up, even though you are on a team with singles and doubles courts, you are required to sign up for doubles as the only option.  The tournament page does explain this but it is an interesting quirk I'd think they'd fix soon.

Then after you register yourself, you are asked to find/assign/refer your doubles partner to sign-up.  This too is explained up front that you shouldn't do this but is a little extra noise one would hope wouldn't be there.

Another is that you are required to sign a waiver as you'd expect, but that is not done in Serve Tennis but instead in an entirely separate Jotform you have to copy/paste the URL in your browser to complete.  I'd hope this would be integrated into Serve Tennis in the future as I'm sure many will miss it and have to scramble to do it prior to playing.

But it worked!  Players are signing up for Nationals.

What has your experience been with Serve Tennis?

1 comment:

  1. Serve Tennis and the jot form are not mobile friendly.

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