Matches

A Specific Match is one you've already worked out: you set the time, the court and the format, and either invite a named player or leave the slot open for someone to request. It stays up until its scheduled time passes. An Open Post is for when you don't have the details yet. You pick the suburbs you can get to, roughly when you're free, and post that. Other players propose a specific time and place; you accept, counter, or decline each proposal. An Open Post that nobody locks in expires after 7 days.

They decide whether the match counts. Competitive needs a real score. Both of you enter the sets afterwards, and both ratings move. Friendly is just a hit. There are no sets to enter — you both mark the match complete and nothing happens to either rating. You choose this when you create the match, and it's shown on the match card before anyone commits.

+ → Create Event → Create Match, then switch to Specific Match and search for them by name. You can search any player, not only people you've already added. There's no countdown on the invitation. A specific match sits there until its scheduled time passes; if they never respond, it simply lapses.

An Open Post never carries an address at all — it advertises suburbs, so what shows on the map is an area, not a court. A Specific Match does have a street address, and while the match is still open the card shows only the venue name. The full address appears once someone has joined.

Open the match and enter your sets. So does your opponent — Frienemi doesn't have one player enter and the other rubber-stamp it; you both submit, independently. If you agree on who won each set, the match completes and both ratings move. Game counts don't have to match exactly: the first version submitted becomes the record. The margin matters. Winning 6-2 moves your rating more than winning 7-6, and it works the same way in every sport — the app scales the margin to that sport's set length.

After 48 hours we accept the version that was submitted, and the rating change goes through. Your opponent gets a notification telling them what happened. The sweep runs every six hours rather than continuously, so in practice it lands somewhere between 48 and 54 hours after you submitted.

The match is voided. Nobody's rating moves, in either direction, and the result isn't recorded. We void rather than adjudicate because there is no evidence to adjudicate on — nobody was there but the two of you. If the disagreement wasn't honest, that's a conduct matter: use Report Opponent on the match.

Open the match and use Report Opponent, which has a no-show option. Reports are private — the person you report is not told you filed one. Two things worth being straight about. Reports are read by us, not acted on automatically: a report doesn't itself suspend anyone. And in the app the Report Opponent button appears once a match has finished or been voided, so reporting a no-show that stopped the match from happening at all is not something the current build handles well. Cancelling or leaving a match within 2 hours of its start time costs you 10 fairplay points. That one is automatic.

Play Now is for when you're both already at the court. + → Play Now shows a QR code; the other player scans it, you confirm the sport, and you're paired — no posting, no waiting. Afterwards, either phone can enter the score. The other player gets it as a notification and can confirm it or flag it. If they do neither, it finalises on its own after 30 minutes, and the rating change happens then. Started from a club's page, the match counts toward that club's ladder — unless the person you scanned isn't a member, in which case the app says so and records it as an ordinary match.