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Find tennis courts & tournaments in Australia

Growth

62

Real, specific problem (free courts + tournament entry lists) with a clear wedge against Tennis Australia's clunky official app and Playtomic's booking-first model. Early stage (domain 2026) but the idea has room.

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About this app

Peanut Tennis is a free app that helps Australian tennis players find nearby courts (including free park courts) and sanctioned tournaments by state, age group, and date. It lists over 3,700 venues, 1,360+ free courts, and 149 upcoming tournaments, with details on lights, surface, and entry lists. The app is designed for competitive players, casual players, and parents managing junior tournaments, offering a streamlined, user-friendly experience.

Key features

  • 1Court finder with 3,824 venues including 1,348 free park courts, with lights and surface details.
  • 2Tournament discovery by state, age group and date, with entry lists visible before the draw.
  • 3Guides for parents, team managers and junior coordinators on CPP setup and match rules.

Target customer profile

Drawn from the product itself, not from a survey.

Demographic

Competitive tennis players (ages 16-35)

Pain points

Difficulty finding tournaments and seeing entry lists

Primary needs

Access to all sanctioned tournaments with filtering by state, age, and date

Demographic

Casual players and fitness enthusiasts (ages 25-45)

Pain points

Not knowing where free or nearby courts are

Primary needs

Quick discovery of courts with details on lights, surface, and access

Demographic

Parents of junior players (ages 35-50)

Pain points

Managing multiple tournament entries and schedules

Primary needs

Centralized tournament info and entry tracking for juniors

Scout Review

Written by AI from measured evidence, scored out of 100.

Peanut Tennis is a focused, fast, free Australian tennis companion that does two things well: find you a court (including the 1,348 free park ones) and find you a sanctioned tournament with entry lists visible before the draw. The landing page is clean and confident, the guides section is genuinely useful for parents and coordinators, and the technical execution — 99/100 mobile Lighthouse, full security headers, 100/100 accessibility — is well above what most indie sports tools manage. The weaknesses are depth and durability: thin content in some guide sections, no DMARC, no published security posture, and a free model that will need to sustain data upkeep on 3,824 venues and 135 tournaments. For Australian players tired of the official app, it's a genuinely better wedge.

Measure by measure

Usability

70

Core jobs are one click from the homepage, and the guides section is genuinely useful for parents and coordinators (CPP setup, umpire-less match rules). No signup friction described. Lacks in-app onboarding detail in the fetched content.

Design

74

Bold, confident hero with live venue counts and a clean two-job split between courts and tournaments. Guides page is well-organized by audience. Polished for an indie product, though the visual system is fairly utilitarian.

Speed

88

Lighthouse mobile 99/100 (LCP 910ms, CLS 0, TBT 0ms) and desktop 100/100. Lightweight static-feeling site with no heavy framework signals. Among the fastest sites in this catalogue.

Security

76

Full header suite present — HSTS, CSP, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy — plus SPF. DMARC is missing and there's no published security page, SOC 2 or bug bounty, which is normal for an early-stage free tool.

Accessibility

82

Lighthouse accessibility 100/100 with semantic headings and descriptive link text. No published a11y statement or multi-language support, but the automated audit is clean and the site is simple enough to be keyboard-friendly.

Growth

62

Real, specific problem (free courts + tournament entry lists) with a clear wedge against Tennis Australia's clunky official app and Playtomic's booking-first model. Early stage (domain 2026) but the idea has room.

Improvement areas

  • Missing DMARC record and no published security or privacy page.
  • Thin guide content for team managers and junior coordinators (two articles each).
  • No visible data-freshness signal for venue and tournament counts.

Design & Usability

Peanut Tennis has a landing page that knows exactly what it's selling: two buttons, two jobs, live counts of 3,824 venues and 1,348 free park courts. The design is utilitarian but confident — uppercase hero, clean split between court-finding and tournament-finding, and a guides section organized by audience (parents, team managers, junior coordinators) that actually answers the questions those people Google. Usability is strong for a free tool: no signup wall, one-click entry to both core flows, and practical how-tos on CPP setup and umpire-less match rules. The gap is depth — the team manager section has two articles, and there's no visible in-app onboarding or account system described. For an early-stage indie product, though, the execution is well above the category norm.

Speed & Security

Speed is the standout: Lighthouse mobile 99/100 with LCP 910ms, CLS 0 and TBT 0ms, and desktop 100/100. The site is lightweight and static-feeling, which is exactly what a court-finder should be — you're standing on a footpath deciding where to play, not waiting for a React bundle. Security is solid for the stage: HTTPS enforced, full header suite (HSTS, CSP, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy) and SPF. The gaps are DMARC (missing) and the absence of any published security page, SOC 2 or bug bounty — normal for a free early-stage tool, but worth closing as the user base grows. No breach history or incidents found in the collected evidence.

Accessibility & Growth

Accessibility scores 100/100 on Lighthouse with semantic headings and descriptive link text, and the site's simplicity makes keyboard navigation plausible — though there's no published a11y statement or multi-language support, which is fine for an Australia-only product. Growth is the interesting question: Peanut Tennis names a genuinely specific problem (free park courts are invisible, and tournament entry lists are buried) and targets three distinct segments — competitive players, casual players, and parents managing juniors. Its wedge against Tennis Australia is showing entries before the draw; against Playtomic it's free-court coverage; against Court Reserve it's tournament discovery rather than club ops. The category has headroom because the official app is widely disliked and the global players ignore free courts. The limit is monetization and data freshness — 135 upcoming tournaments and 3,824 venues need constant upkeep, and a free tool has to fund that somehow.

Conclusion

If you're an Australian tennis player, a parent managing junior entries, or someone who just wants to know which park has lights tonight, Peanut Tennis is worth a bookmark — it's faster and clearer than the official alternative for the two jobs it covers. The product earns its score on execution and focus, not on breadth. The next chapter is about depth: more guide content, a visible security posture, and a plan to keep venue and tournament data fresh as the user base grows. It's early, it's free, and it's pointed at a real gap. That's a better starting position than most.

Suggestions for improvement

  • Add DMARC to complete the email security posture — it's the one missing header.
  • Publish a short security/privacy page explaining data handling, even for a free tool.
  • Expand the Team Managers and Junior Coordinators guide sections beyond two articles each.
  • Add a lightweight 'recently updated' or data-freshness signal for venue and tournament counts.
How we score

Alternatives comparison

Named competitors, point by point. Nobody paid to appear here or to be left out.

Peanut TennisTennis AustraliaPlaytomicCourt Reserve
Free park court discoveryYes — 1,348 free park courts listed with lights and surfaceLimited — court finder exists but free-court coverage is thinNo — booking-first, limited free court listings in AustraliaNo — club booking and management, not public court discovery
Tournament discovery with entry listsYes — 135 upcoming tournaments, entry lists before the drawYes — official tournament registration and listingsNo — focused on match play and court bookingNo — club operations, not tournament discovery
Filter by state, age group and dateYes — core filtering across all three dimensionsPartial — official listings but clunky filteringNo — not tournament-focusedNo — not tournament-focused
Free to useYes — free appYes — free official appFreemium — booking fees applyNo — paid club software
Guides for parents and coordinatorsYes — CPP setup, match rules, team manager and coordinator guidesPartial — official resources but not organized by audienceNo — no parent/coordinator guidesNo — club admin docs only

Tennis Australia

Official app for Australian tennis, offering tournament registration and court finder features.

Playtomic

Global app for booking tennis courts and joining matches, but with limited free court listings in Australia.

Court Reserve

Court booking and management app used by clubs, but not focused on tournament discovery.

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