Introducing Clubs: Your Club's Home on RallyHub
Your club is more than a set of courts. It is a noticeboard, a coaching roster, a member list, and a season. Clubs pulls all of it into one home so members know what is going on without asking around.
By Two brothers in Melbourne, co-founder of RallyHub.
Deuce is dressed for the clubhouse, because your club is more than a set of courts. It is a noticeboard, a coaching roster, a member list, and a season, and Clubs pulls all of it into one place.
Most tennis clubs run on a mix of a Facebook group, a printed timetable taped to the clubhouse window, and a committee member's memory. Clubs on RallyHub gives your club a proper home: somewhere members can see the courts, the coaches, the notices, and what is on, without having to ask around.
What it is
Clubs is the directory and home page for tennis clubs on RallyHub. You can browse clubs around Australia, join the one you belong to, and then tap into your own club to see its courts, coaching, noticeboard, members, and events. It is the difference between "I think we have courts free on Tuesday" and actually knowing.
How it works
- Find and join. Browse the club directory, find yours, and join it. Your club then becomes your home base for everything club-related.
- Your club, at a glance. Your home club shows its courts and their surfaces, the coaching on offer, the noticeboard, the member list, and upcoming events.
- Courts that update. Court status, surface, and bookings come straight from the club's Courts setup, so what you see is what is actually available.
- It feeds the competition layer. Club membership is what plugs you into seasons, pennant, and club competitions when your club runs them.
How to use it
- Open /clubs to browse, or /clubs/mine to go straight to your own.
- Join your club if you have not already. That unlocks its noticeboard, members, and events.
- Check the courts before you head down, so you are not turning up to a full or closed court.
- Read the noticeboard for working bees, social nights, and comp news, all in one spot instead of three group chats.
Why we built it
Clubs are the heart of tennis in Australia, and most of them are run by a handful of volunteers doing it after work. The information is all there, it is just scattered, and the same questions get asked in the group chat every week. Giving a club one tidy home, with its courts, coaches, notices, and people in one place, takes a load off the volunteers and means members actually know what is going on.
An honest note
Seasons and club competitions are tied to club membership and your team, never to a subscription plan. If you are on a club's roster, a lapsed plan never locks you out of the season you are already playing. Joining a club is about belonging, not billing.
Cheers, the RallyHub team
Quick context if you are new here: RallyHub is an Australian social tennis platform built by two brothers. Invite-only beta. More blog posts here.