Is Xporty free for tennis tournaments?

Up to a point. The free plan covers one active competition with up to 20 players, one category and two phases, such as groups followed by playoffs. Past that you buy a Premium plan per competition: €30 up to 50 players, €75 up to 150, €125 up to 300 and €168 up to 400 (prices read on 25 October 2026). JudgeMate has no paid plan, so a draw of any size with several categories costs nothing.

Can Xporty set match tie-breaks and short sets?

Their tennis, standings and formats pages, read on 25 October 2026, describe tables built from wins, sets and a formula editor, but they do not describe how the match itself is scored. Ask them before you plan a short-format event. In JudgeMate you set the match format for the whole draw: 4, 6 or 9 games a set, tie-break to 5 or 7, match tie-break to 10 in place of the deciding set, and the deciding point instead of advantage. For one match you can switch the deciding point and the match tie-break, and change games and sets from the match board. Short sets to 4, the deciding point and the match tie-break to 10 come from ITF Appendix VI.

Can JudgeMate run a tennis league with promotion and relegation?

No. A league in JudgeMate has fixtures, results and a table, and each entry is one player. There are no divisions that re-sort players between phases. Xporty has that league type and says it is used mainly in padel and tennis. If your winter league works by levels, run it there.

Can I collect entry fees in JudgeMate?

No. JudgeMate records whether each entry has paid, was waived or is unmarked, and that is all. Xporty takes the fee inside the registration form through Stripe, a virtual POS or Flow, with the money going to the organiser's account. If online payment is a requirement, Xporty covers it and we do not.

Which one handles interclub team competitions?

Xporty. Its team leagues are built from ties, each with a set number of singles and doubles, and captains enter lineups and propose dates. In JudgeMate a tennis draw entry is one player or one pair, so a tie of two singles and a doubles cannot be entered as one match.

Can I use JudgeMate only for live scoring while the draw stays in Xporty?

Yes. A single-match tennis scoreboard opens without a draw, follows points, games, sets and serve, and shows them on any screen. The two systems do not talk to each other, so the final score has to be entered in Xporty by hand after the match.

Xporty Alternative for Tennis Tournaments

Season leagues, rankings and payments on one side; ITF short formats and point-by-point scoring on the other

Last updated: October 27, 2026

Xporty is Spanish tournament and league software for tennis, padel, pickleball and squash. It collects entry fees online, ranks players by level, moves them between divisions in a league and runs interclub ties of singles and doubles. The free plan covers one active competition with up to 20 players, one category and two phases; above that you pay €30 to €168 per competition. JudgeMate costs nothing at any draw size, sets the ITF short formats per draw or per match and scores each match point by point. It does not take payments, rank players by level or run team ties.

What Xporty is

Xporty is made by Xporty Software S.L., a company registered in Cádiz, Spain. Its tennis page puts the scope in one line: "singles, doubles, leagues, round robins, groups + playoffs, leveled rankings, team leagues, and knockouts". The same platform covers padel, pickleball, squash and team sports such as football and basketball; their formats page says more than 30 sports.

The tennis offer is built around the season more than the single weekend. A league splits players into groups by level and moves them up and down between phases. A team league is made of ties, each one a set number of singles and doubles with lineups entered by captains. A circuit can publish a points ranking over the last 52 weeks, and a separate level ranking gives more credit for beating a stronger opponent. Registration collects the entry fee through Stripe, a virtual POS or Flow, and the money goes into the organiser's account.

Around that sit the tools a club secretary expects: automatic court and time assignment from player availability, a court calculator, knockout brackets with consolation and a third-place match, PDF printouts, and a website and app where players follow results and get notifications.

The interface comes in nine languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, Swedish and two variants each of English and Portuguese. A separate Chile page shows the same prices with an approximate amount in Chilean pesos.

For how the formats themselves work, see the tennis tournament formats guide.

Pricing side by side

Xporty publishes its prices per competition. In their definition a competition is a tournament of one or several days or a league of a few weeks to several months; one that runs longer than a year has to be renewed.

Plan	Price per competition (read 25 October 2026)	Size limit
Xporty Free	€0	1 active competition, up to 20 players, 1 category, 2 phases
Xporty Premium I	€30	Up to 50 players
Xporty Premium II	€75	Up to 150 players
Xporty Premium III	€125	Up to 300 players
Xporty Premium IV	€168	Up to 400 players
JudgeMate	€0	No paid tier and no player cap on a draw

Players are counted across all categories of the competition. Each extra player beyond the plan costs €1, and booking more than three competitions takes 20% off. You can upgrade at any point by paying the difference. A branded website is €160 a year, and a branded app adds €480 a year on top of the website.

The free plan's limits bite a tennis club in a particular way. Two phases are enough for groups followed by a knockout. One category is not enough for a club championship with men's singles, women's singles and a doubles event, so that goes straight to Premium. A 24-player singles draw is already past the 20-player line. And only Premium competitions can be published at the same time as another one, so the winter league and the open weekend cannot both sit on the free plan.

Feature comparison

Both build tennis draws in singles and doubles, put courts on a schedule and publish results. The split runs between the season tools on Xporty's side and the match format and live scoring on ours.

Capability	Xporty	JudgeMate
Singles and doubles	Yes	Yes. Singles by default, doubles with one switch
Draw formats	Knockout, double knockout, round robin, groups plus playoffs, ladders	Knockout, round robin, groups plus knockout
Consolation and third place	Yes, both	Yes. Consolation as one round or a full draw, plus a third-place match
Match format	Not described on the pages we read	For the whole draw: 4, 6 or 9 games a set, tie-break to 5 or 7, match tie-break to 10 in place of the deciding set, deciding point instead of advantage. For one match: deciding point and match tie-break, plus games and sets from the match board
Point-by-point scoring	Not described; their tennis page says players enter results from the web or the app	Live board for points, games, sets and serve; the final score goes into the draw
Leagues with promotion and relegation	Yes, groups by level, re-sorted between phases	No. A league has fixtures and a table, without divisions
Team ties of singles and doubles	Yes, captains enter lineups	No. A draw entry is one player or one pair
Rankings	Level ranking and a 52-week circuit points ranking	Series ranking across events, by finishing place
Entry fees	Collected through Stripe, a virtual POS or Flow	Recorded only: paid, waived or unmarked
Court scheduling	Automatic from court availability and player time preferences	Auto-schedule from a start time and slot length, with conflict detection
Standings rules	Formula editor, bonus and penalty points	Your choice: ITF Juniors Reg. 57 (default in a new tennis draw), PZT IV.7.4 or your own match points; ties then go to head-to-head, then set ratio and game ratio (fixed order). A league offers ITF and PZT in Settings, plus two presets: head-to-head first or set ratio first
Player app	iOS and Android, with notifications	Web only, no notifications
Organiser price	Free to 20 players, then €30–€168 per competition	€0

When Xporty fits

Pick Xporty when your tennis year is a season with money and levels in it.

You run a winter league with divisions. Players start in groups by level and move up or down when a new phase begins. Their formats page says this league type is used mainly in padel and tennis.
Your club plays interclub ties. You set how many singles and doubles make up each tie, captains enter lineups and propose dates, and the table follows the ties. JudgeMate cannot run this format.
You need to collect entry fees. Stripe, a virtual POS or Flow sit inside the registration form, and the place is confirmed once the payment goes through.
Players want a level. The level ranking estimates each player's category and steers them towards the right draw. A circuit can add a points ranking over 52 weeks with its own points per position.
Players arrange their own matches. With the match scheduler on, they propose dates in the app and the opponent accepts, and the record shows who agreed to what.
You want your own branded app. €160 a year for the website and €480 for an app in your colours, maintained by them.

If the calendar is a division league, an interclub competition and a ranked circuit, Xporty is built for exactly that.

When JudgeMate fits

Pick JudgeMate when the event is one tournament and the match format matters.

The ITF Appendix VI short formats are settings. Short sets to 4 games with a tie-break at 4:4, the deciding point at deuce and a match tie-break to 10 in place of the deciding set come from Appendix VI. The settings also offer sets to 6 or 9 games and a tie-break to 5 or 7. You set the format for the whole draw, and the deciding point and match tie-break for one match as well, so the group stage can play short and the final can play full sets.
The ITF junior group format is one setting. ITF J30 and J60 groups play "best of two Tie-Break sets and a Match Tie-Break (10 point) in place of a third set". Here that is two sets to win, 6 games and the match tie-break switched on.
Singles comes first. A tennis draw starts with individual players. Doubles is a switch in the same creator.
Matches are scored live. The board follows points, games and sets, keeps the serve order through the tie-break and sends the final score to the draw. Xporty's pages describe results entered once the match is over.
Past 20 players it is still free. A 32-player championship with three categories, a consolation draw and a third-place match costs nothing.
An umpire per court without an account. Each match has its own QR code; the umpire scans it and can enter only that match.
Players report, the opponent confirms. With one switch players enter the scores of group, round robin and league matches and the opponent confirms them, so the desk does not chase results in the evening. Knockout, consolation and third-place matches are closed by you or the umpire.

Start in the tournament creator, or open a tennis scoreboard for a single match.

Where JudgeMate falls short

Measured against Xporty, this is where we lose.

No payments. We record who has paid, who was waived and who has not. No money passes through JudgeMate.
No level ranking. No rating, no estimated category, no reliability score. The series ranking adds up finishing places across events.
No promotion and relegation. A league here has fixtures and a table. Moving the top players up a division for the next phase means building a new draw by hand.
No team ties. A tennis draw entry is one player or one pair. An interclub tie of singles and doubles with captain lineups does not exist here.
No final-set tie-break to 10. ITF Appendix VI lets the deciding set run to 6:6 and close with a tie-break to 10. Our match tie-break takes the place of the whole deciding set, so that format cannot be set up. A match tie-break to 7 is not offered either.
Every set has a tie-break, at n:n. An advantage set without one, a tie-break at 3:3 in short sets and the deciding point at 4:4 in the 5-point tie-break are not available. Our tie-break is always won by two.
Nothing reaches the players by itself. No email, no SMS, no push, no app.
No formula editor. You pick a ready rule set (ITF Juniors Reg. 57, PZT IV.7.4) or set your own match points; ties then go to head-to-head, then set ratio and game ratio, in that fixed order. Bonus and penalty points are not available.
Four interface languages. English, Polish, German and Spanish, against Xporty's nine.

Running both without doubling the work

The two split along a clear line, season against single event.

Keep the season in Xporty. The division league, the interclub ties, the circuit ranking and paid registration belong together there.
Run the one-off events here. A club championship over a weekend, a junior day in short sets, a round robin evening with match tie-breaks.
Split by event, never inside one. Nothing syncs: there is no shared player list and no live link between the two. If Xporty gives you the start list as an .xlsx or .csv file, load it with the Excel import in JudgeMate. The import looks for a name column headed userName or Name, so check the columns first. Otherwise, type the names into the JudgeMate template. After that, a change in one does not reach the other.
Borrow the board for a final. A match from an Xporty draw can still run point by point on a tennis scoreboard on a court-side screen. The final score then goes into Xporty by hand.

For the weekend half, the tennis tournament organiser guide covers draw size, courts and timing.

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Frequently asked questions

Sources

Xporty — plans and prices — Xporty Software S.L.
Xporty — software to create tennis tournaments and leagues — Xporty Software S.L.
Xporty — competition types — Xporty Software S.L.
Xporty — team leagues — Xporty Software S.L.
Xporty — legal notice and terms — Xporty Software S.L.
ITF Rules of Tennis 2026 — International Tennis Federation (ITF)
ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors Regulations 2026 — International Tennis Federation (ITF)