Play pickleball

A: Anyone can sign up and play pickleball with UTR Sports for free.

UTR Sports offers pickleball players several key benefits:

1. Find Matches Easily: Quickly discover local matches, events, and pickleball players at your skill level.

2. Accurate Skill Tracking: Track your pickleball rating accurately with the industry-leading UTR-P Rating system.

3. Personalized Play: Enjoy tailored recommendations for pickleball matches and tournaments based on your skill level and preferences.

4. Progress Insights: Get detailed pickleball analytics on your game performance to identify areas for improvement.

5. Join Competitive Events: Easily find and register for pickleball tournaments, leagues, and flex play opportunities in your area.

6. Community Connection: Connect with other pickleball players, join clubs, and build your pickleball network effortlessly.

Overall, UTR helps pickleball players of all levels improve their game, find suitable opponents, and enjoy pickleball more than ever before.

A: Yes, you can sign up for a pickleball profile completely free. For additional benefits, consider our Power Subscription, which unlocks advanced features designed to help you easily find matches, track your skill level, and get more enjoyment out of your game.

A: Everyone! UTR Sports streamlines the steps to get you on the court and competing with players is your level. Pickleball will be at your fingertips—improve, connect, and enjoy the game.

A. Select what you are searching for: pickleball tournaments, flex pickleball leagues, etc. You can then narrow down your search by location, date range, event series, type and more.

A. Equipped with over a decade of expertise as the creator of the gold-standard UTR Rating for tennis, UTR Sports offers the most accurate and reliable global rating for pickleball.

The UTR Pickleball Rating (UTR-P) is designed to rate every kind of player, whether you're swinging your first paddle or smashing through pro-level tournaments. The UTR-P includes both provisional and numerical ratings for singles and doubles players.

Players without match results logged will receive a provisional rating (P1-P5) based on a questionnaire. After one match, the player will receive a projected rating, and after seven matches, the rating automatically converts to a reliable decimal rating on a scale of 1.0 - 10.0 (from beginner to expert/pro).

A. The UTR-P Rating is free for players and unlike other rating systems, UTR Sports has no plans to ever charge for their ratings.

The rating systems are very different in terms of their approaches and how the ratings are calculated. The UTR-P is an ageless, genderless, and borderless scale from 1.0-10.0, updating every 24 hours. The UTPR is a tournament-only rating system for the United States on a scale from 1.0 to 6.0.

The UTR-P Rating has several advantages over the other rating systems. One key element is that UTR-P separates self-reported scores from organized/verified match results. This unique feature provides reliability to competitive play and helps drastically reduce sandbagging.

Also, the UTR-P rating has a strong and fast-growing pool of connected players, which provides for an accurate global rating. The UTR-P Rating is also more accurate than points-based ranking systems. It is several percentage points more accurate than today’s pro points-based rankings.