Overview
Peanut Tennis is a tennis court finder and tournament directory for Australian players. The site catalogues 3,737 venues nationwide, including 1,361 free park courts, and tracks sanctioned tournaments by state, age group and date. It is an independent, Australia-made project that states plainly it has no affiliation with Tennis Australia or UTR Sports.
Key Features
Nearest-first court search. The courts section orders park courts, clubs and tennis centres by distance, so a player in an unfamiliar suburb gets a usable shortlist instead of a map full of scattered pins to untangle.
A free court filter that earns its place. Of the venues indexed, 1,361 are free park courts. City pages do most of the work here, with 152 free courts in Melbourne and 174 in Sydney, each on its own landing page.
Court details that answer the practical question. Listings record the surface, whether the lights work for an evening hit, and how to actually get on court, which is the part most directories leave out.
Every sanctioned tournament in one place. At the time of writing, 149 tournaments are listed as coming up, broken down by state: 63 in Victoria, 30 in Queensland, 29 in New South Wales, 13 in South Australia, 6 in Western Australia, 4 in the ACT and 4 in Tasmania.
Entry lists before the draw lands. Players can check who has entered a tournament before the draw is published, which helps when deciding whether a field is worth the drive or the flight.
Guides and by-laws in plain English. A help section explains UTR ratings, tournament tiers, ball colours and what a first tournament actually involves, alongside association by-laws translated out of legalese into something readable.
Use Cases
Two kinds of players get the most out of it. The first is a club-level hitter who wants a session on a Tuesday night without paying for it, so they filter to free park courts in their city and check which ones have lights. The second is a junior or a parent planning a season: pick a state, narrow by age group and date, then scan entry lists before committing to a weekend of travel.
The value sits in the pairing. Most directories handle courts or handle tournaments. This one does both, and it does them with enough detail that the answer is genuinely useful rather than a scraped address.
