By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, December 4, 2025
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AI-powered know-how is making tennis court docket reserving a extra environment friendly expertise.
CourtsApp, the primary AI-powered advertising and reserving platform constructed to modernize court docket advertising and reservations throughout racquet sports activities business, at this time introduced its official tender launch all through the New York tri-state space.
Founders Daren Hornig, an actual property developer, and inventive govt Kate Daggett, say CourtsApp is designed “to remove the frustration and friction that have lengthy plagued the tennis and pickleball communities, making it now seamless and straightforward to order a court docket in any racquet and paddle sport.”
The App is at present dwell to gamers with greater than 1,500 courts throughout greater than 150 amenities all through New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Founders purpose to broaden CourtsApp from Maine to Florida by the primary quarter of 2026 earlier than increasing market-by-market.
Within the Tri-State space, golf equipment together with the John McEnroe Academy’s flagship location at Sportime Randalls Island, Pickleball America, Padel Haus, all Sportime Pickleball places and extra are at present obtainable for gamers to order courts.
CourtsApp was created after founders have been pissed off making an attempt to e book court docket time in very busy New York-area golf equipment.
“CourtsApp was born from pure frustration,” stated Hornig, Chief Govt Officer of CourtsApp and an avid tennis and pickleball participant. “For years, me and my mates struggled to seek out open courts in actual time and close to the place I needed to play.
“We needed a easy, dependable resolution that matched how individuals already e book eating places, journey, or health. Now, with CourtsApp, they lastly have one.”
Free for gamers to hitch the platform at CourtsApp.com and to obtain from the Apple App Retailer for iOS and Google Play Retailer for Android, CourtsApp touts it supplies:
- Straightforward search features throughout tennis, pickleball, padel amenities, in addition to desk tennis, squash, badminton and racquetball
- Actual-time reserving confirmations
- Map View
- Safe cost by way of Stripe and Apple Pay
- A well-known, “OpenTable-style” consumer expertise
So how do the founders monetize CourtsApp?
They are saying “CourtsApp features as a free, performance-based advertising channel. Amenities can be part of for free of charge, with CourtsApp incomes a fee on court docket time bookings.”
