Why we built this
The best part of a good game is the people. We built MYOPL so you never lose them.
You played a great match, added someone on the spot, and then the season ended and so did the group chat. MYOPL exists to fix that: one home for the courts you play, the people you meet, and the games worth remembering.
The problem with a good game
A great open-play session leaves you with a new friend, a group chat that will fizzle out in a month, and a scoreline nobody wrote down. The court finds you a game. It rarely helps you keep the community that formed around it.
We kept watching the same thing happen: real relationships built on real courts, scattered across text threads, sign-up sheets, and rating apps that only cared about tournaments. So we built the thing we wished existed.
What MYOPL actually does
Find a court, club, or league near you and join the conversation that comes with it. Message the people you meet. See who is showing up before you drive over. Record every game, wins and losses alike, and watch a rating build itself from evidence instead of guesswork.
None of it requires turning every Thursday night session into a tournament. Competition is there when you want it, and invisible when you do not.
Built for the way people actually play
- The courts, clubs, and leagues you join stay yours — they do not disappear when you search for something new.
- Organizers get a real toolkit: a schedule, a headcount, and a way to record results, instead of five disconnected apps.
- Every court and club can host its own community, with real people responsible for keeping it accurate.
- Your rating is built from confirmed games only, and singles never gets mixed up with doubles.
- OPL Intelligence is there when you want a quick answer, and easy to turn off when you do not.
Where we are today
We started with pickleball, because that is where the open-play community is loudest right now. Tennis, platform tennis, badminton, racquetball, squash, and table tennis are next, and we are building each one the same careful way: for the sport it actually is, not a copy-paste of the last one.