Searching for tournaments (https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament-calendar/world-tennis-masters-tour-calendar/)
- When searching, you can filter/sort by date or country….. but not by Category, or Surface
- The Name of the Tournament is always a concatenation of the City and the Category, so in effect is superfluous
- Some of the Cities are in CAPS, some not.
- The Country filter doesn't work terribly well. Specifically, if I am searching for "Cyprus" yet have selected a month where there are no tournaments in Cyprus, then the search fails to recognize Cyprus. In addition your search function can be configured to capture structured to look for other a couple of ways of spelling a country. For example, I looked for “England”, and found nothing. It should suggest Great Britain. Similarly United States doesn't trigger, the code is USA. However you can easily configure where your country database has 2 or 3 alternative search names (hidden) that will then show “Great Britain” if I were to type any of the following "UK, GB, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland etc)
Registering/Applying for a tournament
Checking out the draw for tournament (this page→https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/mt400-limassol/cyp/2024/s-mt400-cyp-2024-004/draws-and-results/)
- Each tournament has a single URL for all the draws (Mens, Womens, Mixed…. All age groups), and they control the display with Javascript
- Example: https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/mt400-limassol/cyp/2024/s-mt400-cyp-2024-004/draws-and-results/
- That means you can't share the URL to direct family/friends/partners for specific draw. You have to tell them to navigate to say "Mens / Singles, Over 45)
- Moreover, the site doesn't remember anything about the user, so refreshing the Age category resets the gender of the user.
- I would recommend tracking the default with a cookie or alternatively providing a unique URL (trade-off is that it is slightly to flick between tournaments, but most users are not doing that)
- The order of play page doesn't optimally use the screen width. On high resolution screens you could see 12 courts simultaneously, rather than clicking across screens
- Similarly the court numbering at the top is confusing.
- Granted on a phone it needs to be swipe right for