MATCHi is the world’s fastest-growing reserving system for racquet sports activities together with Padel.
Melbourne, 24 January 2023 | tennis.com.au
World racquet sports activities tech firm, MATCHi has been chosen to participate within the AO StartUps program. The platform permits gamers to simply ebook courts, actions and maintain observe of their leagues on the go.
AO StartUps is the newest step in Tennis Australia’s innovation program which helps early-stage firms pilot their cutting-edge expertise on the Australian Open and different areas of Australian tennis.
“We see large potential within the platform that MATCHi has constructed over the previous 10 years and wish to captalise on its user-friendly performance to assist drive participation throughout Australia,” Tennis Australia Head of Innovation Dr Machar Reid stated.
The MATCHi utility might be piloted by gamers and venues throughout Australia all through 2023 and play a essential position in serving to help the expansion of complementary codecs and racquet sports activities similar to Padel Tennis.
“This pilot is an thrilling alternative to proceed to develop our robust participation numbers as we ship extra methods for folks to play extra typically,” Tennis Australia Chief Tennis Officer Tom Larner stated.
“Padel is loved throughout greater than 90 nations and by greater than 20 million gamers* and whereas the game’s introduction to Australia is simply comparatively new, there’s already important uptake in its reputation.”
MATCHi CEO Daniel Ekman kicked off the corporate’s journey in 2012 and has overseen its progress from early beginnings in Sweden to changing into a worldwide platform.
“Becoming a member of forces with Tennis and Padel Australia is a vital milestone on our path in the direction of being the apparent platform for the worldwide racquet sports activities group,” Ekman stated.
“We’re stoked to have this chance to assist drive racquet sports activities engagement in one of many prime markets on the planet.”
The complete cohort of AO StartUps might be introduced throughout AO 2023.
Go to aostartups.ausopen.com to be taught extra.
About MATCHiMATCHi is an entire reserving system for racket sports activities venues worldwide. With over 10 years of expertise, the enterprise has constructed an ideal mix between user-friendly expertise and highly effective performance. Its origins started in Sweden and now operates in 30 nations with over 2600 energetic venues.
About AO Startups
AO StartUps is the newest step in Tennis Australia’s innovation program which helps startup firms pilot their cutting-edge expertise on the AO and different areas of Tennis Australia’s enterprise. Corporations taking part in AO StartUps might be supplied the chance to show their enterprise fashions in actual time and immediately entry proprietary intel and publicity at one of many world’s largest sports activities and leisure occasions. It’s been designed to extract most worth for the startup, streamline company processes that may typically stifle innovating at velocity, and supply a possibility for future funding by way of Tennis Australia’s enterprise capital fund, Wildcard Ventures.
The creation of AO StartUps follows the launch of Tennis Australia’s Enterprise Capital fund (Wildcard Ventures) and its multi-year partnership with world accelerator powerhouse, Techstars.
*Worldwide Padel Federation