The Moment It Clicked

I'm a competitive USTA league player. I've been playing competitively for years, and like most of us, I care about where I stand. Not in an obsessive way - but in the way that anyone who competes at anything wants to know: am I getting better?

If you play USTA leagues, you know the drill. You've got your NTRP rating on TennisLink. Maybe you've checked your UTR on the Universal Tennis app. Maybe you've heard about this new thing called WTN from the ITF. And if you're really deep in it, you've been on TennisRecord trying to figure out your estimated dynamic rating before bump season hits.

That's three different platforms, three different rating scales, three different update schedules, and three different ways of telling you how good you are at hitting a fuzzy yellow ball over a net.

"I'm a 3.5 in NTRP, a 3.55 in UTR singles, 4.86 in UTR doubles, and a 29.35 in WTN. What does that actually mean? Am I improving? Am I about to get bumped? Nobody could give me a straight answer."

That moment - staring at three different numbers on three different screens and having no idea how they related to each other - is when I decided to build something better.

Who I Am (and Who I'm Not)

By day, I'm a SAP consultant. I'm not a software engineer. I don't have a computer science degree. I'm not a venture-backed founder with a team of developers. I'm a guy with a full-time job, a competitive tennis habit, and a frustration that wouldn't go away.

What I do have is deep experience as a USTA league player. I know what it's like to check TennisLink constantly during bump season. I know the feeling of wondering whether that 6-4, 6-3 loss to a 4.0 is going to tank my rating or barely register. I know the conversations tennis players have after matches: "What's your UTR? Do you think you're getting bumped? Have you checked TennisRecord?"

I built MyTennisRatings because I'm the target user. The problems I'm solving are problems I live with every season.

What's Next

The Rating Translator is live. The guides for NTRP, UTR, and WTN are published. And I'm heads-down on the unified dashboard.

If you're a competitive tennis player who's ever been frustrated by how fragmented rating information is, this is being built for you. Not by a faceless tech company, but by a fellow league player who shares the same frustrations.

Thanks for reading. See you on the court.

- Ron