Americano padel for 9 players 2 courts, 9 rounds: the full schedule
Everyone partners everyone else exactly once, and everyone rests exactly 1 round. Print it, or let the app run it for you.
At a glance
- Players
- 9
- Courts
- 2
- Rounds
- 9
- Matches per player
- 8
- Rests per player
- 1 round each
- Points per match
- Your choice — 16, 21, 24 or 32 (24 is the usual)
- Time on court
- Roughly 1 h 48 min–2 h 15 min (12–15 minutes a round at 24 points)
The schedule
Numbers are players. “1 & 5 vs 3 & 8” means players 1 and 5 play against players 3 and 8. Court numbers are just labels — in Americano they carry no ranking.
| Round | Court 1 | Court 2 | Rests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 & 9 vs 2 & 5 | 3 & 8 vs 1 & 6 | 7 |
| 2 | 4 & 7 vs 1 & 8 | 5 & 6 vs 3 & 9 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 & 6 vs 5 & 7 | 3 & 4 vs 1 & 9 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 & 3 vs 2 & 7 | 6 & 8 vs 4 & 5 | 9 |
| 5 | 1 & 2 vs 6 & 9 | 3 & 7 vs 5 & 8 | 4 |
| 6 | 4 & 6 vs 7 & 9 | 3 & 5 vs 2 & 8 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 & 6 vs 1 & 4 | 2 & 9 vs 7 & 8 | 5 |
| 8 | 6 & 7 vs 2 & 4 | 1 & 5 vs 8 & 9 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 & 8 vs 2 & 3 | 1 & 7 vs 5 & 9 | 6 |
- Court 1
- 4 & 9 vs 2 & 5
- Court 2
- 3 & 8 vs 1 & 6
- Rests
- 7
- Court 1
- 4 & 7 vs 1 & 8
- Court 2
- 5 & 6 vs 3 & 9
- Rests
- 2
- Court 1
- 2 & 6 vs 5 & 7
- Court 2
- 3 & 4 vs 1 & 9
- Rests
- 8
- Court 1
- 1 & 3 vs 2 & 7
- Court 2
- 6 & 8 vs 4 & 5
- Rests
- 9
- Court 1
- 1 & 2 vs 6 & 9
- Court 2
- 3 & 7 vs 5 & 8
- Rests
- 4
- Court 1
- 4 & 6 vs 7 & 9
- Court 2
- 3 & 5 vs 2 & 8
- Rests
- 1
- Court 1
- 3 & 6 vs 1 & 4
- Court 2
- 2 & 9 vs 7 & 8
- Rests
- 5
- Court 1
- 6 & 7 vs 2 & 4
- Court 2
- 1 & 5 vs 8 & 9
- Rests
- 3
- Court 1
- 4 & 8 vs 2 & 3
- Court 2
- 1 & 7 vs 5 & 9
- Rests
- 6
Players
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
How to run it with this schedule
- Give everyone a number from 1 to 9. The printout has a line for each name.
- Each round, play the matches in that row, one per court, to a fixed number of points. 24 is a good default; the two pairs' points always add up to it.
- Anyone in the Rests column sits that round out. Everyone rests exactly 1 round.
- After each match, both players in a pair add their pair's points to their own total. Your partner changes every round, so your total is your own.
- After round 9, the highest total wins. Level on points? Whoever won more matches goes first.
Why this rotation is fair
This is not a hand-made table. It was generated by the engine that runs Americano in the Padel Rondas app, which builds each round from history and never from results: first, nobody partners the same person two rounds running; then, everyone partners people they have not played with yet; last, opponents are varied as much as possible.
Over the 9 rounds, every one of the 36 possible pairs partners exactly once — you play alongside each of the other 8 players one time. Opponents are spread too: any two players meet across the net between 1 and 3 times.
Rests are shared out evenly: everyone sits out exactly 1 round.
In the app the rotation is built live, round by round, so it will not match this printout exactly — but it follows the same rules, and it adds the points up for you.