Creating a LTA Team Challenge

LTA Youth Team Challenge is a fun competition designed for junior tennis players. Kids compete in small teams for points over a short series of matches. Win, lose or draw, all players receive a sticker and certificate from us!

There are 2 Team Challenge formats, of which you can run one or both all-year-round, across all your age groups. These two formats are:

• LTA Youth Team Challenge: Match Week
• LTA Youth Team Challenge: Festivals

You can read more here:  LTA Youth Team Challenge

You can apply/download resource packs and enter in your participant numbers through the above link. 

We have split this article into 2 sections to help you easily find the relevant section:

• Creating a LTA Team Challenge Event
• Adding a Session to a LTA  Team Challenge Event

Creating a LTA Team Challenge Event 

Step 1:  In the Events module select the LTA Team Challenge category

Step 2:  Click on 'Create a new event'

Step 3:  Add the details of the event 

Status:  Here you have a choice of the below in the drop down. You can change the status at any time. 

• Hidden: The Event is not available to anyone. Use this setting while you are making changes to avoid confusion
• Public: The Event will be available to all and will appear in search results 
• Direct link only: The Event will not appear in search results, but will be available via direct links 
• Archived: The Event is no longer available at your venue and will be moved into the archived section 

Your Reference:  This is the code for admin only use-  most put the Date - i.e. TCJune24

Event Name:  You can rename this to whatever you choose. It is useful to have a date or distinguishing factor - i.e. Autumn Team Challenge. 

Age Level - this is not mandated but more for reference to the people signing up. 

Description : This is to provide details of the event

Confirmation:  This is what is shown when the person signs up for the event. 

Reminder Emails:  If you set this, the reminder email will be sent in the early hours of the morning, it is useful to provide information on the day, what to bring etc. 

Dates and Times: This is the date and time for the entire day. You can have different session times which you set once creating the sessions. 
If your event is run over more than one date. You can add one additional date by clicking 'Add date'

Contact Name and Details:  The information here will be included on the confirmation email and website in the Need more information.. so if you don't want to add a phone number, you can leave this blank. 



Venue:  This should auto-populate to your venue, but you can add a different venue if needed. 

Policies:  This is where you can add the event waiver/terms and conditions. If added, it will be mandatory to agree to at sign up. 

Cover Photo: You can add your own cover photo - it will be a banner image. Recommended dimensions 1800px x 440px. If you leave this blank the default image will show. 

Costs- here you add how you wish to collect the money. You will set the prices when creating the sessions. 

Participant Cancelations and Auto Refund - If enabled, participants can self cancel through their profile before the start date of the event. If you enable auto-refund, you can set how close to the event you wish to provide auto-refund. 


Step 4:  Save event

Adding a Session to a LTA Team Challenge Event

After saving the event, this will take you to add new session page. Here is where you add details of the sessions.

Step 1: Click '+ Add new session'

Step 2: Add the session details: 

Status:  This will pull from you event, but you can edit each session individually if you have more then one. 

Activity: Choose an option from the drop down. 

You can add the date, time, duration of the session, gender, ball type, age groups, capacity and costs.

Please note: adding the ages - this will check the age of the players and prevent players not in this age group from registering.  Select None - if you don't need validation. 

If you create the Additional Activity - it will appear as below on the page to book. You can add as many as you wish. 




Once you have created your event - you can go back and add more events, or delete events as needed.

At present you are unable to re-order how the events show on the public page, but this is a feature coming in the near future.