Tennis Khelo

A platform that connects players, courts and coaches in one place, slot booking, skill-matched opponents, competitive ladders and academy management, all running off a single scheduling core.

Court bookings ran through phone calls and a WhatsApp group. Double bookings were routine, coaches had no way to publish availability, and casual players had nobody at their level to play against.

• Remove double bookings entirely
• Let coaches and academies manage their own schedules
• Match players by skill so casual games are worth playing
• Take payments online instead of at the gate

One scheduling engine backs every booking type (court, coaching slot and ladder fixture), so availability is computed once and cannot disagree between surfaces. Slot reservations take a short-lived Redis lock while payment completes, then commit to MySQL. Razorpay handles payment, and a rating system seeds ladder matchmaking.

• Booking conflicts eliminated by moving reservations behind a single locked write path
• Coaches gained self-service scheduling instead of routing every request through the venue
• Court owners got utilisation visibility they previously had no way to measure

Scheduling looks like CRUD until two people want the same minute. Deciding early that availability has exactly one owner saved every feature that came after it.