Tournament Directors & TDM

WHAT IS TDM?  

Tournament Data Manager is the USTA’s newest software application designed to be the courtside companion for tournament directors.  TDM will replace the TMS program that USTA has leased and provided to tournament administrators over the past several years.

TDM is windows based, enhanced technology with features tournament directors are used to using plus many new enhancements to facilitate setting up an event, creating draws and scheduling matches.  The software program is free for member organizations of the USTA.

Some of the most talked about enhancements include:

  • Multiple copies of TDM are available to tournament directors which allows them to use the program court side or from their home office.
  • TDM also allows multiple users to work on a tournament.
  • TDM links to endorsement and seeding lists and automatically seeds from a selected list.
  • More advanced printing capabilities such as to Excel, Word and Adobe Acrobat formats
  • The ability to have multiple messages (more then 5) appear on the tournament home page.
  • The ability to schedule matches in a given round at different sites versus having to play all the matches for that round at one site.
  • The ability to schedule the entire tournament yet only show specific rounds scheduled on the web.
  • The ability to check a Schedule Conflict report to see if players have been over-scheduled.

When you interface TDM with the other available suite of products for TennisLink tournaments, the results is a powerful took for players, tournament directors and ranking administrators.

  • TDM is the only program that interfaces with the USTA membership database and validates tournament entries for accuracy of age, gender, membership and NTPR level.
  • An On-Line Sanction form allows tournament directors to define their tournament events once and then upon approval by the sanctioning body, download this information into TDM.
  • The On-Line Registration interface with TDM tracks entrants and entry fees saving hours of manual pre-preparation work for a tournament.  Tournament Directors simply download the entrants into their TDM application.
  • TDM match results become part of a centralized database used for ranking players at the district, section or national level.

HOW CAN I BE TRAINED ON TDM?  

  • It’s easy.  Go to   http://www.usta.com/feedback/tennislink.sps and sign up for one of the scheduled sessions.  Sessions are limited to 20 participants and are taken on a first come, first serve basis.  You will receive instructions to participate in an on-line hour-long training session after which you can download the program, a test plan and test away.
  • You can also access a TDM training manual be going to  http://198.49.241.183/tournaments/download/tdmdownload.aspx
  • Or an on-line video is available at http://www.usta.com/tdmdemo

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT linkteam@usta.com