Yes, for now. We’d rather do padel really well in Mumbai than spread thin across sports. If that changes, you’ll hear about it first.
A community is a group for your club, venue or friends, with its own games and a leaderboard. There are three types. Public: it shows up in search and anyone can join straight away. Semi-private: it shows up in search, but you ask to join and an admin approves you. Private: hidden from search, you need the invite link and an admin still approves you. Owners and admins manage members and requests, and the owner can hand over ownership.
Community rankings only include players whose rating has settled, which means at least 5 reliability points. Keep logging competitive matches and you’ll show up.
Post a game with a date, time and venue, and choose whether players join instantly (open) or ask first (request, you approve). You can set a rating range and a gender preference. A rating outside your range doesn’t block anyone: they get a warning and their join turns into a request for you to decide. Gender and community membership are firm rules. Community games close to new players when they start. Private link games stay open until the end time. You can edit a game before it starts, and players are notified if the date, time or venue changes.
In public and semi-private communities and on Find a game, hosts add proof that they actually have the court, either a booking link or a screenshot. Players see a “Court booked” tag and can join with confidence. It’s not needed for private communities, which are trusted members only.
Cancelling a game, leaving one or removing a player less than 6 hours before the start earns a warning. Three warnings pause your access to creating and joining games. A host cancelling a game nobody has joined or requested doesn’t count. If the host changes the date, time or venue after you joined, you can leave for free.
It’s an open board of games from players who have booked a court and need others. Browse by date, level and area, then join or request a spot. The host accepts requests, shares the booking proof, and once the game is played anyone in it can add the score to count toward ratings. Games from public communities appear here too, and joining one also adds you to that community. Semi-private communities can list games as well: you send one request to join the community and the game, and an admin approves you. Report a game or player from the game page if something isn’t right.
A few things: whether you won or lost, how strong the opponent was, and how many times you’ve already played them — fresh matchups tell us more about where you stand than a rematch does, so they count for more. Your starting level (1–7) is just where the math begins, not where it stays. After every match, you’ll see a short note on your dashboard explaining why your rating moved, or didn’t.
From your player dashboard, log any padel match you play against other players, set by set. Add your partner and opponents by phone number, and it counts toward everyone’s rating.
The match still gets saved to your log, but the rating only moves when everyone involved has a Directo account — otherwise there’s no real rating on the other side to measure against.
When you log a match, you choose one of the two. Competitive games count towards your rating, like normal. Friendly games are still saved to your match log, but never move anyone’s rating — useful for a casual or uneven game you don’t want affecting where you stand. You choose this once when logging the match, and it can’t be changed afterward.