For athletes
Find coaches and courts, book a date-first court slot, join open games, and track your Performance DNA.
Every MatchBase account is an athlete, so all of these features are available to you from the start.
Search
Find coaches and facilities near you. Search is filtered by sport and ranked by distance from your home location — adjust the radius to widen or narrow the results. Coach cards show a live rating so you can compare options.
Book a court (date-first)
Court booking is date-first: you start by picking a date, and MatchBase shows you every court's free slots in one grid — courts across the top, time slots down the side. Filters help you narrow by sport or time of day, and a booking link can be shared so others land on the same date and view.
Pick a date
Choose the day you want to play. The grid loads availability for all of the facility's courts at once.
Choose a court and slot
Tap a free slot in the courts-by-slots grid. Use the filters to focus on the courts and times that work for you.
Confirm and pay
Confirm your slot and complete a Stripe Checkout payment, which places an escrow hold. See Booking & payments for how holds work.
Book a coach session
From a coach's profile, pick an available slot and send a booking request. The request runs on an approval timer: the coach approves (or, if they can't, Smart Rebound suggests an alternative). Once booked, you pay through Stripe Checkout, which holds the funds in escrow until the session completes.
Video review
Want feedback without booking a court? Pay a coach to review a clip of your play — no live session or time slot needed. Pick a coach who offers it (look for the 🎬 Review chip), upload a short clip, and pay; the coach delivers feedback by a 7-day deadline, and it feeds your Performance DNA. See Video review.
Clubs & memberships
Join a club's training program — a season of weekly slots. Request to join, get a pro-rated quote for the remaining sessions, and once the club approves and you pay, your membership goes active. Club feedback also flows into your Performance DNA. See Clubs & memberships.
Open games
Join social games hosted by other players, or host your own — you must be signed in for both. Games can be at a sports venue (with a court) or meet anywhere (e.g. a group run in a park). Set a location, optional host message, and choose paid (Stripe on join) or free to join.
Open games are location-filtered and can have a rating band so you find games at your level. After joining, use group chat on the game page. Add your mobile number in Profile (optional) and choose whether to share it with fellow players — see Open games & social.
Profile & contact
In Profile set your sports, home location, photo, and optional phone number. When Share with fellow players is on, hosts and members in your open games can reach you by phone (and you can see theirs when they opted in).
Performance DNA & the consent gate
Feedback from coaches and clubs turns into your Performance DNA — an AI-built spider chart scoring axes like smash, net play, footwork, defense, serve, and stamina for badminton, with a weakest-areas breakdown and a feedback timeline.
You decide what counts. When a coach delivers feedback, you're notified and it shows under "New feedback to review" on your Performance page. You can read or watch it immediately, then choose Add to my Performance DNA (it joins the spider) or Dismiss (kept as readable feedback, never in the spider). The spider only reflects feedback you've approved. See Performance DNA.
Improvement plan
Alongside your Performance DNA, MatchBase surfaces an improvement plan — concrete suggestions on what to work on next, derived from your session feedback and how your axes are trending.
My sessions
Your sessions hub organizes coach sessions into tabs — today, upcoming, completed, and awaiting feedback. Open a session to see its dossier: the planned focus, what was executed, and the feedback uploaded for it.