PlanMyCircuit instantly calculates true travel costs, drive times, entry deadlines, and draw levels for every available junior tennis tournament. You get a fully customized season with a reason behind every entry.
Maximum court time. Minimum wasted weekends.
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"Tournament selection is the first place families make avoidable mistakes. The instinct is to enter as many events as possible, assuming more competition equals faster improvement. It doesn't."
Tennis Central
These are the choices that quietly decide what a junior tennis season costs you, and how much your player gets out of it.
An out-of-town event adds $300 to $500 on top of a $40 to $80 entry fee once you count hotel, gas, tolls, parking, and food.
PlanMyCircuit prices the whole weekend before you enter, so your season costs what you planned for.
Entering everything in reach burns money and confidence when the level is wrong, in both directions.
PlanMyCircuit ranks every event by fit to your player's level right now, so each entry has a reason behind it.
A 30-minute drive to a local event becomes a 3-hour road trip, then a flight, as your player moves up.
PlanMyCircuit shows drive time and full trip cost for every option, so the calendar stays livable as the level rises.
At some levels there are only around 1,000 spots nationwide on a given weekend, and the best ones close first.
PlanMyCircuit tracks entry windows and tells you what to enter, and when, before the deadline passes.
Resistance to practice, emotional swings around match results, and performance sliding despite steady training are the warning signs. Overscheduling causes them. One tournament every two to three weeks in peak season, with four to eight week blocks off, is the pace that prevents them.
PlanMyCircuit builds that pacing into the season and warns you when a stretch of the calendar asks too much of your player.
National events mean flights, extra hotel nights, and Fridays out of class that nobody budgets for.
PlanMyCircuit flags every school day a trip takes, before you commit to the entry.
Real tournaments, real costs, real drive times, ranked around your player's level so you always know what to enter next.
Level 5 regional circuit, 8 events
Ranked by fit to player level & goals
| Tournament | Dist. | Cost | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Regional Open · L5 | 45 mi | $310 | Strong |
| Fall Championship Invit. · L4 | 95 mi | $410 | Strong |
| Sectional Qualifier · L4 | 210 mi | $640 | Reach |
| Local Level 7 Series | 12 mi | $85 | Warm-up |
Tournament weekends vs. school days
Current level or UTR, ranking goals, home court, budget range, and blackout dates for school, other sports, and family travel.
A shortlist of tournaments ranked by fit, each with a real cost and travel estimate, so you're not scrolling through every event in the region.
Change the budget, swap a tournament, or shift a date, and the plan recalculates cost, travel time, and school-day tradeoffs instantly.
Try everything free for 14 days. If it doesn't change how you plan the season, cancel and pay nothing.
Billed once per season, after your 14-day free trial.
Cancel any time in the first 14 days and you are never charged.
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PlanMyCircuit is built around the USTA junior tournament structure, covering local Level 6 and 7 events through national Level 1 events, using real published tournament, travel, and cost data.
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$29 per season, billed once. Families who enroll now keep that rate for as long as they stay.
A competitive junior tennis season commonly runs a family between $5,000 and $25,000 a year once coaching, entry fees, travel and lodging are counted together. A single national-level trip can pass $1,300 before you pay a single entry fee. Most of that cost is travel rather than tennis, which is why planning the schedule is where families save the most.
A common guideline is one tournament every two to three weeks during peak season, with four to eight week blocks away from competition built into the year. Playing more than that tends to produce the warning signs of burnout: resistance to practice, emotional swings around match results, and performance sliding even though training has not changed.
Level fit is the decision that quietly shapes a season. Entering above your player's current level burns money and confidence, and entering below it wastes weekends that could have moved a ranking. PlanMyCircuit ranks every available event against your player's level right now, so each entry on the calendar has a reason behind it.