What the Americano generator does
An Americano asks one thing of the organiser: give every player a new partner each round, and keep a running points total for each individual. Doing that by hand for twelve or sixteen players is where a good padel night falls apart. The generator does it for you, round by round.
- Auto-balanced pairings each round. The pairing engine holds off on repeat partners for as long as the maths allows. With a stable group of eight on two courts that means a full cycle of seven rounds before anyone plays with the same partner twice.
- Fair sit-out rotation. When your player count is not a multiple of four, the generator chooses who rests and spreads the rests evenly, so nobody sits out a second time before everyone has sat out once.
- A live leaderboard on one link. Lock a score and the standings update on every phone watching the share link. Your players need no account and no app.
- It works in the browser. Nothing to download, no spreadsheet, no bracket to redraw between rounds.
Mixed Americano is built in as well. Mark each player as male or female, choose the Mixed variant, and every team on court is one man and one woman.
How to use it in three steps
Add your players
Type the names, comma separated. Four players is the minimum and sixteen is comfortable across four courts.
Set courts and points
Choose how many courts you have, then whether each match runs to a fixed points total, commonly 21, 24, or 32, or on a timer.
Share the link and play
Round one appears instantly. Enter each score, lock the round, and the next pairings arrive. Send the share link to the group chat so everyone can follow the leaderboard.
Who it is for
Clubs running a weekly social night, coaches who want the courts busy and the standings honest, and anyone who has tried to redraw an Americano on the back of a scoresheet while eight people wait to play. The same generator fits a casual four-player evening and a sixteen-player club night; only the round count changes.
If you would rather have the whole draw on paper before anyone arrives, use the printable Americano schedule. If you want the current standings to decide the next round's courts, use the Mexicano generator instead.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Americano generator free?
Do I need to install anything?
How many players do I need?
Can it run a mixed-gender Americano?
Can players follow the scores without the app?
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It takes about a minute: add the names, pick the format, and send the link. Padelino handles every round after that.