Free Americano generator for padel
Set the number of players, courts and rounds, and get a full Americano schedule where nobody repeats a partner and nobody sits out twice in a row. Works in your browser — no account, no signup, nothing to install.
Use real names instead of Player 1, 2, 3…
How the draw works
Every round the generator looks at what has already happened that evening: who has partnered whom, who has faced whom, and who has already sat out. It then searches for the arrangement that repeats the least.
Full enumeration is not possible — 17 players on 4 courts allow roughly 3.6 billion arrangements of a single round — so it runs a local search with random restarts, the same code the live product uses.
One thing it will not do: put two players together twice while a fresh pairing is still available. With 8 players over 6 rounds you get 24 different pairs and no repeats at all.
Questions organisers ask
- How many players do I need for an Americano?
- Four is the minimum — one court. Eight on two courts is the most common social evening. Above sixteen the format still works, you just meet a smaller share of the group.
- Can I run an Americano with an odd number of players?
- Yes. With 9, 10 or 11 players on two courts, one to three people sit out each round. The generator spreads the rest evenly so nobody sits out twice in a row.
- How many rounds should we play?
- Divide the booking by the round length. Two hours at 15 minutes a round is 8 rounds; 90 minutes at 12 minutes is 7. Set that number here and the whole evening is drawn at once.
- Is the draw random?
- No, and that is the point. A random draw repeats partners constantly. This one scores every candidate arrangement against the evening so far and keeps the least repetitive one.