How many times does the desire to play sports not coincide with the availability of teammates? Many matches come to nothing because there are no players, it is difficult to find a court or agendas clash. All these problems were the basis for the creation of Jugá Tennis, An application for amateur athletes looking for a partner or opponent and shows the availability of courts in Rosario and surrounding areas.
Con more than 100 athletes in RosarioJugá Tenis was projected as a new way of organizing sports, a kind of Tinder for athletes linked to brick dust or grass, the racket and the sets. Players create a free account, mark details of their level along with the objective they have in the discipline and the process begins to unite them with other users. In the city alone there are more than 10 clubs within the platform that make their courts availablebut “we are working to continue adding,” said Sergio Gregorutti, self-taught web developer and creator of the application, to The Capital.
The platform is supported by the number of players it has added since its launch, just over six months ago. Once tennis players register, they can view the players near their area, tennis level, gender, age or game availability, among other filters. When a match is made, a friend request can be sentwhich by accepting it allows see your contact details (WhatsApp and Instagram) and start the procedures to play.
Jugá Tenis has more than 1,400 tennis players in 15 provincesthe majority of players are concentrated in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Amba), Rosario and Córdoba Capital. “Once users are friends, they have their contact information to arrange matches on their own. We do not interfere in that,” said Gregorutti, who played four matches in 30 days through the app.
Type of tennis player
When creating the profile, the user must indicate name, gender, height, weight, contact details and location. After this step, it is time to describe the “tennis profile”.
The first thing to mark is the level: beginner, intermediate, advanced and competitive. Also what type of matches the tennis player is looking for, whether singles, doubles or open to both possibilities. You can describe the type of tennis players, detail qualities or express the objective of the matches to be played.
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Another box to complete is time availability for the games (morning, afternoon or night) and the availability to do so on weekends. In addition, there is a section to make clarifications regarding the agenda.
How the application came about
Gregorutti has been a tennis player for more than 15 years and found in the difficulty of putting together tennis matches an opportunity to create the Jugá Tenis community. Having the ability to create applications, the idea was around for a long time, but only in mid-2025 did it decide to launch it. “Once I had the idea, I started researching the market, the options there were, I started talking to other amateur tennis players and I quickly knew that I had the opportunity to create something new, that stands out and makes a difference,” said the developer.
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To develop this initiative The developer invested close to 500 thousand pesos and most of that amount was allocated to advertising. For the application itself, about 200 thousand pesos were needed, between the domain registration and various online services necessary to keep the site up and running. “After two months of having the application active and verifying that there was real interest from users, I decided to invest in design and a community manager,” he added. From there, He predicted spending a million pesos, but in total it was 1.5 million. All the financing, the entrepreneur acknowledged, was done with personal savings.
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Despite being a new project, Gregorutti highlighted: “The results were very good, and I am already working on monetization options. Mainly with advertising and paid premium options for users.”
Among the latest news, Jugá Tenis added a tool so that players can record their matches in the application, with photos and history of results. This way each player will be able to measure their evolution and characteristics of the organized clashes.
