Finding a tennis hitting partner at your exact skill level in your neighborhood is impossible without joining a $300/month club

You are a USTA 3.5-level player. You moved to a new neighborhood. You want a hitting partner who is also 3.5 — good enough to rally consistently but not so good they crush you. Your options: (a) post on Craigslist 'looking for tennis partner' — you get 2 responses, both are 2.5-level beginners, (b) join a USTA league — but seasons are 8 weeks and teams are assigned by the league, not by location, (c) join a private club ($200-500/month) that has a member directory and socials, (d) ask random people at the public court if they want to hit — most are already paired up. After 6 weeks of trying, you still have no regular hitting partner. So what? Tennis is uniquely dependent on having a partner at your exact skill level. Unlike running (solo), gym (solo), basketball (pickup games accommodate mixed skill), or cycling (group rides work at any level), tennis requires exactly 1 other person of approximately equal ability. A 4.0 player hitting with a 3.0 player is boring for both. This means a 3.5 player in a new city needs to find another 3.5 player within 15 minutes of their home who is available at the same times. The matching problem is extremely specific and there is no platform that solves it. Why does this persist? Tennis participation is distributed and fragmented — no single platform knows who plays tennis, at what level, and where. USTA has 700K+ members but no partner-matching feature. PlayYourCourt and TennisRound exist but have minimal user bases outside major metros. Facebook groups ('SF Tennis Players') have posts but no structured matching. The market is too small for a venture-backed startup but too painful for the people affected to ignore.