{"slug": "show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp", "title": "Show HN: CourtlyGo – open database of tennis, pickleball, padel courts and MCP", "summary": "CourtlyGo launched a free, open directory of tennis, pickleball and padel courts that AI assistants can query through an MCP server at https://courtlygo.com/mcp, with no key or sign-in required. The database covers 10,712 venues and 38,049 courts across 115 cities and metro areas in 27 countries, sourced from OpenStreetMap data dated between 2026-10-08 (US) and 2026-10-25 (Ireland). The MCP server lets ChatGPT and Claude search real courts by city, sport, lights, indoor or outdoor status, public access and court count, with every answer carrying its source and data date instead of guessing.", "body_md": "### Chatsworth Park South Pickleball Courts\n\n- Courts\n- 2+\n- Setting\n- not mapped\n- Lights\n- Some courts\n- Surface\n- Paved\n- Access\n- Public\n- Fee\n- not mapped\n\n**Tennis, pickleball and padel courts, open to AI assistants, apps and players.**\n\nSearch courts below — free. Or just ask ChatGPT or Claude: they can look it up in CourtlyGo.\n\nLive now across 115 cities and metro areas in 27 countries — more cities are being added.\n\nCourtlyGo is built to be used by AI assistants: through an MCP server they search real courts instead of guessing.\n\nAsk by city, sport, lights, indoor or outdoor, open to the public, number of courts. Every answer carries the source and the date of the data.\n\nSo you don't switch apps when you switch games.\n\nHard, clay and grass courts, lit and unlit.\n\nDedicated courts and tennis courts with pickleball lines.\n\nGlass-walled courts. One of the fastest-growing racquet sports.\n\nA real court from the directory, as a player sees it.\n\nTennis, pickleball and padel — one place instead of three maps.\n\nSurface, lights, indoor or outdoor, open to the public, number of courts.\n\nNo account needed to search.\n\nLive now: 10,712 venues · 38,049 courts across 115 cities and metro areas in 27 countries\n\nComing to cities all over the world. Data from OpenStreetMap of 2026-10-15 (Argentina), 2026-10-16 (Australia), 2026-10-16 (Brazil), 2026-10-15 (Canada), 2026-10-24 (Croatia), 2026-10-24 (Cyprus), 2026-10-16 (Denmark), 2026-10-24 (Finland), 2026-10-15 (France), 2026-10-12 (Georgia), 2026-10-15 (Germany), 2026-10-15 (Greece), 2026-10-25 (Ireland), 2026-10-12 (Italy), 2026-10-16 (Japan), 2026-10-24 (Malta), 2026-10-15 (Mexico), 2026-10-15 (Netherlands), 2026-10-16 (New Zealand), 2026-10-09 (Norway), 2026-10-16 (Poland), 2026-10-12 (Portugal), 2026-10-16 (South Africa), 2026-10-12 (Spain), 2026-10-09 (Sweden), 2026-10-13 (United Kingdom), 2026-10-08 (US); many courts have no name or address there — [see how complete the data is](https://courtlygo.com/data#quality).\n\nEmail [hello@courtlygo.com](mailto:hello@courtlygo.com) and we'll let you know when new cities go live.\n\nA free directory of tennis, pickleball and padel courts, and an open database for AI assistants and apps. We start with Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the US and are expanding across the world.\n\nYes, searching for courts is free for players and doesn't need an account.\n\nGoogle Maps is great for finding a place, but it's not built for courts. CourtlyGo shows the details players ask about (surface, lights, indoor or outdoor, open to the public, number of courts), covers all three sports in one search, and is built so AI assistants and developers can use the data too.\n\nOpenStreetMap. It can be incomplete or out of date, so check with the venue before you travel, and tell us about mistakes at hello@courtlygo.com.\n\nYes. Our MCP server is open at https://courtlygo.com/mcp — no key or sign-in.\n\nEmail hello@courtlygo.com with the court's name, address and what to change. Courts also come from OpenStreetMap, where anyone can add or fix them.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp", "canonical_source": "https://courtlygo.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-30 18:18:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 18:47:04.219330+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["agent-protocols", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "structured-data"], "entities": ["CourtlyGo", "OpenStreetMap", "ChatGPT", "Claude"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-courtlygo-open-database-of-tennis-pickleball-padel-courts-and-mcp.jsonld"}}