polymarket-tennis

About polymarket-tennis

Open-source Python toolkit that lines up Polymarket's tennis markets with the matches they are about. It lists open tennis markets from Polymarket's public Gamma API, pairs each one with a live match or fixture and refuses to guess when the pairing is ambiguous, then prints the market price next to the score, the server and a break-point flag, with the age of each feed. It never places orders and holds no wallet or key; it is a data layer for a bot you write yourself. The scores come from Live Tennis API, the paid service of the same team, whose free key allows 100 requests a day. MIT-licensed at github.com/livetennisapi/polymarket-tennis.

polymarket-tennis at a glance

How polymarket-tennis works

• The code does what it says, and it says honestly what it is not. The README discloses that the toolkit is written by the team selling the score feed and calls it “vendor-authored tooling”, and the boundary is plain: no order code, no wallet, no keys, and an arena whose rules state that a paper rank says nothing about real trading, where fees, fills and latency exist. The hard part it solves is the identity problem, deciding which live match a market is about, and the matching rules are written out and covered by tests. Its own budget table is candid too: watching once a minute spends one request a poll, so the free key lasts about 100 minutes a day.
• The popularity is not what it looks like. On Nov 9, 2026 the repo showed 256 stars and 217 forks, while the organisation's 29 other repositories had between none and two stars each. Of the 294 forks GitHub listed, all but two were made between Aug 18 and Aug 31, 2026, in daily bursts of up to 72, and 77 of their owners' accounts no longer exist; those still up mostly carry generated names such as a person's name with a number and a suffix. The two issues that prompted a code change came from accounts of the same kind. The package had 40 downloads from PyPI in the month to Nov 9. We read this as a paid boost, not a user base, and the star count should be ignored.
• Read it as a well-made sample for a data product. Everything past the snapshot, deciding when to trade and placing the order, is left to you, and a live strategy would need a faster score feed than the free tier, which is where the paid plans come in. The arena's first season was the 2026 US Open; the repo and its site publish no results as of Nov 9, 2026.
• The project was created on Aug 18, 2026 and has one release, 0.1.0, and 21 commits; its maintainer is Ben Abulafia, and Claude appears among the contributors. The package credits Synapse Research Ltd, while Live Tennis API's terms name JSB Holdings LLC, a Delaware company, as the operator. We read the README, the arena rules, the matching code and the vendor's pricing, about and terms pages; we did not install or run the toolkit.

Markets polymarket-tennis covers

• Polymarket tennis markets: ATP, WTA, Challenger and ITF match winners, set winners, game totals and futures