Create A Player

Overview

3rd party partners have the ability to create unique USTA player accounts. Each USTA player account is identified by a uaid, which represents the unique identifer for a player. Players should be created before contributing play activity so that the uaid can be used to identify the player in the contribution.

In order to create a player account, the player must accept USTA terms and conditions and indicate acceptance in the contribution body. It is the responsibility of the caller to present the terms and conditions and collect the response before submitting the player account for creation.

In the event that an account matching the player identity already exists at USTA, the existing UAID for that account will be returned. Otherwise, the newly created UAID will be returned.

New accounts created by partners are not visible in usta.com until the player goes in anc claims their account.

Player Account Vs Customer Account

A Player Account differs from a Customer account created on usta.com`. A player account can be used for play activity contribution and profile search but cannot be used for logging into usta.com` without first claiming the account.


Customer Account	Created on usta.com`	Can be used for logging into usta.com`
Player Account	Created using the Player API	Cannot log into usta.com` until the user claims their account using ‘Find Your Account’ function on usta.com`

API

This endpoint is designed to only create unique players. In the event that a match to the player exists as a USTA player already, the existing account will be returned. Otherwise, the newly created account will be returned.

URI

Production:
  POST https://api-ustaconnect.usta.com/v1/usta-service/customers/players/player

Stage:
  POST https://stage-api-ustaconnect.usta.com/v1/usta-service/customers/players/player

Body

The following are the fields that define a unique customer at USTA.

{
  "firstName": "Kaiser",
  "lastName": "Sose",
  "externalId": "123233123213",
  "dateOfBirth": "1960-01-01",
  "gender": "M",
  "email": "kaiser@gmailg.com",
  "isAcceptedUSTATerms": true,
  "termsAcceptedDate": "2024-04-13T10:55:01",
  "sourceName": "<SOURCE_SYSTEM>",
  "nationality": "USA",
  "accessLevel":0,
  "address": {
    "address1": "12 Oak Way",
    "address2": "Apt 1A",
    "city": "Mt Kisco",
    "state": "NY",
    "zipcode": "10536",
    "countryIso": "USA"
  }
}

Where

Field	Required/Optional	Identifying	Format

Field	Required/Optional	Identifying	Format
firstName	Required	Yes	Must be 2 or more characters
lastName	Required	Yes	Must be 2 or more characters
dateOfBirth	Required	Yes	YYYY-MM-DD
gender	Required	Yes	M F
email	Required	No	xxx@yyy.com
`externalId`	Optional	No	Player Id in source system
address	Optional	No	object defined below
address.address1	Optional	No	Must be 2 or more characters
address.address2	Optional	No	Must be 2 or more characters
address.city	Optional	No	Must be 2 or more characters
address.state	Optional	No	Must be 2 characters
address.zipcode	Required	No	Must be 2 or more characters
address.countryIso	Required	No	3 digit country code for country of residence
`nationality`	Required	No	3 digit country code for country under whose flag the player competes
`isAcceptedUSTATerms`	Required	No	True/False
termsAcceptedDate	Required	No	YYYY-DD-MMThh:mm:ss
`sourceName`	Required	No	Source system name
`accessLevel`	Required	No	This should be 0

Return Value

When a customer is contributed, the identifying fields will be compared to all existing USTA customers.

In the event that a match is found to an existing customer, the existing UAID will be returned.
In the event that no match is found and all required fields are present in the contribution, a new USTA customer will be created and the new UAID will be returned.

Standard Response (No merge, new or existing)

{
  "uaid": "2018123458",
  "merged": "False"
}

Merged Response (existing)

Error Codes

The following are a list of error codes and descriptions that are returned to the Contributor:

HTTP Error Code	Application Error Code	Description

HTTP Error Code	Application Error Code	Description
400		The request could not be understood by the server due to incorrect syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications.
401		Indicates that the request requires user authentication information. The client MAY repeat the request with a suitable Authorization header field.
403		Unauthorized request. The client does not have access rights to the content. Unlike 401, the client’s identity is known to the server.
404		The server can not find the requested resource.
429		Rate limiting. The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

Sample Curl

You must first retrieve an access token using Bound or Unbound method. See Cognito Client Integration Guide for more on how to request a token.

The following is a sample curl illustrating the contribution of a doubles matchup.

Where:

--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJraW...

specifies the token that you retrieved using the https://stage-account.usta.com/oauth2/token endpoint.

1 Overview
2 Player Account Vs Customer Account
3 API
- 3.1 URI
- 3.2 Body
  - 3.2.1 Where
- 3.3 Return Value
  - 3.3.1 Standard Response (No merge, new or existing)
  - 3.3.2 Merged Response (existing)
- 3.4 Error Codes
4 Sample Curl