The first message you see
When the team confirms your pair, the app tells you at once, and the session's page shows your partner's name with a button to open the chat. This is the first moment you learn who your partner is, because Match Me by THE SET. reveals no name while a request is still with the team.
From here there is nothing to confirm again and no acceptance to tap. The place in that session now belongs to both of you, and the rule shown before you asked applies from this moment. Once matched, the pairing is final. No rematch. No partner change. Non-refundable after matching.
A private chat for two
The chat that opens is private, between you and your partner only. It is not the session's group, and nobody from the team is in it. It works like every other chat in the app: type a message, send a photo.
There are only a few things worth settling, and every one of them shows on court. Who prefers to receive on the left and who on the right. Who wants to serve first. Who likes to come to the net and who is happier at the back. And a simple call for the ball down the middle, so you both know who takes it. Five minutes now saves several free points in the first game.
The other thing to agree is when to arrive. Meet half an hour before the match, warm up together, and you will have seen each other's rhythm before the first point that counts.
Call without giving a number
If typing is too slow, there is a call button in the chat. The call runs entirely inside the app: the audio goes through the app, not the phone network, and neither of you sees the other's number. It suits the plans that need a few rounds of back and forth, or a game plan that runs long in text.
You can call while the app is open and while the screen is locked. An incoming call rings like an ordinary one, and you can answer or decline from the lock screen. If it is not a good moment, a missed call shows in the chat with a button to call back.
Before match day
The pairs that do best on the day are usually the ones who have met once before. Nothing serious: half an hour of light hitting is enough to learn whether your partner's ball is heavy or light, slow or fast, and what they say when a point is lost, which matters more than you would think.
If you cannot meet beforehand, use the chat to settle three things: which side you each receive on, the order of serve, and who takes the ball down the middle. Those three cover most of the decisions in the first game.
If something does not feel right
The chat and the calls carry the same tools as every other chat in the app: block and report. If a partner makes you uncomfortable, you can block them at once and the team sees the report. The place in the session and the pairing stay as the rule says; where something genuinely has to change, the team decides, never the system.
Match day
At the venue you each check in with your own code in the app; a member of staff scans you one at a time, and you go to the court named on the session's page. When the session ends, the organiser records the match result, and it sits in both your records. The private chat stays after the event, so arranging the next session together can start right there.
It starts with one request
All of it begins with pressing Match Me on a doubles or mixed doubles session that offers it. The steps before that, your level, how you want to play and the team's confirmation, are in the article No partner, but you want to play doubles. Sign up and look at the sessions that are open.
General guidance, not a research finding.