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TENNIS PROGRAMS
MENS & WOMENS SINGLES TENNIS LADDER
Randomized starting positions on TBA Updates weekly.
The Tennis Challenge Ladder has started and runs until October 1 .
The winner is whoever is in the top spot on October 1. There is no “prize” other than bragging rights and getting mentioned as the winner at the AGM.
Login to the online booking website and click on Tennis Challenge Ladder to sign up.
In participating you agree to share this information with all participants.
Communications:
Rules:
You issue challenges weekly, you play weekly, and the challenger moves up the ladder if they win the set.
The ladder is intended to be a fun way to make the acquaintance of other club members. It is not all about winning. Be civil to your fellow competitors.
The winner is whoever is in the top spot on October 1. There is no “prize” other than bragging rights and getting mentioned as the winner at the AGM.
Login to the online booking website and click on Tennis Challenge Ladder to sign up.
In participating you agree to share this information with all participants.
Communications:
- Challenges are issued by email, copying [email protected].
- The winner sends the date of play and the results (the score in the set would be nice, but it can just be “I defeated xxx”) to [email protected] copying the opponent. I will accept those results. (Disputed results: I need this to be low administration, so please make sure there is no dispute. This is supposed to be fun. Read rule 1. Then read The Final Rule.)
- Once per week – sometime Sunday – updates will be posted weekly
Rules:
You issue challenges weekly, you play weekly, and the challenger moves up the ladder if they win the set.
The ladder is intended to be a fun way to make the acquaintance of other club members. It is not all about winning. Be civil to your fellow competitors.
- You are allowed to challenge a player up to 3 spots up the ladder from you to a set of tennis (E.g.: You are in position 11. You can challenge positions 10, 9, and 8).
- There is no requirement that you ever issue a challenge (but one wonders exactly what you are doing on the ladder if you are not doing so).
- Challenger and challenged need to agree to a date and time of play within 1 week of the challenge being issued.
- The challenger must provide a good set of tennis balls for use in the match. If there is a concern about the quality, the challenger must open a new set of tennis balls for the match. (Everyone please be reasonable – if the balls are dead when you warm up and you don’t like that, open that new can and play, but I am not insisting on a new can every match. Read rule 1 again!).
- The challenger and challenged play one set of tennis. The winner is whoever wins the set (first to 6 games winning by at least 2), or whoever is ahead on games at the end of the hour. Incomplete games do not count. At 6-games all, players should play a tie-breaker (first to 7 points, winning by 2 points). A tie-breaker is like a game in that it must be complete to count. Players can choose to play longer than one-hour to decide the match, but both most agree to do so.
- If the challenger wins, the winner and loser switch positions in the ladder. If the challenger loses, there is no change in the ladder. If there is a tie, (E.g.: 5 games each at the end of an hour) no change in positions occurs.
- Participants need not play more than once a week, though participants can decide to issue or accept more frequent challenges if they so desire.
- For purposes of deciding if you have played this week (and hence can decline a challenge), each week runs from 7am Sunday to the following Saturday at 11pm.
- For purposes of challenges, a week is 7 days from the issue of the challenge. (E.g.: For a challenge issued Thursday, the set must be played no later than the following Wednesday at 11pm).
- A player can decline only one challenge for their own reasons (one free decline) during the period of the ladder. This is to allow for vacations, illness, etc...
- If a player is unable to accept a challenge (except for already playing that week or using their one free decline) or is unable to meet the challenger within a week of the challenge, then the match is awarded the challenger.
- A player not showing up for an agreed-to match loses that match. (Everyone be reasonable and flexible. Stuff happens to all of us and if might be necessary to reschedule, so try to do so. If you can’t reschedule, you can’t. Someone loses, and life goes on. See rule 1.)
- Anyone joining after the ladder has started (when the first ladder listing is posted) starts at the bottom of the ladder.
- The Final Rule. In joining the ladder, you are agreeing to the above rules, which may be amended at any time and for any reason by the ladder administrator. Your behaviour is governed by our Code of Conduct as posted at the Sheridan website. Any disagreements regarding the ladder that you cannot resolve on your own come to the ladder administrator via email, who will be cross with both of you for wasting his time and may use any means at his disposal, including flipping a coin, to make a decision. That decision is final. No appeals. Please don’t have any disagreements. See rule 1 again.