Overview
You experience playing lots of different people in an individual competition.
Benefits
o Players compete in their own time and arrange their own matches.
o Creates activity at your venue during quieter periods.
o Suitable for players of all standards as you can have different boxes.
o Provides competitive opportunities for people that may not have regular people to play against.
Organisation
o Get players to sign up.
o Copy an appropriate scorecard and insert player names.
o Set a deadline for when matches need to be completed by and chase players who don’t play.
Activity
o Explain to the players how the group will work, the scoring, and how the winner is calculated.
o The usual format is to play the best of two short sets with a match tie-break, but you can decide what format and scoring you want to go with.
Completing the scores:
o Put a player’s score in the horizontal box in the opponent’s column, ensure scores are filled in for both players.
o The winner is usually the player with the most wins. If there is a two player tie, take the winner of the match between them. In the rare instance of a three player tie, calculate the percentage of points won of the number of points played.
At the end / next step
o Announce the winning player for each group.
o Introduce promotion and relegation if you have more than one box.
Variations
o Play doubles.
o Play using timed tennis format on one day.
o An alternative to would be to run a Tennis Ladder. Put all the players in your club on a ladder and players are allowed to challenge the player located either one spot or two spots ahead of them on the ladder.
Resources
o Round Robin Box Sheets
o Order of Play Guidance
o Mini Tennis & Tie Break Score Sheets