Match format and Rules

  • The participants are divided into groups, where each group has 6-7 players.

  • You meet each player/team, within their group, once, which gives 5-6 matches per player and round.

  • After each round of play, 2 moves up and 2 moves down to the nearest higher and lower group are made.

  • Match time is 50 min and 10 min warm-up. Set a mobile phone on timer with end signal after 59 min.

  • The matches are played with game counting. All won games give points.

  • The sum of the players' points is 6 and these are distributed in relation to the result, everything is calculated automatically when you enter your result in the Backhand Mash after the match.

 

Game rules

  • Page changes take place after every odd number of games (1, 3, 5, etc.).

  • In all group games, you play with "ads", i.e. long game.

  • When the bell rings, the match is over, i.e. you have not finished playing the ongoing ball. Any ongoing game is then not counted, but the standings after the most recently completed game are valid.

 

Judgment

  • Everyone judges on their side.

  • If there is the slightest doubt as to whether a ball is in or out, the ruling is in favor of the opponent. "Doubt is in!" (you don't play for the ball).

 

Scoring

  • After each completed point, the serving player must announce the score in the game loudly and clearly before the next ball is played.

 

Results

  • After each match, the result must be reported immediately in the program Backhandsmash.

 

WO

  • In the case of a valid Walk Over (WO), the "winner" gets 4 points and the loser 0 points.

  • "No show" - If a player/team cannot play at the specified match time, this must be reported at least 12 hi in advance, otherwise this is counted as a WO.

  • Players who arrive more than ten minutes late to the appointed match time lose the WO.

  • If a match is interrupted due to injury or other circumstance, the player who interrupts the match loses the WO.

  • Players who are prevented from completing the matches of the round must leave WO in all matches if they have played less than half of their matches.

  • The "third time is right" rule applies! If you contacted your opponent three times and did not get a match time confirmed, this counts as a WO.

 

Booking & Sportsmanship

  • The BHS system's ongoing match mail is a push to all players that the specified opponent should be contacted for a match. The email contains contact details for the opponent and information about who will bring balls to the match. Try, as far as possible, to play the matches in the week that the system indicates. By agreement, however, the match can be played at a different time.

  • Agree on who will book the track. LOVE TENNIS / KLTK does not have reserved times for group games.

  • Remember to have good communication in the match group and respond to requests within 24hrs.

  • It is always the last agreed match time that applies. If a player/team needs to reschedule, it is up to him/her to arrange a new time. A new time proposal must be immediately communicated and confirmed, otherwise the rebooking person/s risk a WO.

  • Keep in mind that dealing with WO and postponed matches should be done with common sense, we play to have fun and because we LOVE Tennis.

  • Players/teams who do not follow the applicable rules and/or show a lack of sportsmanship may be excluded from the group stage.

 

Double Partner Substitute / Injury / Illness

  • If one player in a doubles pair falls ill or injured, he cannot be replaced during the current round. You have one week from the start of the round to make changes, provided no match has been played during this period.

  • In case of injury or illness, this means that you need to leave WO.

 

Return to the group stage

Players who leave the group stage have priority to return for 1 year. You cannot expect to be placed in the same group as before, but LOVE/KLTK will always, subject to space, try to place the returning player in as suitable a group as possible.

 

Ranking

The administration in Love/KLTK gives us the freedom to continuously review the activity in the groups. If you have a place but have not been active in getting your matches together, you can be relegated more than one group. We do this only to benefit the players who are active and want to play a lot of tennis. We will also move up players from lower groups if this is deemed justified so that the groups become more even. The regular promotion and relegation rules will still, as far as possible, be respected.