Traditional Team Tennis Rules

Season & Location

Team Tennis Matches are played one Sunday per month, April through September. The September match will be a fun, non-competitive celebration of the season.

Two sessions are played every month: 9am-11am and 11am-1pm. Players will attend one or the other. The schedule is set by their team captain.

Matches are played at Arguello Tennis Courts.

Team Structure

There are 5 teams in total. A team consists of 8 players: 2 3.0 men, 2 3.0 women, 2 3.5 men and 2 3.5 women. One of the players will be the team's captain.  Team members will be drafted by the team captain with the intent of achieving parity among all teams.

(Advanced team tennis teams are typically made up of four teams, 3 men and 3 women per team, rated 4.0 or above. Registration will be limited once gender requirements are met.)

Substitutions

All Team Tennis leagues will maintain a substitution list for players that were interested in playing but unable to register in time.  Please check with Coordinator of your league (Traditional: Pam Fuerst; Advanced: Moti Agrawal) if you wish to be added to the substitute list.  The coordinator is responsible for finding subs for teams short of players.

Match Setup

Each week four teams will play, and one team will have a bye. The team with the bye will be first choice for subs. Two teams are home and two teams are visiting, determined by the Coordinator.

A match will consist of eight sets of doubles. All members for the team play in the match. Each player will play 2 sets. Typically, there is one set of same-gender and one set of mixed-gender. Type and order of play is determined by the “home captain”.

Match Scoring

The team winning the greatest number of sets wins the match. If there is a tie, number of games won with be the decider.

Set Scoring

Sets are to be "Pro sets" - the first team to win 8 games and be ahead by 2 games wins. If the set score reaches 7-7, then a 5-point tie breaker will be played. The tie breaker is sudden death--first to 5 points wins; you do not need to win by two.

Game Scoring

Games are no ad - the first team to win four points wins the game.

For mixed doubles with the score tied 3-3, the receiving player shall be of the same gender as the server. For same-gender doubles with different level players, the serve goes to the same level receiver. If the player levels are the same, the serve is receivers choice.