Rules

Oadby (Granville) Club Tournament 2014

Please read the information below before completing your form.

• The annual club tournament is open to all full Senior members, Students, Intermediates and Invited Juniors.

• Please complete one entry form per person. For doubles events it is essential that we have forms from both players with availability.

• Forms can be collected from the club or downloaded from the website. Once filled in they can be left at the club in the post tray, posted to the club or e-mailed to info@oadbytennis.co.uk

• Availability

Please take into account your availability when deciding how many events to enter. Entering four+ events, for example, will require you to have good availability throughout the tournament and you will be expected to play two matches some evenings/at weekends.

We ask that you check your availability for the whole tournament fortnight now and do not introduce new unavailability once you have entered as this always causes problems with scheduling. Please note that the scheduler/organisers reserve the right to scratch any player in this respect. Details of unavailability must be filled in on all entry forms.

• It is the responsibility of all competitors to find out their match times.

The schedule of play and updated draws will be online by the following day. If you do not have internet access, please indicate this on your entry form and match times can be texted to you. Please do notphone or e-mail the scheduler to find out your match times. You will be emailed with a link to the tournament site to see draws/match times. Please always check to see whether you have one or twomatches on any day/evening.

• Please arrive on time for all matches. If you are likely to be late, please phone the clubhouse to inform the organisers (0116 2712889). As scheduling can be tight, please be aware that if you are unreasonably late, it is likely that your opponent(s) will be given a walkover.

• There will be a sheet on the competitors’ desk at the clubhouse for any messages which need to be passed onto the Scheduler. This includes any non-avoidable problems with availability due to work commitments, for example.

Please don’t e-mail, phone or text with changes as messages cannot always be picked up and this can lead to further problems.

• Entry rules for age events are:- Over 35 – must be aged 35 by 31/12/14

Veteran men must be 45 and veteran women must be 40 by 31/12/14

• Matches will be the best of 3 sets, with a tie-break at 6 all in all sets.

The Men’s Over 45’s will be a Championship tie-break at one set all.

• Finals will be held on Saturday 13^th and Sunday 14^th September.

• If you would like us to find you a partner for any doubles event, please put ‘Partner Required’ on the form and we will do our best to help.

• The usual club dress code applies throughout the tournament i.e. white shirts/tops or coloured tennis shirts/tops - no football shirts or beachwear.

• The usual club expectations about behaviour both on and off court apply throughout the tournament.

• All competitors must provide a can of good quality tennis balls for their matches.

• The draw will take place on Bank Holiday weekend at the club.

• Granville Plate

All first round losers who are senior members may sign up for the “Granville Plate” competition. In order to make the Plate open to those who will not win another event, members who later reach any final will not be eligible. It is members’ responsibility to enter themselves in the draw – a list will be on the tournament desk. Please note that there is no reverse draw and that partners are drawn for this event. Also, this event will only run if we have 12 players who want to take part.