Marlborough Tennis

Events

We will be holding the following events: 

• Men's singles
• Ladies singles
• Men's Doubles: Enter either with a partner or if you would like to play but don't have a partner, put your name down to be paired with others looking for a partner.
• Ladies Doubles: Enter either with a partner or if you would like to play but don't have a partner, put your name down to be paired with others looking for a partner.
• Mixed Doubles: Enter either with a partner or if you would like to play but don't have a partner, put your name down to be paired with others looking for a partner.
• Roll-Up Doubles:  Put your name down to be paired with others looking for a partner. All entries will be put in a hat and names drawn to form pairs (which may be any combination of men/women, although we will try to keep it as mixed as possible). This is a more light-hearted, fun event.
• Plate events will be held if the number of entries in an event justifies doing so.

Format: 

• All matches will be two tiebreak sets, with match tiebreak (first to 10 and clear by 2), if tied at 1 set all.
• Fair play is expected. Please be generous about line calls and play a let if unsure. Less than fair play should be reported to the club captains and may result in you being withdrawn form the competition.
• Minimum entry of 4 entries for event to happen (i.e. at least semi-finals and finals)
• Seeding will be entirely at the discretion of the Seedings Sub-committee.

How to Enter

• £5 for one event and £10 total for more than one event.
• To be paid on entry using the following link https://buy.stripe.com/5kA8wx4KR9rJeDC9AC
• Use the quantity dropdown for multiples of £5
• Send your payment confirmation email to compete@marlboroughtennis.co.uk. Stating which events you would like to enter and your partner(s) if you have them
• No pay, no entry into the draw, and no play.

Timing:

• Entries are open now and close on Sunday 9th June at 5 pm. Seedings will then be completed and the draw posted by Sunday 16th June if possible.

• We are aiming to have deadlines for rounds, if at all possible you should keep to these. The earlier rounds may depend on number of entries and will be tweaked if necessary, but roughly as follows:

1st round by 10th July / 2nd round by 25th July / 3rd round by 11th August /Quarter finals by 25th August/ Semi-finals by 8th September

• The Finals will be held on Saturday 14th September starting at 2pm. You must be available to play on finals day – please do not enter if not.
• The earlier rounds are to be arranged at mutually convenient times by the players concerned. Depending on entries it may be necessary to set deadlines for completing earlier rounds to make sure all matches can be completed ahead of Finals Day. We will advise on deadlines once final entries are known.

Admin

• Good used or new balls should be provided by the players themselves for the earlier round matches.
• New balls will be provided for each finals match
• All main finals will have umpires
• A WhatsApp Group will be set up to help with arranging matches etc.
• Only open to paid up club members
• Must be 13 years or older on 1st September 2024.

Good luck!