TEAM CAPTAINS

Each team will have a captain whose role is to: 

• Set matches on each court, together with the other captain, in order to make the three best matches possible each week.
• Make sure scores are recorded in the black binder in the club house for all three courts after the matches are finished.
• Be a resource for teammates who are having difficulty finding a substitute.
• Keep in touch with their team and help ensure that everyone has fun.

PLAYERS

For a successful house league season, each team must have six available players. It is therefore your responsibility to do the following:

• Be on time.
• Find your own replacement and notify your captain, if you are unable to attend a scheduled match.
  (To find a replacement, you can use the spare list for your team, spares from other teams, and the people noted as substitutes at the bottom of the team list.)

SCORING

• Each court will play sets up to six games.  
• Warm up time should not exceed 10 minutes.
• At a 6-6 set match, a 7 point tiebreaker is played, to be won by two points.
• At the third deuce, a sudden death is played in the deuce court.
• After two sets, if time permits, continue to play and keep score.
• The match must finish 5 minutes prior to the next match time. 

If a game is in progress upon the 5-minute countdown, the game must be completed with a “Sudden Death Deuce.” 

RECORDING

• Scores should be recorded in the house league scoring book in the clubhouse.
• Results are recorded each week, the total number of games played by each team, and the number of games won by each team.  
• Standings from week-to-week will be determined by dividing the total team games won by the total team games played.  
• The team with the highest percentage of games won will be ranked first, and so on.  
• Any partial sets will contribute to the overall games played.
• Monday and Wednesday team standings will be posted regularly on the ACTC website.
• In the event of default (NO-SHOW), the defaulting team will be deemed to have lost the MATCH(ES) by a SCORE OF 0-6, 0-6 and those scores will be recorded. 

RAIN DATES

Since the 17+ week schedule extends into September, there won’t be time to reschedule rained-out matches for later in the season. However, the percentage scoring approach described above will mean that rained out games will not make a significant difference to a team’s overall percentage of games won.

PLAYOFFS

The objective is to have a two-week playoff after the regular schedule as a finale to the house league season, weather permitting. More details on the playoff schedule will be provided closer to that time.