Thursday Night Doubles League Rules

The League will be a 10-week season, and will consist of 10 teams. Each team will play each other once. The cost per player will be $ 275 for the season.

The Setauket club will furnish the schedule for the 10 weeks, and will be posted on this website. The League will last 11 weeks; the 10th week being a makeup week. Week # 11 will be the Playoff week (playoff format is TBD by club owners).

If one of the 2 players on a team cannot play in a given week, a substitute player can replace the person who cannot make it. If both players on a team cannot make it to a match, then that team will receive a forfeit (i.e., 0 Wins and 2 Losses), and the winning team will receive 2 Wins and 0 Losses, unless, of course, the match can be rescheduled.

According to Jay (club owner), you will need to have both players on a team play in 7 out of 9 weeks, in order to qualify for the playoffs. That is, you will only be allowed to sub 2 weeks out of the first 9.

A match will continue until a doubles team wins 2 sets.

The first 2 sets of a match will be played as regular ad-based sets. A 3rd set will be played in no-ad fashion, unless it is deemed by both teams that there is ample time to play an ad-based set.

In a 3rd, no-ad based set, 4 points (win by 1) constitutes a game. If a game has a 3-3 score, the non-serving team must elect which court the serving team has to serve the ball to.

If any of the 3 sets goes into a tiebreaker (TB), the 1st team to get to 7 points wins it. You must win a tiebreaker by 2 points.

League standings will be determined by win/loss record based on sets. For example, if in a given week, you play a match and win the match in 3 sets, you would receive 2 Wins and 1 Loss for the match.

For playoff seeding purposes, if there is a tie in the standings, then the first tiebreaker will be head-to-head sets won/lost. If that does not break the tie, the second tiebreaker will be overall Games won/lost winning percentage.

Proposed Playoff format:
Playoff Week # 1:
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1) 1 vs. 2 get BYES and will have a practice match (2 out of 3 sets)
2) 3 vs. 6 (2 out of 3 sets)
3) 4 vs. 5 (2 out of 3 sets)
4) 7 vs. 10 (2 out of 3 sets)
5) 8 vs. 9 (2 out of 3 sets)

Playoff Week # 2:
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6) 1 vs. Winner of Match # 3 (1 8-game Pro Set)
7) 2 vs. Winner of Match # 2 (1 8-game Pro Set)
9) Loser of Match # 2 vs. Loser of Match # 3 (2 out of 3 sets) - 5th place
10) Winner of Match # 4 vs. Winner of Match # 5 (2 out of 3 sets) - 7th Place
11) Loser of Match # 4 vs. Loser of Match # 5 (2 out of 3 sets) - 9th place
12) Loser of Match # 6 vs. Loser of Match # 7 (1 8-game Pro Set) - 3rd place
13) Winner of Match # 6 vs. Winner of Match # 7 (1 8-game Pro Set) - 1st place

NOTE: Pro Set Matches are played with ad-games (i.e., you must win each game by the normal 2 points). Should the Pro Set be tied 7-7, a normal 7-point tiebreaker (get to 7 points, must win by 2), will decide the Pro Set.