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USTA Playoff Rules: How Teams Actually Advance
USTA playoff rules are not one national rulebook you can look up and be done with. Advancement is delegated: under Reg. 2.03A(1) your District, Area or Section has the authority to determine the progression of teams to its championship competition, and the champion of the preceding level must be included in that progression if otherwise eligible. So the answer to "do we go to playoffs" is always two answers - the national floor, and your section's own published progression - and the second one is the one that decides your... Read more...
USTA Captain Rules: What You Can and Can't Actually Do
USTA Captain Rules: What You Can and Can't Actually Do USTA captain rules come from one document — the USTA League National Regulations — and they are narrower than most captains assume. You exchange lineups simultaneously before the team match, not after a look at theirs (Reg. 2.01C(6)). You take defaults in a prescribed order from prescribed courts (Reg. 2.03K), you have 48 hours to enter scores in TennisLink (Reg. 1.04C(2)), and coaching during a match is not permitted (Reg. 2.01D). If a self-rated player turns out to be a... Read more...
Tennis Court Etiquette: The Six Rules That Actually Matter
Tennis court etiquette comes down to six habits: call your own lines honestly and call them promptly, never walk behind a court while a point is live, hold your serve until the neighbouring rally ends, keep the score called out loud before every serve, retrieve and return stray balls the moment the point is over, and settle a disputed call by replaying the point rather than arguing it. Almost every awkward moment in recreational and league tennis traces back to one of those six. What we actually print for this... Read more...
Tennis Christmas Gifts: What to Buy the Player Who Already Owns Three Racquets
Tennis Christmas gifts that get worn rather than shelved, with prices and the order-by date worked backwards. Read more...
Pickleball Christmas Gifts: For the One Who Will Not Stop Talking About It
Pickleball Christmas gifts with real prices and an order-by date derived from the actual delivery window. Read more...
Tennis Sayings for Shirts: Lines That Work on a Court and in a Bar
Tennis sayings that survive being printed on something somebody has to wear in public. Read more...
Tennis Gifts for Women: What We Actually Make, and What We Do Not
Tennis gifts for women, with a straight answer about the one women's cut this store makes. Read more...
Tennis Stickers for Water Bottles: What Survives a Season Courtside
Weatherproof kiss-cut tennis stickers for water bottles, with what actually survives a season courtside. Read more...
Pickleball Shirt Sayings: The Lines That Land at Open Play
Pickleball shirt sayings that land at open play, and why the kitchen does most of the work. Read more...
Pickleball Stickers for Water Bottles: The Cheapest Way to Find Your Bottle
Weatherproof kiss-cut pickleball stickers for water bottles, and what actually survives open play. Read more...
Pickleball Gifts for Couples: Matched Without the Matching Tracksuits
Pickleball gifts for couples and doubles partners that work as a pair and survive being worn alone. Read more...
Men's Moisture-Wicking Tennis Shirts: Which Ones Actually Wick
Exactly one blank in our range wicks -- the A4 N3142 performance crew. Here is which shirts are on it and which are cotton. Read more...