Starting the 2024 Season of Friendship Cup Tennis Tournaments...  with Friendship Cup 2024 Doubles

Later the season will continue with Singles and finally Team Tennis.

We welcome all level of players, beginners to advanced.

We are having multiple divisions, with combined ratings levels of pairs ranging from 6.0 to 8.0. 

For all players registered in USTA, we will be strictly following your current USTA level.

Division-A : Combined Rating 6.0 - each player up to 3.0

Division-B : Combined Rating 6.5 - each player up to 3.5

Division-C : Combined Rating 7.0 - each player3.0 to 3.5

Division-D : Combined Rating 7.5 - each player 3.0 to 4.5

Division-E : Combined Rating 8.0 - each player 3.5 to 4.5

Tournament format, for each division, will be

• Stage-1 : Round-Robin within each group, followed by
• Stage-2 : Playoffs - Single Elimination format... leading to Championship Final.

We will have Playoffs in each division to determine the Champions in each Division.

Based on the number of entries in each division, we will divide participants into Groups within the Division.

Round-Robin Stage starts tentatively in 1st week of Mar-2024.

Each week you have to play 1 match within your group and Division.
If you couldn't complete your match in a week, it would be marked as Draw, no points for both sides.
At the end of RR Stage, Top-2 pairs from each Group will qualify for Playoffs.

Match Format - All Matches will be played as below

• All Matches will be Home v/s Visitor - each pair will have equal opportunity
• Home Player to bring Match Balls & gets to choose venue
  (If the venue is a paid facility, like CTP, every player will be responsible for their share of court fees)
• Best of 3 Sets
• Regular Ad-Scoring
  
• Regular 7-point Set Tie-Breaker, at 6-6 set score
  
• 3rd set will be played as a 10-point Match Tie-Breaker, in Coman format
  (You can find more details at http://www.southernleaguetennis.com/coman_rules.html)

As we say in Tennis, Love-All... Let the game begin !!!

Remember this is Friendship League... just play to have fun, but, still be competitive.