Ladder / River Procedures

When you arrive, you will be assigned a starting partner and a court number.  The courts are arranged in a sequence from lowest number to highest court number. Players progress up toward the highest court or down to lowest numbered court.

Match Play

• All matches are four [4] games, where each player serves

• Rossmoor sun rule for serving is in effect. [i.e. the server chooses which end to serve from, typically south end]

• No-ad scoring is used for each game. First to 4 points, win by two.

• If the game score reaches 3-3, the receiving team decides who will receive the deciding point. 

  • Usually men serve to men, women serve to women,

  • but the receiving team may choose to have a women receive serve from a man.

• If there is a 2-2 tie, there is a sudden death, single point tie breaker: the most recent server serves, and the receiving team decides who receives. This will NOT affect scores, just decide who moves court.

• On the odd numbered rounds, the women serve first, and on the even rounds the men serve first.

Rotations

• Winners move up to the next higher number court, losers move down. Highest and lowest courts stay put.

• Teams split after every match so you only play with the same player one time.

• One player spins to decide which opponent to partner with unless

• they have played with one before, in which case these must partner with the other player
• or the other pair has never played together
• or they have all played with both potential partners, then they partner with the least recent player 

Report match results to the tournament scorer after each round.