N.B. This competition has been postponed because of delays with the court reconstruction work. The competition will now be played on 8 & 15 February.
All matches in the UQTC Night Singles Fixtures will be played at the UQ Sport Tennis Centre.
All players who have not participated in UQ Tennis Club Programs must be graded. Grading will be done at Thursday Night or Sunday Afternoon Social Tennis.
Matches will be played over two consecutive Monday nights (11 & 18 January)*.
Entrants must commit for both nights.
Matches will be played from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Entries close on 3 January. Competition is limited to 30 players. Entries will be closed early if entries exceed 30.
This is not a teams competition. Players will compete as individuals.
Entry is open to non-members. Entry fee for memberes is $50. Entry fee for non-members is $60.
Players will be divided into groups of 6 by standard. Each player will play every other player in the group once. At the end of the initial round-robin, everybody will have one play-off match (1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th & 5th v 6th). This means everybody will get 6 matches for the season (5 round-robin matches and 1 play-off match. The aim is to give everybody 6 matches, so the season can be extended where a match is washed out.
Three matches will be played each night (7 to 7:45 p.m., 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. and 8:30 to 9:15 p.m.
Matches will be one set (first to 6 games with a tie-break if the score reached 5-all).
Points will be awarded as follows:Winner - 3 points plus bonus 0.1 point per game wonLoser - 1 point plus bonus 0.1 point per game wonUnfinished match - 2 points plus bonus 0.1 point per game wonForfeit - 0 points for loser, 3.6 points for winner
Entries can be lodged using the entry form that can be downloaded here.
Entries can also be lodged on-line here using the Tennis Australia on-line tournament entry system#.
* Dates are subject to enough courts being available by 11 January, following the court reconstruction work in progress at the UQ Sport Tennis Centre. If the start of the competition is delayed, the matches will be played on 18 January and 1 February.
# When players go to enter on-line, they are asked to create a Tournament account if they don't already have one. To create a Tournament account, players need their 11-digit Tennis Australia My Tennis Player ID Number. Unfortunately, although the TA tournament on-line entry system still requires the 11-digit Player ID Number, TA has stopped issuing Player ID Numbers automatically for new players registered through My Tennis (as it is switching to using player e-mail addresses for identification purposes). This means that players who do not have a Player ID number, or don't remember their number, need to contact Tennis Australia via play@tennis.com.au or 1800 752 983 to obtain their number or have a number created for them (information required - name, postal address, unique e-mail address, birthdate and a phone number).
