Formats, rules and scoring confirmed for Battle of the Brits Team Tennis

25/07/20 • 3 MINUTE READ

With the St James’s Place Battle of the Brits Team Tennis tournament taking place next week fans are eagerly anticipating seeing their favourite British stars back on court. With the top men’s and women’s players coming together for this unique team event, find out more about the format of the tournament, its rules and scoring.

Event Outline

Over the course of the week there will be 60 matches in total – 40 singles and 20 doubles matches. Players from the Union Jacks and British Bulldogs will face off across the 7 days to gain points for their team, with the first team to reach 60 points being crowned the eventual champions. That means that every match counts and throughout the event individual matches will be worth between 1 and 5 points.

But no two matches are the same and as the week progresses the stakes will only get higher, with points available per match increasing each day. This will eventually build up to a ‘Super Sunday’ where there will be 10 matches with a total of 29 points up for grabs.

You can see a full breakdown of the points available below.

Team Selection

Each team member must be nominated for 2 matches across the week. The first match must be between Monday and Wednesday, and the second between Thursday and Sunday.

Players can only play a maximum of 2 matches per day, but can only compete in 1 match of any discipline – Singles, Doubles and Mixed.

Teams must make their nominations for the next day’s play by 7:00pm each day.

How will matches be scored?

Singles matches will be played as a best of 3 sets format, with Ad scoring and a 10pt match tie-breaks. Changeover times will be 60 seconds with 120 seconds at the end of sets.

Doubles matches will also be scored as a best of 3 sets but without Ad scoring. They will also have a 10pt match tie-break at 1 set all and changeover time will be 45 seconds with 90 seconds at the end of sets.

Points breakdown

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts
Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts
Women's Singles 1pt	Men's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 2pts	Men's Singles 1pt	Women's Singles 3pts
Men's Singles 1pt	Men's Singles 2pts	Men's Singles 1pt	Men's Singles 1pt	Men's Singles 2pts	Men's Singles 2pts	Women's Singles 3pts
Men's Singles 1pt	Mens Singles 3pts	Men's Singles 2pts	Men's Singles 1pt	Men's Singles 2pts	Mens singles 3pts	Men's Singles 2pts
Men's Singles 1pt	Mixed Doubles 1pt	Mixed Doubles 1pts	Men's Singles 1pt	Men's Doubles 2pts	Women's Doubles 2pts	Men's Singles 2pts
Men's Doubles 2pts	Mixed Doubles 2pts	Mixed Doubles 2pts	Women's Doubles 2pts	mixed doubles 3pts	Men's Doubles 2pts	Men's Singles 3pts
Mixed Doubles 2pts	Women's Doubles 2pts	Men's Doubles 3pts	Men's Doubles 2pts	Mixed Doubles 3pts	Mixed Doubles 3pts	Men's Singles 3pts
Mixed Doubles 3pts			Mixed Doubles 3pts			Mixed Doubles 4pts
						Mixed Doubles 5pts
13pts	13pts	15pts	15pts	17pts	17pts	29pts

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