Information on the Brampton Tennis Club's House Leagues

We're sure that everyone is anxious for beautiful weather and another fun season of tennis. The format is the same as last year, with the Thursday league playing from 7:15 - 10:45 pm and the Friday league from 7:15 to 10:45 pm.

Players who join House League are placed on a mixed team of 4 players in such a way that each team is (hopefully) equal in strength to every other team. Teams play weekly matches in a round-robin format in a friendly and not overly competitive or overly aggressive environment.

Again this year, the minimum ranking for Thursday House League is 2.0, the minimum ranking for Friday House League is 3.0, and NEW members must be rated by our Club Pro.

The House League Tournament scheduled for mid September will be the highlight of our season.

This year, in an attempt to reduce the number of “no shows” during the season, regular players must be able to play at least 75% of the scheduled evenings. If not, we would gladly accommodate you on the list of Spares.

Note: Regular Inter-County Team Players (Mixed, Ladies, and +55) are not permitted to substitute in House Leagues. The Rules, Regulations, Policies and Procedures are in the House League section of the Club House binder.

Janet Evans (Thursday night Coordinator) and Gordon Edgar (Friday night Coordinator)

1. You must be fully paid up to play on, or substitute on a House League team.
2. The Captain will arrange his/her team from strongest to weakest to ensure good competition. Players are ranked in accordance with the National Tennis Rating System. New members are ranked by the Club Pro prior to placement on a team.
3. A team usually consists of 4 regular players. If there are more than 4 regular players on a team, the Captain is to give equal playing time to all of them.
4. If the regulars are not available for play, they must obtain their own substitutes as follows:
   a) Select a substitute based upon similar gender and equivalent rating.
   b) Select substitutes in the following priority:
   - Subs within the House League Sub List
   - Subs within the Tennis Club membership (Excluding Juniors and ICTA team players).
   - Players on other House League teams who are free and willing to substitute.
5. Players are not permitted to be regular members of both Mixed, Ladies, or Plus 55 Inter-County Teams and House League Teams. A regular member of a House League team can play as a substitute on a Mixed or Ladies Inter-County team a maximum of two (2) times. If he/she substitutes three (3) times on an ICTA team, he/she is excluded from further House League play. Exempt from this rule: regular house league players who substitute only on the ICTA Ladies C or Plus 55 teams.
6. A player is responsible to inform his/her captain if unable to play and who their replacement is. If a player fails to notify the Captain in the case of absence more than once, they may be replaced on the team by a substitute who is on the waiting list and wants to be a regular member of a team.
7. If team members are missing, a single player may compete against a doubles team using proportionate court boundaries. (singles to doubles)
8. Each team must bring a can of good tennis balls.
9. Warm Up time is limited to five (5) minutes. Team players arriving late do not have a warm up.
10. Each session consists of two matches of forty-five minutes long, the game score being taken at the end of 45 minutes. A maximum of ten (10) points can be scored.
11. At the end of the first match the point in progress will be completed. If the game is incomplete then the match score prior to that game will be used.
12. Captains are responsible for recording their team scores. (Game scores plus Bonus points). Bonus Points (maximum of 10) are awarded to each team using regular team members. This is determined by two (2) points per team members and an additional two (2) for a full complement.
13. Any dispute is to be addressed after the game among the two captains and the House League Chairperson.
14. Rained out matches will be cancelled. If time allows, they will be re-played at the end of the schedule.