Ladders

Basics
  • There are three ladders; Open, Ladies, Mixed Teams. You can enter two ladders, but only once per ladder.
  • Teams are placed in a starting position in the ladder.
  • Teams can challenge a team up to 3 places higher than their position to a match. If the challenging team win, they swap positions with the team they beat and climb the ladder.
  • All teams are encouraged to make at least 1 challenge a month.
  • Teams are responsible for organising and arranging their own matches, which should be booked in the normal way via your club.
  • The challenging team should take the lead on organising the fixture and should provide at least three date/time options including at least 2 peak time options to the opposing team, with plenty of notice.
  • Normal club court fees apply.
  • All players will be added to a WhatsApp group for the ladder.
  • The ladder will be managed using the Padel Mates app.
Rules
  • If the team being challenged do not respond or cannot make any of the suggested dates, providing those suggested dates are flexible and accomodating for varying schedules, the challenging team will receive a win and swap positions.
  • Best of 3 sets.
  • Modified Golden Deuce – play 1 normal deuce per game. If it returns to deuce, the second time is Golden (next point wins) with the receiving team deciding which of them will receive the serve.
  • First pairing to 6 games wins a set.
  • If the score gets to 5-5, one pairing must win the next two games to win the set.
  • If the score reaches 6-6 in the set, a tiebreak to 7 is played.
  • The first pairing to win seven points in the tie break, by two, wins the tie-break and the set ends as 7-6.
  • All matches must be played at the hosting club.
  • Changing ends – if at least one team would like to, players should swap ends after the 1st, 3rd and every subsequent odd game in the set. In a tie break, players should swap ends after every 6 points. If a mistake is made and ends are not swapped, even though they were intended to, the correction should be made as soon as possible. All points played before the error was discovered are still valid.
  • If match bookings are arranged at your venue using an app/service that that differentiates between competitive/friendly bookings e.g Playtomic, the matches should be booked as competitive. This is to aid the accuracy or levels and ratings within the apps so we can ensure continued competitiveness within each division.
  • If you run out of time before the full 3 sets are complete during a match, the result of the final set will be valid only if there is a gap of 2 games. For example, if the score of the final set is 3-1 at the end of the time slot and the match needs to end then the team scoring 3 would win that set. If there is no gap of 2 games in the score of the final set then it will be incomplete and that set deemed as a draw.

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