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Courts, conduct and cost
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The two players agree, and they split the cost unless the ladder says otherwise. A platform that assigns courts is claiming to know things about your…
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A shorter format reduces the amount of tennis to play, but no point-based format guarantees a finish within an hour.
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The standing convention, which is worth stating in your rules rather than assuming: you call your own side, you call it immediately, and you give the…
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Publish the penalty before it happens and apply it the same way to everybody. It takes two people to file a fake score when both sign off, so a falsified…
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