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Tennis will witness a new league starting on the 28th November with the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) starting in Manila. Top players have descended in Manila for the inaugural edition of the tournament. Matches will be played across four cities – Manila, Singapore, Delhi and Dubai spread over two weeks.
The format of the tournament does not follow the regular ATP/WTA rules and has been modified to make it more exciting for the fans.
Points for the match
Each match will consist of five sets.
Each set is played to six games, with a tie breaker at 5-5. The tie breaker is a shootout which lasts for five minutes.
At Deuce(40-40), there is no advantage point to either player. Whoever wins the next point wins the game.
Each game won is worth one point to the team.
Matches
Each match has five sets – Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Mixed Doubles, Men’s Doubles and Men’s Legends Singles.Home team gets to decide the order of play. Team lineup is given to the umpire 45 minutes before the start of the match.
Match Winner
The team which wins the most games wins the match. In case of a tie, a Super Shootout determines the winner.
Winning team gets four points.
Losing team does not go empty handed. If the losing team:
- Wins more than 20 game points, they get two points.
- Wins more than 10 game points, they get one point.
- Wins less than 10 game points, they get zero points.
Tournament Winner
The team which wins the most game points during the entire league is declared as the winner. If there is a tie in team standings, the team which has won most sets is the winner according to the following criteria in this order:
- Head to head standing.
- Number of games won.
- Number of games lost.
- Biggest games winning margin in any single match win
- Coin toss.
Coin Toss
A coin toss determines the team that gets to serve the first set of each match.
The team that served last in the previous set/Shoot-out will recieve at the beginning of the next set.
In case of a Super Shoot-out, a coin toss will decide who serves first.
Shoot-out and Super Shoot-out
A five (5) minute Shoot-out is played at five (5) games all, to replace the traditional seven (7) point tie breaker.
The Shoot-out follows the traditional tiebreaker rules, which means that the player starting the Shoot-out serves for one (1) point, and from then onwards every player serves for two (2) points.
There will be no change overs, and the player that wins the most points within the four (4) minutes wins the set.
Players have a 20 second Shot Clock between points and lose a point in case the Shot Clock runs out.
If the score is tied at the end of five (5) minutes, the next point wins the Shoot-out and the set.
Each player receives one (1) additional player challenge during the Shoot-out, and any un-used player challenges will be carried over from the set.
The Super Shoot-out is played the same way as the Shoot-out, but it lasts for seven (7) minutes and is played to settle the score in case the total points won by the teams is tied after five (5) sets.
A coin toss decides who serves first in the Super Shoot-out.
Each player receives two player challenges during the Super Shoot-out.
Unless otherwise agreed, the Super Shoot-out is played between the leading men’s players of both teams . In case the leading player is injured, the team can decide to substitute with the other male singles player, or with a doubles/legends player.
Final Set Importance
The final set of each match will be played until either the leading team in overall game scores wins the final set.
If the trailing team in overall games wins the fifth (5th) set and the trailing team is still behind in overall games won, then the match continues until either the trailing team has won enough games to equal the overall score and forces the play of the Super Shoot-out, or the leading team wins one (1) more game to win the match.
In case the player of the team which is leading in overall games won gets injured, then the trailing team automatically wins the set with the total numbers of games needed to equal the score and to force a Super Shoot-out.
Shot Clock
A shot clock manages the following and can be set, stopped and re-started only by the Chair Umpire:
- 20 seconds Shot Clock between points
- 20 seconds Shot Clock between points during Shoot-out and Super Shoot-out
- 45 seconds Shot Clock during change overs
- 60 seconds Shot Clock for Coaches Time-outs
- 3 minutes Shot Clock after the end of each set
- Any time violation will result in a point loss by the violating team
Time-Out
Each Team Coach can call for a Time-out at any time, once (1) during each set; each Time-out lasts for 60 seconds, only.
Power Point
The receiving player can call a Power Point once every set, indicating that the next point counts double.
