≡ 9/05/09 ≡ Critical Words to Know!
≡ Approach Shot≡
When running up from the baseline to hit a mid- or short-court shot with the intention of getting to net.
≡ Closed Practice≡
Closed practices are for members of the CT and TS only. Participants must be invited either by the Coach(es) or members of the UCLA Club Tennis Advisory Board. The purpose of Closed practice is to enhance CT/TS members' skill in preparation for Regionals/Nationals play, so numbers permitted for attendance are limited. Closed practices generally take place twice a week, two hours each, and go from Winter quarter through the second week of Spring quarter.
≡ CT≡
Stands for "Competitive Team." This is the team that UCLA Club Tennis sends out to competitions that count for ranked play: namely, the Southern California Regional Championships ("Regionals"). Members for this team are added through personal invite of the Coach, and CT members must also be members of UCLA Club Tennis. Generally the CT is comprised of sixteen to twenty members, including alternates. CT members are eligible for participation in both open and closed practices.
≡ Dues≡
Dues are club membership fees - all those balls, tournaments, and social gatherings do cost the club some money! Dues may be paid on a quarterly basis, with the amount consistent among Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. There is a substantial discount for those who decide to pay yearly dues within the first two weeks of Fall Quarter.
$15 of every member's registration cost goes directly to UCLA Recreation's administrative fees. This Administrative cost is generally not considered a part of Club "dues" although it must be paid in conjunction with them. For example, if Club Dues are $95, $95 is paid to the club and an additional $15 is paid to UCLA Recreation, for a total $110 registration fee.
Club dues currently cannot be paid online.
≡ LATC≡
Stands for the "Los Angeles Tennis Center." Home to UCLA Club Tennis as well as UCLA's championship Men's and Women's teams. Click here to view campus map. Click here to view LATC layout
≡ NT=TS≡
Stands for "Nationals Team." Also known as the "Traveling Squad." These are eight to twelve individuals selected from the CT that have participated in at least two ToC events and have shown significant prowess in their tennis game and team spirit. Members of the NT are chosen from the CT in March and begin selective training for competition in the National Tennis on Campus ("Nationals") tournament held in April.
| 2009 NT | |
| Spencer Cohen | Emily Wu |
| Andre Michelin | Alyssa Chen |
| Ricky Wu | Chikako Shimura |
| Michael Sims | Rhea Escano |
| 2008 NT | |
| Spencer Cohen | Chikako Shimura |
| Will Lam | Alyssa Chen |
| Patrick Williams | Adeline Yang |
| Andre Michelin | Cristina Toth |
| Sarah Lowe | |
≡ Officer≡
Several Officer positions exist. Future Officers and Officer positions TBA.
≡ Open=General Practice≡
Practices held on a weekly basis (currently every Monday and Thursday, 6-8 PM) that are open to all registered UCLA Club Tennis members. We usually do drills, play games, and set up matches over this period! Practices are always held at LATC unless otherwise specified.
≡ Pro Set≡
A Pro set is one wherein the game is sudden-death at deuce, otherwise known as No-Ad. Pro Sets may be played in either 6-game or 8-game variants. A tiebreaker, first to 5 points sudden death, is played at 5-5 for a 6-game Pro set or at 8-8 for an 8-game Pro set.
≡ Scoring≡
See Pro Set, WTT Format, tiebreaker
≡ SCTA≡
Stands for "Southern California Tennis Association."
≡ Strauss Clubhouse≡
Refers to the Clubhouse located between the stadium and back courts of LATC. Click here to view LATC layout.
≡ Sudden Death≡
The last point played determines the winner. Most applicable in cases of a tiebreaker: if playing a 7-point tiebreaker and the score is 6-6, whoever wins the last point to get to 7 wins the match.
≡ Sycamore Courts≡
These courts generally do NOT require reservations since so few know about them. There are no lights at Sycamore, so it is unusable at night. Click here for a RL picmap to Sycamore courts.
≡ Tiebreaker≡
There are three main forms of the tiebreaker.
5-point: Used in WTT Format/Pro Set, the 5-point tiebreaker starts with a change of server. The server serves from the duece side, then from the ad side. Then there is a change of server. Each server serves twice. The winner of the tiebreaker is the first one to five points. At 4-4, the next point wins - this is also known as sudden death. In the case of a 4-4 sudden death point, whoever served at 4-3 or 3-4 will serve the third ball to determine the tiebreaker.
7-point: Used in both Pro Set and Regular Set, the 7-point tiebreaker starts with a change of server. The server serves once from the ad side. This is followed by a change of server, who begins serving on the ad side before serving on the deuce side. From this point on, each server serves twice. Whoever reaches 7 points first wins, but the tiebreaker is win-by-two. Thus, at 6-6 in order to win, one must win 8-6.
10-point: Used in Regular Set (rare), the 10-point tiebreaker is identical to the 7-point except it is played to 10 points, win by two. The 10-point tiebreaker is most often played as a replacement for a third set. It is also known as the supertiebreaker, though this is often confused with the WTT format supertiebreaker which is used to determine the match if two teams are tied in games.
≡ ToC≡
Stands for "Tennis on Campus." Monthly tournaments held throughout Southern California Campuses serving to enhance our collegiate tennis community. UCLA Club Tennis generally participates in all ToC events held on major campuses. These tournaments are generally kept open to all interested UCLA Club members free of charge.
≡ WTT Format≡
Regionals and Nationals both employ WTT (World Team Tennis) Format competition. 6-Game Pro sets are played as follows:
| 1 | Men's doubles | Women's doubles |
| 2 | Men's singles | Women's singles |
| 3 | Mixed doubles | |
In WTT Format, whoever has the most games - not sets - wins the match. Say the following scenario occurs:
| Men's doubles | Loss | 4-6 |
| Women's doubles | Loss | 4-6 |
| Men's singles | Loss | 4-6 |
| Women's singles | Loss | 4-6 |
| Total games | 16-24 | |
This puts the team down a total of 8 games, in order to tie. If they win the mixed doubles set 6-0, they are still short two games. Should this occur, the mixed doubles team of the team that is down in games may keep on winning games until the two teams are tied. Once tied, a supertiebreaker to 7 points is played; the winner of the tiebreaker wins the match.
If the team that is down is also down in their set, say 4-5, they must then win 9 more games to tie (a score of 13-5). The team that is down may continue winning games until the team that is up reaches 6 games first, or if the team that is up wins a game once the down team is past 6 games.
To clarify: Once past 6 games, the team that is down must win all following games consecutively. If the team that is up wins a game at 0-7 to bring it to 1-7, the team that is down can no longer win games and will lose the match 23-25.
If the team that is down loses their mixed doubles set, then they lose the match.
More examples:
| Match | Win/Loss | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score |
| Men's doubles | Win | 6 | 3 |
| Women's doubles | Loss | 4 | 6 |
| Men's singles | Loss | 2 | 6 |
| Women's singles | Win | 6 | 1 |
| Total games | 18 | 16 | |
| Minimum mixed score needed to win | 4-6 | 6-3 | |
| Possible final game score | 23-22 | 22-21 | |
| Match | Win/Loss | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score |
| Men's doubles | Loss | 0 | 6 |
| Women's doubles | Loss | 0 | 6 |
| Men's singles | Loss | 2 | 6 |
| Women's singles | Loss | 3 | 6 |
| Total games | 5 | 24 | |
| Minimum mixed score needed to win | 6-0 | 1-6 | |
| Additional games past 6 needed to win | 13-0 | none | |
| Possible final game score | 25-24 | 25-12 | |
Although Team 2 in the second example could technically lose 0-6 and still be ahead in games, if they do not win at least one game then Team 1 would be able to continue matchplay to 1-6, then 2-6, then 3-6, and so on until Team 2 manages to win one game or Team 1 ties up the set score at 19-0.
| Match | Win/Loss | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score |
| Men's doubles | Win | 6 | 4 |
| Women's doubles | Win | 7 | 5 |
| Men's singles | Loss | 4 | 6 |
| Women's singles | Win | 7 | 6 |
| Total games | 24 | 21 | |
| Minimum mixed score needed to win | 4-6 | 6-2 | |
| Additional games past 6 needed to win | none | none | |
| Possible final game score | 28-27 | 27-26 | |
| Match | Win/Loss | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score |
| Men's doubles | Win | 6 | 3 |
| Women's doubles | Win | 6 | 4 |
| Men's singles | Win | 6 | 4 |
| Women's singles | Win | 6 | 4 |
| Total games | 24 | 15 | |
| Minimum mixed score needed to win | 1-6 | 6-0 | |
| Additional games past 6 needed to win | none | 3-0 | |
| Possible final game score | 25-21 | 25-24 | |
In the fourth scenario above, Team 2 would need to win 9 consecutive games to tie up the score at 24-24, and then also win the tiebreaker in order to win the match. If they dropped a game at 4-1, then they would need to win six consecutive games for a final match score of 10-1; if they dropped two games (i.e., 4-2) then they would need a final set score of 11-2.