beginner, adv beginner, intermediate...

[raiden031]

I'm just curious how you might map beginner, advanced beginner, intermediate, advanced into NTRP levels.

Here's my first crack at it.

beginner - < 2.5
advanced beginner - 2.5
intermediate - 3.0-3.5
advanced - 4.0+

4.0 is probably border line between intermediate and advanced so it could go either way. Does this look about right?

 

[Geezer Guy]

I think the "beginner" level would depend a LOT on natural talent and athletic ability. Could probably be anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5.

 

[kevhen]

1.0-2.0 beginner
2.5 intermediate beginner
3.0 advanced beginner (recreational level)
3.5 intermediate (competition level)
4.0 advanced intermediate
4.5 intermediate advanced
5.0 advanced (open level)

 

[Cindysphinx]

1.0-2.0 beginner
2.5 intermediate beginner
3.0 advanced beginner (recreational level)
3.5 intermediate (competition level)
4.0 advanced intermediate
4.5 intermediate advanced
5.0 advanced (open level)

Forget it, Kevhen. Raider says that a 3.0 like me can be considered intermediate. Let's go with that, shall we?

 

[Ace]

Forget it, Kevhen. Raider says that a 3.0 like me can be considered intermediate. Let's go with that, shall we?

Hahah...Cindy....comments like that are the root of the confusion of USTA ratings and the use of "Club" ratings which are extremely bloated.

Be proud of your Advanced Beginner status! There is nothing shameful about it.

 

[cak]

Here's the thing about these ratings, if you even have a rating you play way more than most tennis players. A couple years ago my husband and I were playing 6.0 mixed, I was coming back to tennis after breaking my arm in two places, so we weren't what you would consider heavy 3.0s. Long time friends of ours, who are very athletic, but only play tennis a few times a year were just coming back from vacation, where they entered and won a local "open" tournament in their small home town. So they wanted to play. I wander out, thinking if we pulled together it could be close. Well, not really, they got two games off of us, in two sets. And they were absolutely flummoxed. They had blown away all these players in Northern Michigan. Who, when it came down to it, probably also played tennis about twice a year, and the week before that tournament. No one in that tournament played leagues, or USTA tennis. So there is recreational, and recreational.

 

[kevhen]

Since the small town where I grew up doesn't have tennis in school, the highest level of play I ever saw around there was 3.0 level and I do know two people on USTA teams from my home town who also have a 3.0 rating. Most people who only play a couple times a year are 2.5 level.

I could probably beat everyone of the 700 people in my hometown playing left-handed since I play at a 3.5 level that way.

 

[Cindysphinx]

Be proud of "advanced beginner?" *NEVER!*

I'm about as high in the USTA ratings as I will ever get. It is all downhill from here. So, given my age and natural ability, I am "advanced." Advanced for me, anyway . . .

 

[Geezer Guy]

Since the small town where I grew up doesn't have tennis in school, the highest level of play I ever saw around there was 3.0 level and I do know two people on USTA teams from my home town who also have a 3.0 rating. Most people who only play a couple times a year are 2.5 level.

I could probably beat everyone of the 700 people in my hometown playing left-handed since I play at a 3.5 level that way.

I grew up in a small town in western Kansas, and one time when I went back they were having a tennis tournament. I thought it might be fun to enter, but it was mixed doubles (which I don't really enjoy), and I've been gone a long time and don't know anyone who plays, so I didn't enter.

Well, I made it a point to drop by about the time the finals were supposed to be played. There were guys running around in jeans and boots, and girls/ladies in sweat suits, and more patty-cake serves than you can shake a stick at.

They were having fun, and that's what counts. I was glad I didn't enter. I could just see me showing up with a couple of racquets in a tennis bag wearing actual tennis clothes. I would have looked like quite the dandy!

(But, I did enter the arm wrestling competition, and won my weight class. Beat my little brother in the finals!)