Curious how others would handle this. USTA team, rained out match, captains agreed that each line would self-schedule and report scores. (They were having an impossible time finding a mutually acceptable day that everyone could play together.) I texted my opponent May 4 and she said she's out of town until at least May 10. Got a garbled message this weekend (May 18-19) so I texted her back and she said she's injured, tried playing doubles and realized she's not ready to come back, and we'll aim for first week of June. Play has to be finished by June 8. I'm super busy that week of June and worried she'll try to box me in and suddenly it's ME who is unavailable. I did give her two dates the first week of June and told her once it's on the calendar it has to happen since I have NO flexibility. But IMO this is wrong -- if she's out of town and injured, she needs to default, tell her captain to find someone else, or anything other than just keep putting me off. I told my captain (forwarded captain the texts from the lady) and my captain and her captain talked and agreed she would schedule. That's it. So what would you guys do? I guess maybe this is the problem with self-scheduling individual lines.
Rescheduling excuses - what would YOU do?
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This is my first time playing in this particular region so I don't know what's usually done but I am finding that many of the practices do seem very different than what I'm used to in the past. The thing with this is....IMO it is 100% her fault that we're not able to schedule AND these are excuses she's giving me that would NOT be excuses to avoid playing on the regularly scheduled day. Like if she were injured on match day and it wasn't raining, she couldn't just say she preferred not to play then.
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We also have a rule that a match has to be made up within 14 days of the original scheduled match.
Self-scheduling works if the captains are involved to the extent that the players know that they don't have a choice but to reschedule promptly.
Your situation does seem frustrating.
In the future, reach out to your captain early and explain the problem, especially after the 10th when you didn't hear from her (dd you reach out to her during that week?) ... the opposing captain has the right to put in a different player to complete the match (the original lineup does not have to stand provided no points have been played) .... additionally, most likely your captain could reach out the LLC and request that you receive a default.
The bigger question is whether you want to actually play or collect defaults. Me, I play league in order to play matches.
Self-scheduling works if the captains are involved to the extent that the players know that they don't have a choice but to reschedule promptly.
Your situation does seem frustrating.
In the future, reach out to your captain early and explain the problem, especially after the 10th when you didn't hear from her (dd you reach out to her during that week?) ... the opposing captain has the right to put in a different player to complete the match (the original lineup does not have to stand provided no points have been played) .... additionally, most likely your captain could reach out the LLC and request that you receive a default.
The bigger question is whether you want to actually play or collect defaults. Me, I play league in order to play matches.
We don't have a set deadline, but due to the shenanigans of a few (as is usually the case), we now have a rule that at least 2 of 3, of 3 of 5 courts must be played, and if the others cannot get arranged, they must simply be defaulted. We used to be more flexible and most captains work together, b/c as @ OTL said...people just want to play, so we were able to get them in...defaults are just no good...but unfortunately there's always a few -ahem- 'adults' who can't help themselves but to take advantage of other people's flexibility...
<<I did give her two dates the first week of June and told her once it's on the calendar it has to happen since I have NO flexibility. But IMO this is wrong -- if she's out of town and injured, she needs to default, tell her captain to find someone else, or anything other than just keep putting me off.>>
This is more than adequate, but the caps put you in a bad spot. Opponent captain needs to either find another player or take the default. The caps should have agreed on 1-2 specific dates up front versus throwing that on all the players, IMO...
<<I did give her two dates the first week of June and told her once it's on the calendar it has to happen since I have NO flexibility. But IMO this is wrong -- if she's out of town and injured, she needs to default, tell her captain to find someone else, or anything other than just keep putting me off.>>
This is more than adequate, but the caps put you in a bad spot. Opponent captain needs to either find another player or take the default. The caps should have agreed on 1-2 specific dates up front versus throwing that on all the players, IMO...
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