Sudden Death Tie-Break

[Cindysphinx]

Oooh, the league where my 3.5 team plays has the craziest tie-break procedure.

As I understand it, they play 90-minute timed matches. Say the first set is 4-6, and the second set goes 6-4. That's a tie.

If the horn blows to declare time is up at that exact second, then the players must quickly play a sudden death tie-break. The home team spins a racquet. The winner elects to serve or receive. The teams play a single point, winner is declared the match winner.

Man, I don't think I'd like that very much. Talk about *pressure!*

 

[HellBunni]

it's a worst than that actually.

if I remember correctly, even if you are lossing 0-6 0-5 and the buzzer sounds, you play a 1 point tie-break. So you can win the match if you can run down the clock and win just 1 point in the whole match.

 

[103xStateChamp]

LOL that would suck especially if they get serve =/

 

[Cindysphinx]

it's a worst than that actually.

if I remember correctly, even if you are lossing 0-6 0-5 and the buzzer sounds, you play a 1 point tie-break. So you can win the match if you can run down the clock and win just 1 point in the whole match.

Not here. If you have lost 11 straight games, it isn't considered a tie. The number of games has to be equal for the butt-clenching tie-break to occur.

What is unfair is this. Say you lose the first set 6-7, and you are serving for the second set 6-5, 40-love. You are one point away from the win, because if you can win the next point, you will have 13 games to your opponent's 12. Alas, time runs out, so you each have 12 games.

You do a sudden death point, which you lose. You lose the match. Had you lost that single point to go to 40-15, you'd have two more chances to win the set and therefore the match.

I like the way we do it in my league. If the opponents won the same number of games, and the parties are not well into a tiebreaker, the winner will be the player(s) whose team won the most games in the entire team match.

 

[flash9]

Sooo Glad

This is one reason I am sooo glad I do not play indoor tennis. It is bad enough that we now play a 10 point tie break for the third set.

 

[Topaz]

Oooh, the league where my 3.5 team plays has the craziest tie-break procedure.

As I understand it, they play 90-minute timed matches. Say the first set is 4-6, and the second set goes 6-4. That's a tie.

If the horn blows to declare time is up at that exact second, then the players must quickly play a sudden death tie-break. The home team spins a racquet. The winner elects to serve or receive. The teams play a single point, winner is declared the match winner.

Man, I don't think I'd like that very much. Talk about *pressure!*

Yup, that's what we do down here...it actually comes up more than you would think. I've won that way one, lost that way twice.

 

[Geezer Guy]

The only "fair" way to have a sudden-death tie-break point is for the serving team to only get one serve. At least that way the point would start off a bit more neutral.

 

[rasajadad]

In my league if you won the first set and are ahead in the 2nd, you win. If you won the 1st set and were trailing in the 2nd set, that counts as split sets and you have to play the tie-breaker to see who wins the match.