Points and ties

The club picks one of two systems — they work the same in tournaments and leagues. You see which one applies in the category's Rules section: in a tournament in the Table points row, in a league in the Scoring system row. In the table below: the winner's and the loser's points.

• Walkover (a match not played, awarded to one side) counts as a win to love, e.g. 6:0 6:0 — in the set and game balance too.
• Retirement (a match stopped, e.g. by an injury): the opponent of the player who stopped wins. The interrupted set and the sets not played go to the opponent.
• League — points for a played match. The club can add a few points (e.g. 0.5) for every match played, including one ended by a retirement. Both players get them. A walkover gives none.

This applies to a Round robin tournament, the groups of Groups + knockout and the group tables of every league round. On equal points the order is decided by, in turn:

Whoever is still level starts over. If the matches between the tied players separate only some of them, those still level are compared again — using only the matches among themselves. Two players are then decided by their own match. This is how the tennis rules (ITF) count.

Two players who have not played each other yet go straight to the set balance of the whole group.

When three or more players are tied, a Mini-league · places … link appears under the table — it shows the matches between them and what decided.

The two best players of every group go on to the knockout (the bracket). With 3, 5, 6 or 7 groups the club can let third places advance too:

The best third places are picked by the Third-place ranking — a table under the groups (the 3rd pill), where the Advances to the bracket zone shows who goes through. With 5 groups every third place advances, so there is no ranking. The order is decided by, in turn:

1. Points.
2. Set balance.
3. Game balance.
4. Seeding — the higher seed; unseeded players last.
5. Entry order — whoever entered first ranks higher.

• Until every group has finished, the third-place ranking is provisional.
• The best third place takes the first bracket spot reserved for third places, the second takes the second, and so on. If that would pit a player against the winner of their own group in the first round, the third places swap spots.

A league season is played in rounds. After each round you get points for the round, and the overall ranking adds them up. The current round counts live — the ranking changes with every result entered. Your place in the round table also decides promotion and relegation between groups.

• Average — your points in the round table divided by the number of your matches with a result. A lost walkover counts too (for 0 pts), while an unplayed match does not lower the average.
• Group premium — a fixed number of points per round in a given group; usually bigger in a higher league.
• Top-3 bonus — for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the group table you get a percentage of the average plus the premium, e.g. 15%, 10% and 5%.

The club can also set an unplayed match to lower the average like a match worth 0 pts, and the premium to be paid in parts — for every match played or won by walkover.

This league's values are in the Rules section: Points for a played match, League premiums (or Group premiums), Top-3 bonus, Freeze compensation and Weakest round dropped.

• A frozen round — instead of points you get compensation: a percentage of your average result from the rounds you played (how much — in the Rules). When you have nobody to play in the round — 100%.
• Weakest round dropped — if the league uses it: once at least two rounds have closed, your weakest round does not count. A round you did not take part in counts as 0.
• Click your points in the league Ranking to see them round by round.

What counts is the total shown on the screen (two decimal places). On an equal total the order is decided by, in turn:

1. More wins in the matches between the tied players — from the whole season, every round and group.
2. Set balance in those matches. Whoever is still level is compared the same way again — using only the matches among themselves.
3. More wins in the whole season.
4. Balance of wins and losses in the season.
5. More matches with a result in the season.
6. A draw — made once, when the players sign up for the league, so between the same two players it always falls the same way.

Play-off matches do not count towards the overall ranking.

• For your place in each tournament of the series you get points from the Points table on the series page. Not taking part gives 0 pts. The points appear once the tournament's category has finished.
• The club can drop each player's weakest result — once at least two tournaments of the category have finished. A dropped result is crossed out.

On equal points the order is decided by, in turn:

1. Matches between the tied players across the series. Two players: more wins in their matches (if they played each other). Three or more: a small table — wins, set balance, game balance (if each played each). Whoever is still level starts over between themselves only.
2. Better places in the series' tournaments: first each player's best place, then the second best, and so on. With the same places, whoever played more tournaments ranks higher.
3. Set balance in all matches of the series.
4. Game balance in all matches of the series.
5. A shared place.

Walkovers do not count when Grand Prix ties are broken. The series page describes the order too, in How the order is decided.