ELYSIUM B/G-14 COMPASS CHALLENGE

The first matches will start on Friday night at 6 PM. The first matches on Saturday night will begin at 4 PM. All players are responsible for checking the draw and arriving at the tennis facility fifteen minutes before their scheduled match time to check in. Be sure to click on the "Draws" selection and write down your first match time. Please allow yourself ample time to get here if it is during a time of expected heavy traffic.

All participants will receive a tee shirt for playing in the tournament. There will be pizza and pop for all players at 6 PM on Saturday night for all participants of the tounament.

This tournament is being held at the Elysium Tennis Club, a brand new facility just west of Dublin and Muirfield Village, on the outskirts of Columbus. For mapping purposes, our address is: 7637 Commerce Place, Plain City, Ohio 43064.

Email is our preferred method of communicaiton. Email can be completed at any hour and leaves an electronic trail which clears up any questions of timing and whether messages were sent or receevied. Please direct emails to the email address listed above.

The Compass Challenge will use the best 2 out of 3 sets with regular scoring to determine the match winner. A match tie break will be used in lieu of a third set. If the players split the first two sets, the match tie break will be used to determine the winner of the match. The match tie break is the same as a set tie break, except for it will be the first player to win 10 points, by a margin of 2 points or more.

All 16 players selected to play in the compass draw, chosen from the total group of registrants, will play 4 matches, 2 on Friday night and 2 on Saturday night. If there are less than 16 players, not every one will get to play four matches, some players will only play three times due to the bye's involved

Per the USTA Midwest guidelines, the highest ranked 16 players, as of the most recent Midwest rankings, will be selected to participate in this tournament. Players that register for the tournament online, but are not among the 16 selected to play, will not be charged an entry fee.

For questions concerning the points earned with each match won, and other areas concerning the Midwest Points per Round and the ranking systems, please click on this link more info

This link is to the latest edition of the Midwest Junior Tennis Guidebook. It contains just about all the information any junior player or parent could want reagarding junior tennis in the Midwest Section and Ohio Valley District. It is a PDF file 48 pages long, but is worth down loading and committing to memory. more info