Adding AA Juniors
Will adding a AA Junior player to your adult roster bring your team level up?
Nicole Jennings, Mixed Doubles League Vice President
The answer is YES! Adding a junior AA player to your adult roster during registration, regardless of the assigned level of the team, will automatically level your team at AA. The ALTA system would normally use the league information for team placement document to average the top 10 players on your team when leveling occurs. However, a AA junior on your roster will bypass that 10-player calculation and level a team at AA even if the junior player will turn 18 before the first match play date of the season since the season starts the day schedules are released.
If you refer to the Adult Captains Handbook, page 10, number 2 states: “If you are adding a qualified junior to a AA roster, refer to the ‘Junior Player Eligibility Guidelines for Adult League Play’ (My Resources>ALTA Documents>ALTA Rules).” In that document, it states “Qualified junior players may only be included on or added to AA rosters. If a junior player is added to an A level roster, that team would be leveled at AA.”
Where can we play?
We just found out that our home courts are not available for our Junior League matches due to a tournament. Does the home team have the option to find alternative courts before asking the visiting team to provide courts?
Kim Freeman, Junior Leagues Vice President
According to the Junior Rules, IV. Dual Meets, L: “If, for any unforeseen circumstance, the home team is unable to provide its home courts for any scheduled dual meet, the visiting team has the first option of providing its home courts. The host team is considered the home team. If the visiting team does not elect to provide its home courts, the responsibility reverts to the home team which must provide courts within the approved ALTA area at the scheduled time. If alternate courts cannot be found, the team managers must contact their coordinator.”
This rule applies to the adult leagues as well. See Adult Rules, IV. Dual Meets, J.
Are we sandbaggers?
My team recently lost points due to sandbagging. Would you please explain this rule and how I can prevent losing points in a future match?
Diane Royston, Sunday Women’s League Vice President
This information is from the Captain’s Handbook, page 24, “PLAYER MOVEMENT AND SANDBAGGING RULES: 3. Sandbagging occurs when a winning pair is moved down, and a losing pair is moved up.
This rule applies even if the pair has only played once (together). Winning and losing are determined by the results of matches played to date:
- A pair that has won more times than it has lost is a winning pair.
- A pair that has lost more times than it has won is a losing pair.
- A pair that has won as many matches as it has lost has no winning or losing record.
- A pair that has not yet played together during the regular season has no record.”
To avoid a sandbagging violation, make sure you understand points above or contact your coordinator.
