Cups Day

Cups Day 2025

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SCORING

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Regulation Scoring: 2 out of 3 Sets

The first player/team to win 2 sets wins the match. If each player/team wins a set, a
third deciding set is played. The sign-up and draw sheet will indicate whether your
category is regulation scoring or Pro 8.

Pro 8 Scoring: 8 Games
The first player/team to win 8 games with a margin of 2 or more games wins the match.
The sign-up and draw sheet will indicate whether your category is regulation scoring or
Pro 8.

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Tiebreaker - If score reaches 6-6 in any regulation set, or 8-8 in a Pro 8 set, a
tiebreaker is played. Please refer to Tennis Canada’s Rules of the Court for tiebreaker
regulations.

 

RULES

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Competitors must be full season or month of August members in order to sign
up.

• All players must follow the age requirements for each Cups category.

• Most finals are played on Cups Day: Saturday, August 23 (rain date Sunday, August 24).

• The Cups Committee will set time and location for all finals.

• Sign-up sheets are posted in the Beach Courts Clubhouse one week before the Civic Holiday weekend. Sign-up sheets are taken down at 5pm Sunday evening of Civic Holiday weekend. Draws are posted Monday of Civic Holiday weekend.

• Adult Sign-up Eligibility - Adults must be available to play for the two full
  weekends (Saturday and Sunday) preceding Cups Week. If you have other
  events to attend on these weekends, please do not sign up. Matches will be
  defaulted if not completed by posted ‘play-by’ dates.

• Junior Sign-up Eligibility - Juniors must be available to play for the three full
  weeks (Monday to Friday) preceding Cups Week. If players are going away to
  camp for a week during this time, please do not sign up. Matches will be
  defaulted if not completed by posted ‘play-by’ dates. U12 Junior Singles ‘A’
  Series and ‘B’ Series must be available to play daytime matches on the Wednesday prior to Cups Day. Finals for these matches will be played on this day.

• All competitors must be available to play Cups Day (and the rain date on
  Sunday). If one player is not available to play, that player will be defaulted. If both
  players are unavailable to play, the match will be recorded as ‘not played’.

• If only 3 players sign up for an event, a round-robin format will be used, with all 3
  matches to be completed by 5pm the Wednesday prior to Cups Day. A
  winner will be decided using head-to-head, win-loss (W-L) record and, if needed,
  total sets and games W-L.

• Game play must be consistent with Tennis Canada’s Rules of the Court; Please
  use this resource for any questions around rules during match play.

• Players may play in several events. Adults - You are allowed 4 sign-ups; you may
  not enter 5 events. Juniors - You are allowed 5 sign-ups; you may not enter 6
  events. Any competitor who has signed up in too many events will be held to
  their limit by the Cups Committee which will select the events for that participant.
  Event Combinations are limited to:

  • 1 singles event

  • 1 doubles event

  • 1 mixed doubles event*

  • 1 parent and child event
    *Spouse & Spouse and Mixed Doubles require different partners in order to play both.

• To identify which draw entrants qualify for, refer to the STC Birthday & Age
  Requirements document.  *For Cups 2025* an exception this year is being made for Junior players, birth years 2011 and 2012, to have the option to play in either the Junior or Intermediate doubles categories. For junior singles, competitors must sign up in their correct age category. Players signing up in older age groups will be placed in their correct age category. Partners will be assigned in Junior doubles events. Intermediate doubles events require partnership for sign-up. 

• All entrants (including juniors) are responsible for contacting opponents and
  arranging match dates, times and locations. Contact information is listed on each
  draw sheet. Cups Week finals are arranged by the Cups Committee.

• Each match must be played before the ‘play-by’ date.

• All matches must be played by 5pm Wednesday, August 20th.

• Winners are responsible for recording match scores on draw sheets posted
  in Beach Courts Clubhouse immediately following every match played.

• Players will be defaulted if delaying play until the Thursday or Friday before Cups
  Day. These 2 days are expressly reserved for rain dates.

• A 5-minute warm-up is permitted for each match. Please adhere closely to this
  rule as courts are at a premium during the weeks before Cups Day.

• If a medical timeout is required in any match, follow Tennis Canada guidelines:
  total time for evaluation and treatment is limited to a maximum of 15 minutes at
  which point play must resume.

• Players will use their own tennis balls for all matches. Please refer to Ball
  Exchange below.

• The Cups awards ceremony will take place at the Beach Courts immediately
  following the last match of the day. If players are still playing on courts 6 or 7,
  they will be required to move to court 3,4, or 5 in order to allow for ceremony
  setup.

• During Cups ceremony, trophies and medals will be presented, photos taken with
  trophy donors, then all trophies returned to the club. Trophies are not taken
  home. The STC engraves winners’ names before next summer.

• HANDSHAKE & BALL EXCHANGE - It is our Cups custom for players to shake hands
  at the conclusion of every junior and adult match. Tennis balls are also exchanged. Both
  players/teams should arrive at each match with a new, unopened can of balls. The
  match winner leaves with the unopened can, the used/open can is offered to the other
  team.

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STC COMPETITIVE PHILOSOPHY FOR ‘A’ AND ‘B’ SERIES’ AND FAMILY EVENTS​

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In all STC events, including Cups Day and Round Robins, we aim to uphold the club
philosophy of Family, Fun, & Fair Play and encourage everyone eligible to experience
and enjoy competition, no matter the skill level. Cups Day is not a provincially
sanctioned tournament but rather our club tournament founded on these principles.
When signing up for events, please honour the club philosophy. Stronger players
should play in our stronger events, which are the ‘A’ Series or Open events.

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In Cups, we have ‘A’ Series U12 Singles events and an ‘A’ Series Parent & Child event.
We also offer Adult Mixed Doubles which is our ‘A’ mixed event.

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‘B’ Series events were created for less skilled juniors and adults and includes categories
listed as ‘B’ Series as well as Spouse & Spouse. When an individual or pair gets to the
finals or wins a ‘B’ Series event, they are deemed ‘stronger’ and capable of competing
at a higher level. The next season these competitors should enter ‘A’ Series events.
Examples:

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• Spouse & Spouse finalists should move to a Mixed Doubles category the following year.

• Parent & Child ‘B’ finalists should move to ‘A’ Series the following year.

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Parent & Child events are intended as inclusive, family, mixed doubles categories for
only those not meeting the criteria of Mother & Daughter or Father & Son.

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Application of Rules will be done at discretion of the Cups Committee which will defer to
Tennis Canada’s Rules of the Court as sanctioned by the ITF.

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2025 CUPS TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE - Amy Luscombe, Anne Cox, Lee Myers​​