tennis Mix-in
Tuesday 6pm-9pm
Saturday 2pm-6pm
Sunday 2pm-6pm
Our tennis mix-in sessions are the perfect way to play friendly, social tennis with just the right amount of competitive spirit. You simply turn up with your racket and play with the other members who are attending. There is also the opportunity for socialising before, during, and after the sessions.
Members
Mix-in sessions are aimed players of intermediate standard and above. Players are expected to be able to confidently serve and rally at a reasonable pace, and understand the rules of the game.
Courts
Clay courts 1, 2 & 3 are reserved for tennis mix-in, with Court 7 used as an overspill court on busy days.
Rules
Matches are played as doubles, with the first to 5 games being the winner.
A 7-point tie-break is played at 4 games all.
Games are played with the ‘silver point’ rule. On the second instance of deuce within a game, the next point is played as ‘sudden death’ with the receiving team deciding who should receive the serve.
On the first point of a player’s first service game of the session, the player may keep serving until they get a successful ‘first serve in’. This only applies once per session. Thereafter, double faults are played as normal.
Etiquette
The first four players to arrive at mix-in should start a doubles match, picking the most balanced pairing.
The next four players should play on the next court and so on. (Note: Please wait for the end of a point before walking across a court in play.)
Once a game has finished, players should look to see who is waiting by the clubhouse.
There should be some effort, particularly on cold days, to seek waiting players from inside the clubhouse, or from another court.
If four or more players are waiting, all four who have finished playing should come off court and queue for the next available court.
If fewer than four players are waiting, players just finishing playing should “spin” or otherwise decide who stays on court and who goes off. Generally, players leaving the court decide between them who stays and who leaves.
New arrivals join the back of the waiting queue (ie, they don’t automatically jump ahead of those who have already played, but who are in the queue for the next game).
The above expectations should be tempered with common sense. For example, if there are three women and two men waiting to play, it generally makes sense to have a mixed match. If two men are entering the court to replace a mixed match, it might be that either both of the men who have just played leave the court, or both women, but usually not one man and one woman. Overall, the goal is to have an even a game as possible whilst giving every player a fair turn.
“I love mix-in because I can just pop down to the club and play a couple of friendly sets. No planning required and I get to play with different people.”