League Rules & Procedures
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Platform Tennis (Thursday):
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Pickleball - (South - Monday):
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Pickleball - (North - Wednesday):
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Pickleball - (Indoor - Sunday):
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Purpose: To increase platform tennis & pickleball participation via formation of leagues dedicated to competition and camaraderie.
Locations: ACES Pickleball + Kitchen, Cincinnati Country Club, Elite Athletic Sports Complex, Glendale Lyceum, Losantiville Country Club, LTC at Lunken, Maketewah Country Club, Queen City Racquet Club, Ronnie Grandison Sports Academy
Current Leagues:
Participation: Leagues are open to male and female league players age 18+. Specific requirements are on registration pages.
Waiver & Release: All league participants are required to sign this before playing their first time: Waiver and Release. Additional waivers/releases specific to each venue may also be required.
Refund Policy: Refunds can be granted up until the first night of league play. No refunds after league play has started. If a player fails to play more than 2x in a session (due to injury or unanticipated regular conflict), a credit may be awarded for a future league. This credit has no cash redemption value.
Etiquette: All participants are required to adhere to the following:
1) All rules of host clubs. (Attached)
2) No court abuse.
Participants found to be in violation of these items may be expelled from the Platform Tennis League.
Time slots - Time choices are typically windows such as "Early" or "Late." This means you could start at any time during a window. So, an "Early: 4:00 to 6:00" means you could start at 4:00 or 6:00. It does not mean you will be playing from 4pm to 6pm.
Do not plan to leave early – if you cannot stay for the entire session, simply opt out for that week.
General Format: Players are assigned to courts with either four or five participants. A round-robin style format is played.
Four-to-a-court
Five-to-a-court
Awards: Players must play at least 24 sets/games to qualify for league awards. The overall league winner and the top female finisher receive free entry into all Platform Tennis Leagues for the next 12 months.
Late Cancellation: Legitimate reasons for cancelling after the schedule has been made: Emergency work travel, illness, injury, family emergency, unforeseeable events like car trouble, etc.
Tardiness: Be on time. Showing up about 10 minutes early is proper. If someone is more than 20 minutes late, and an even number (4 per court) has already been achieved – it is not necessary to include the tardy participant.
Inclement Weather: When bad weather is a probability – still plan your day to show up no matter what. If you do not receive an email and/or text indicating league has been cancelled for the evening, then just show up. Cancellation emails will go out 30+ minutes prior to start times when possible. NO PHONE CALLS. We will not cancel on the “threat” of bad weather. Platform tennis participants are expected to play platform tennis in moderate rain – but not in dangerous conditions (puddles, icy courts, lightning). Pickleball is not played in rain or on wet courts. Rain prior to pickleball start times has the potential to cause cancellations as well.
Make-Up Dates: If an excessive amount of league nights are canceled (3 or more) during a given session, make up dates at the end of the session/season may be added. Pickleball leagues are priced to account for three cancelled nights per 12-week session due to weather. Platform tennis cancelations are rare as the sport is played in most weather conditions.
When all sets are not completed
Contact Information Requirement: All participants must provide the league administrator with an active email and mobile phone. The email & mobile phone information may be available to others in the league.
Payment Deadline: Prepayment required. All fees are due by deadlines stated on registration pages.
Dress Codes at Various Clubs
Cincinnati Country Club
Must wear ALL WHITE CLOTHING - When playing on the clay or hard tennis courts, all tennis and pickleball players are required to wear white tennis attire (minimal color trim is acceptable). Headwear and accessories may be of any color. Non-white outerwear (tennis appropriate warm-up attire) is permitted. Players must wear flat, non-marking, rubber-soled shoes without heels. There is no dress code for the platform tennis courts, but please wear proper shoes to avoid damaging the courts or causing injury.
All Clubs
Though some "country club" dress codes may be relaxed for our leagues, some elements need to be followed:
Failure to follow these guidelines may result in exclusion from participation for the evening.
Glendale Lyceum Rules and Policy
1. All play starts at 5:30PM and stops at 10PM. All players must be out of the Paddle Hut no later than 11PM (or earlier).
2. Make sure Paddle Hut and courts are clean of cans, bottles and other brought items before you leave.
3. Make sure the court lights and inside the Paddle Tennis Hut are off when you leave.
4. The use of the Paddle Tennis Hut refrigerator is prohibited. Must bring your own coolers for your beverages. The water cooler will be accessible inside the Paddle Tennis Hut.
5. Players who joined only the Thursday night league are not allowed to play any other nights unless accompanied by a Lyceum Paddle member! (Lyceum Paddle members can only bring one guest.) Rules for non-member guests will be published to paddle members only.
6. Roster sheet of all Thursday night players must be submitted to the Lyceum Sports Director.
7. No tolerance policy for fighting or abuse to the courts or hut. This could lead to termination of the Thursday night league.
8. Please notify the Lyceum or Sports Director for any schedule changes. (7-day advance notice is required).
9. Please notify the Lyceum or Sports Director of any court or facility issues.
10. Please be aware that parking behind the paddle courts will be required occasionally. This allows parking spaces for events held in the main Lyceum building. An email will be sent in advance and please notify the Thursday Night Players prior to that night!
Note: Items 6, 8, 9 & 10 apply primarily to League Administrator (Doug Jones).
Locations: ACES Pickleball + Kitchen, Cincinnati Country Club, Elite Athletic Sports Complex, Glendale Lyceum, Losantiville Country Club, LTC at Lunken, Maketewah Country Club, Queen City Racquet Club, Ronnie Grandison Sports Academy
Current Leagues:
- Platform Tennis Spring/Summer
- Session #1: 11 weeks
- Starts April 13
- Ends June 29
- Off July 6
- Session #2: 11 weeks
- Starts July 13
- Ends September 28
- Session #1: 11 weeks
- Pickleball Spring/Summer (South)
- Session #1: 12 weeks
- Starts April 10
- Ends July 10
- Off May 29 & July 3
- Session #2: 12 weeks
- Starts July 17
- Ends October 9
- Off September 4
- Session #1: 12 weeks
- Pickleball Spring/Summer (North)
- Session #1: 12 weeks
- Starts April 12
- Ends June 28
- Off July 5
- Session #2: 12 weeks
- Starts July 12
- Ends September 27
- Session #1: 12 weeks
- Pickleball Indoor
- Session #1: 8 weeks
- Starts September 10
- Ends October 29
- Session #2: 11 weeks
- Starts November 5
- Ends January 28
- Off December 24 & 31
- Session #3: 12 weeks
- Starts February 4
- Ends April 28
- Off February 11
- Session #4: 6 weeks of play
- Starts February 18
- Ends March 31
- Off March 3
- Session #1: 8 weeks
Participation: Leagues are open to male and female league players age 18+. Specific requirements are on registration pages.
Waiver & Release: All league participants are required to sign this before playing their first time: Waiver and Release. Additional waivers/releases specific to each venue may also be required.
Refund Policy: Refunds can be granted up until the first night of league play. No refunds after league play has started. If a player fails to play more than 2x in a session (due to injury or unanticipated regular conflict), a credit may be awarded for a future league. This credit has no cash redemption value.
Etiquette: All participants are required to adhere to the following:
1) All rules of host clubs. (Attached)
2) No court abuse.
- Do not hit court, screens, fences or nets in anger or for any other reason outside of normal point play.
- Do not climb or use screens to propel yourself into shots.
- Do not climb over nets.
- No intentional headhunting (platform tennis).
- No cussing or screaming at partners or opponents.
- No cheating, tanking or extended arguing.
Participants found to be in violation of these items may be expelled from the Platform Tennis League.
Time slots - Time choices are typically windows such as "Early" or "Late." This means you could start at any time during a window. So, an "Early: 4:00 to 6:00" means you could start at 4:00 or 6:00. It does not mean you will be playing from 4pm to 6pm.
Do not plan to leave early – if you cannot stay for the entire session, simply opt out for that week.
General Format: Players are assigned to courts with either four or five participants. A round-robin style format is played.
Four-to-a-court
- Each player plays one “official” set or game with each other player on the court as a partner.
- 3 total "official sets or games are played (complete rotation 2x for pickleball - 6 games).
- Play additional "unofficial" sets or games until time slot is over. These do not count for the standings.
Five-to-a-court
- A rotation schedule will be given to you at the beginning of the night. Use this to determine partners.
- Each player will play 4 “official” sets or games.
- Each player will sit out one rotation.
Awards: Players must play at least 24 sets/games to qualify for league awards. The overall league winner and the top female finisher receive free entry into all Platform Tennis Leagues for the next 12 months.
Late Cancellation: Legitimate reasons for cancelling after the schedule has been made: Emergency work travel, illness, injury, family emergency, unforeseeable events like car trouble, etc.
Tardiness: Be on time. Showing up about 10 minutes early is proper. If someone is more than 20 minutes late, and an even number (4 per court) has already been achieved – it is not necessary to include the tardy participant.
Inclement Weather: When bad weather is a probability – still plan your day to show up no matter what. If you do not receive an email and/or text indicating league has been cancelled for the evening, then just show up. Cancellation emails will go out 30+ minutes prior to start times when possible. NO PHONE CALLS. We will not cancel on the “threat” of bad weather. Platform tennis participants are expected to play platform tennis in moderate rain – but not in dangerous conditions (puddles, icy courts, lightning). Pickleball is not played in rain or on wet courts. Rain prior to pickleball start times has the potential to cause cancellations as well.
Make-Up Dates: If an excessive amount of league nights are canceled (3 or more) during a given session, make up dates at the end of the session/season may be added. Pickleball leagues are priced to account for three cancelled nights per 12-week session due to weather. Platform tennis cancelations are rare as the sport is played in most weather conditions.
When all sets are not completed
- Due to weather interruption: Only the completed sets/games count.
- Due to court/lighting malfunction: Only the completed sets/games count.
- Due to injury: The team without injury wins a set/game that was in progress or was immediately up next in the rotation if player is unable to start the next set/game. Any other sets/games do not count.
- Due to time constraints: All matches have set time slots. They begin with the start time listed in the weekly schedule and end with the start time of the next match on that same court.
- Platform Tennis: If a group is close to finishing, within 5 minutes of next start time, go ahead and finish. Otherwise, if one of the teams is ahead by 2 or more games at the time deadline that team wins the set. If not, play a regular tiebreaker to decide the winner. If you anticipate running out of time, start playing no-ad scoring & tiebreaker at 5-5.
- Pickleball: If the court has 5 players and time is an issue - count all of the completed games. The incomplete games do not count. If a game is at least 50% complete at the time deadline (leading team has at least 8 in 15-point game), go ahead and finish the game. If the court has 4 players - count all of the completed games. Finish any game running up against the deadline where leading team has at least 6 points. The games that are not completed will have the game from the first rotation (with the same matchup) count double.
Contact Information Requirement: All participants must provide the league administrator with an active email and mobile phone. The email & mobile phone information may be available to others in the league.
Payment Deadline: Prepayment required. All fees are due by deadlines stated on registration pages.
Dress Codes at Various Clubs
Cincinnati Country Club
Must wear ALL WHITE CLOTHING - When playing on the clay or hard tennis courts, all tennis and pickleball players are required to wear white tennis attire (minimal color trim is acceptable). Headwear and accessories may be of any color. Non-white outerwear (tennis appropriate warm-up attire) is permitted. Players must wear flat, non-marking, rubber-soled shoes without heels. There is no dress code for the platform tennis courts, but please wear proper shoes to avoid damaging the courts or causing injury.
All Clubs
Though some "country club" dress codes may be relaxed for our leagues, some elements need to be followed:
- Flat, non-marking shoes only. Shoes made for tennis or other racket sports are best.
- No denim shorts or jeans.
- No tank tops for men.
Failure to follow these guidelines may result in exclusion from participation for the evening.
Glendale Lyceum Rules and Policy
1. All play starts at 5:30PM and stops at 10PM. All players must be out of the Paddle Hut no later than 11PM (or earlier).
2. Make sure Paddle Hut and courts are clean of cans, bottles and other brought items before you leave.
3. Make sure the court lights and inside the Paddle Tennis Hut are off when you leave.
4. The use of the Paddle Tennis Hut refrigerator is prohibited. Must bring your own coolers for your beverages. The water cooler will be accessible inside the Paddle Tennis Hut.
5. Players who joined only the Thursday night league are not allowed to play any other nights unless accompanied by a Lyceum Paddle member! (Lyceum Paddle members can only bring one guest.) Rules for non-member guests will be published to paddle members only.
6. Roster sheet of all Thursday night players must be submitted to the Lyceum Sports Director.
7. No tolerance policy for fighting or abuse to the courts or hut. This could lead to termination of the Thursday night league.
8. Please notify the Lyceum or Sports Director for any schedule changes. (7-day advance notice is required).
9. Please notify the Lyceum or Sports Director of any court or facility issues.
10. Please be aware that parking behind the paddle courts will be required occasionally. This allows parking spaces for events held in the main Lyceum building. An email will be sent in advance and please notify the Thursday Night Players prior to that night!
Note: Items 6, 8, 9 & 10 apply primarily to League Administrator (Doug Jones).