1. the ladder started with the fall semester on august 29th of 2006 and will finish on april 6th of 2007.
   

2. on the weekend of april 14-15 (tentative) a masters-like tournament will be played among the best-ranked players.
   

1. play in the tennis ladder by emailing tennis-people at cmu dot edu.
   

2. click to go to the cmu tennis ladder 2006/07
   

rules

1. a player may challenge any other player by email or phone call
   

2. results should be entered as soon as possible after the match and in the order they were played
   

3. players should agree on who will enter the score
   

ranking system

1. if a lower-ranked player beats a higher-ranked player, his/her points will be substituted by the loser’s plus 20 points
   

2. if a higher-ranked player beats a lower-ranked player, then he/she gets 20 points
   

3. the loser gets one point for each game won
   

rules of play

1. matches are played best of 3 sets with tie-break on all sets
   

2. both players may agree to play a super tie break (up to 10 with 2-point difference) instead of the third set - enter 7-6 for the third set
   

3. official rules are those of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) - ITFrules.PDF
   

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