Tuesday, January 22, 2013

2013 ITA Rule Changes


Dual Matches:

Doubles will be stopped when the Doubles Team Point has been decided.

Experimental changes for ALL non-conference dual matches through the ITA National Team Indoors –unless both coaches agree otherwise

No-add scoring in doubles only.  (Proper verbiage for announcing deciding point is “Deuce, Deciding Point, Receiver's choice")

Doubles tie-break will be played at 7-all

Effective Date for Men – January 1 through February 18, 2013
Effective Date for Women – January 1 through February 11, 2013

Men’s Medical Timeout  (MTO) Changes:

MTO will result in Point Penalty AND be limited to maximum of 3 minutes

Women’s Bathroom Break Changes:

ONE bathroom break authorized on changeover or set break

May have additional bathroom breaks IF BOTH coaches agree beforehand

Returning late will result in time violation penalties (Warning, Point, Point…)

2 comments:

Yosemite Sam said...

How many of these rule changes can be attributed to the elite cheating program at Baylor?

Anonymous said...

What makes you think that Baylor is cheating?