Girls’ Tennis

Updated: 12-8-16

I.Levels of Competition

A. Varsity

B.Junior Varsity

II. Schedule

  1. Eachschool plays single round robin schedule. Varsity match format is four singles players and three doubles teams with no crossovers. Players play the best two of three sets with "add" scoring used. The J.V. format is four singles players and three doubles teams with no crossovers, if possible. Players play an 8 game pro-set with tiebreaker played at 7-7 using "no-add" scoring.
  1. The Badger Conference Tournament is played at Nielsen Stadium in Madison after completion of the dual meet season. A Junior Varsity Tournament will be held on Saturday before the Conference Varsity Tournament. Varsity format is four singles players and three doubles teams with matches on the "championship" side of the bracket playing best two of three sets with "add" scoring. The last place bracket at the Conference meet will be eliminated. The Badger Conference J.V. tournament format is four singles and three doubles teams.
  1. The Badger North (seven teams) will be made up of the following teams: Baraboo, Beaver Dam, DeForest, Portage, Sauk Prairie, Reedsburg and Waunakee. Badger South (eight teams) will be Madison Edgewood, Fort Atkinson (2008), Milton (2008), Monona Grove, Monroe, Oregon, Stoughton, and Waterown (2017). The individual divisions will play round robin dual meets in their own division.
  1. **Note: Beginning with the 2017 season only one crossover match will be played at the beginning of the season with matchups determined by the previous season’s standings (Beaver Dam and Watertown will play each other the first year in the crossover). (8-26-16)
  1. Determining North & South Conference Champions

1. 1 point for each conference match win within your division.

2. 1 Point for each division team a school places above in the North-South Conference Tournament.

Example: Highest placement team in North gets 7 points added to dual total and highest placement team in South gets 8 points added to dual total.

In case of ties: In conference tournament, team with most champions will place above the other if still tied, team with most 2nd places above other, etc.

  1. This is the alphabetic list of the rotation of Conference Tournament meet hosts: (Host school will do both boys and girls)

I. Conference Tournament Host JV Conf. Host Rotation

2016-2017 – Waunakee2016-17 - (N) Portage (S) Edgewood

2017-2018 – Baraboo2017-18 - (N) Reedsburg (S) Ft. Atkinson

2018-2019 – Beaver Dam2018-19 - (N) Sauk Prairie (S) Milton

2019-2020 – DeForest2019-20 - (N) Waunakee (S) Monona Gr.

2020-2021 – Edgewood2020-21 - (N) Baraboo (S) Monroe

2021-2022 – Fort Atkinson2021-22 - (N) Beaver Dam (S) Oregon

2022-2023 – Milton2022-23 - (N) DeForest (S) Stoughton

2023-2024 – Monona Grove2023-24 - (N) Portage (S) Watertown

2024-2025 – Monroe2024-25 - (N) Reedsburg (S) Edgewood

2025-2026 – Oregon2025-26 - (N) Sauk Prairie (S) Ft. Atkinson

2026-2027 – Portage2026-27 - (N) Waunakee (S) Milton

2027-2028 – Reedsburg2027-28 - (N) Baraboo (S) Monona Grove

**South JV Conference played at Stoughton.

  1. Conference matches are to begin at 4:15 p.m (11/16/12)
  1. Contest Procedure

A. Warm up - Ten minute warm up.

B.Contest Management

1. Host school will furnish tennis balls

2. Players shall call their own matches; however a player may request line judges.

3. If some conference schools cannot play a full J.V. team (10 players or more), it is expected that those schools will contact their opponents with the number of J.V. players available.

4. All conference dual matches are to be completed prior to the seeding meeting for the Conference Tournament.

5. Coaching is permitted in accordance with W.H.S.T.A. policy.

6.An injury timeout will be enforced using the USTA rulebook and common sense.

IV. The Conference Tournament

A.The conference tournament will be held to determine individual champions and team champion of the North and South. It will be a single elimination tournament until the semi-finals. Losers of the semi-finals will play for third place. (**Note: For the first round of the Badger Conference Tournament (the first 42 matches), if a third set is necessary, a super tie-breaker will be played instead of a full set (11/10/11).

The conference commissioner will sign a yearly contract with the UW Nielsen Tennis facility which will set the dates for the Girls’ and Boys’ tournament. Once the commissioner receives the billing for the tournaments he will forward this to the host school Athletic Director who will pay the bill from the money they received from the conference for hosting the tournament. UW Nielsen contact supervisor: Karen Lux (608) 262 - 9565

B.Two rounds of matches will be hosted on each day of the conference tournament.

C.Seeding of single and double matches of the Conference Tournament will be determined at the coaches meeting to be held on Wednesday the week of the tournament. 1.In each part, 4 players/doubles teams may be seeded and it is possible to place a 5th player/doubles team

2. When seeding the Conference Tournament, consider the following:

First seeding criteria- look at conference head-head matches when players have similar records.

3. Second seeding criteria—look at matches versus common non-conf opponents.

D. Beginning in 2016, the South Badger Conf. JV Tennis Tournament will be held at the Stoughton HS courts. (11/11/15)

V. Awards

A. A trophy is awarded to the Conference Champion(s).

B. Medals are awarded to the top four place winners in the conference tournament.

VI. Meetings

The conference coaches' tennis meeting is held on the Wednesday evening prior to the Conference Tournament. The time and site of the meeting be mutually agreed upon.