An explanation of handicaps in tennis

Click here to read a paper on handicaps in tennis that goes on to explain how Tennis Wollongong uses handicaps and how they are determined and adjusted by the committee.

The document available here shows a summary of the results obtained by the players in the current (or previous) Saturday mixed competition. It is a printout of a spreadsheet that contains information about the results obtained by the players who have played at least 1 match in the current competition, shown in various columns. The columns are: TW# -> Tennis Wollongong id of the player; Name -> of the player; sts -> number of sets played; hcp -> handicap; delhc -> shows how far the handicap should be adjusted to get the results expected using the existing handicap, if that is the only handicap changed; cpt# computer number of player in team; swon -> sets won; slost -> sets lost; gwon -> games won; glost -> games lost; home_ct -> Team name; mtch -> number of matches played; 6to5 -> number of 6-5 sets won; 5to6 -> number of 6-5 sets lost; ge -> gender; fn -> financial status; Dname -> name of division. This document will be updated throughout the competition with the date of output on the bottom of each page.

Saturday afternoon mixed doubles competition