1. BUCS Team Tennis 2017-18 Harrison Fernandez Lewis
Higher Education Tennis Administrator

2. Overview My Role BUCS Team Tennis: League & Knockout Competitions
BUCS Team Tennis Timeline
Other BUCS Competitions
Your Role
What Next?
FAQs

3. My Role BUCS Tennis competition & event support
BUCS Tennis league & knockout competitions
BUCS National Premier League Super Weekends
BUCS National Team Finals
BUCS Individuals Qualifying & Finals
BUCS Tennis key contact
Matchday queries (e.g. rules & regulations, team sheets)
Tennis results submission
Key relationships: Tennis Foundation/LTA
Support TF in promotion of their HE tennis programme
Marketing & communications support for HE tennis
BUCS Tennis competition support
Support tennis captains with inputting BUCS results to the LTA.
Point of contact for any related queries including match queries e.g. rules & regulations, tennis results submissions

4. BUCS Team Tennis: Introduction
355 teams
102 Universities
Over 12,000 competitive matches per year

5. BUCS Team Tennis: League
League competition takes a pyramid structure (as shown in Men’s example on screen)
Top of pyramid is National League – 6 best 1st teams in the UK – who play every Wednesday plus two Super Weekends at centrally-hosted location
Premier league = North & South divide; promoted to National via play off between 2 top-placed 1st teams and bottom placed Nat league; automatic relegation to appropriate regional league in Tier 1
Tier 1 = regionally split leagues; promoted to Prem via play off with other regionally-appropriate teams
Tier 2 & below = regionally split leagues; automatic promotion & relegation between tiers

6. BUCS Team Tennis: Knockout
More conventional/familiar tennis tournament structure
Championship
All National League teams plus all 1st teams in North A & South A
Trophy
All 2nd teams in North A & South A plus all Tier 1 teams
Conference Cup
Split regionally
All teams from Tier 2 & below
Championship = all Nat League teams + all 1st Teams in Prem
Trophy = 2nd teams in Prem & all teams in Tier 1
Finals held University of Nottingham (Nottingham Tennis Centre) 21st March 2018
Conf Cup = regional competitions for all teams Tier 2 & below; finals held regionally

7. BUCS Team Tennis Timeline
Sept Captains’ details
BTM sign ups
29th Sept 2017 Scotland squad declaration deadline
4th Oct First BUCS matches (Scotland)
6th Oct 2017 All other teams squad declaration deadline
11th Oct 2017 All other teams first BUCS matches
Figure (%) captains details sent through  keep them coming!
BTM free for all University students, get them signed up ASAP before season start for LTA input
Squad declarations in before deadlines
Before first matches look out for from me with relevant attachments for throughout season

8. BUCS Team Tennis Timeline
Every Wednesday Results submission to University
Every Friday (Midday) Results submission to LTA
19th Oct – 23rd Oct 2017
Semester 1 Ranking Window
25th Jan – 29th Jan 2018 Semester 2 Ranking Window
21st March BUCS Big Wednesday
End of BUCS Season!!! Speak to AU for team entries
Every Wednesday submit results to AU ASAP after fixture for submission to BUCS; Every Friday submit results to LTA website – more info with step by step guide in before first fixture
Re-ranking windows for new players/squad changes
End of the 17/18 season speak to AU about team entries for following season (stay same/more/less)

9. Other BUCS Competitions
BUCS Individual Championships
Regional qualifiers
Centrally hosted finals (19th-22nd April 2018)
London Universities Sport Leagues (LUSL)
Exclusive to universities & colleges in London
(LUSL Coordinator)
BUCS Indys = singles & doubles competition; regional qualifiers; dates soon to be released; online sign ups  Indy Loughborough 19th-22nd April
LUSL = competitive tennis opportunities exclusive to London-based universities and colleges; all enquiries to JM

10. What Next? 2017-18 Tennis Team captain details Squad Declarations
Friday 29th September 2017 (Scottish teams in Tier 1 and below)
Friday 6th October 2017 (All Premier Tier [National + A] teams, and all English & Welsh teams in Tier 1 and below)
£250 fine & walkovers
BTM sign ups
Results submission support
Figure (%) captains details sent through  keep them coming!
Squad declarations in before deadlines otherwise fines & walkovers
Sign up players for BTM
Support captains with results submission

11. FAQs FAQ document https://www.bucs.org.uk/homepage.asp
BUCS main office:
List of FAQs will be sent before first fixture.
Anymore enquiries send to my /call BUCS office

12. Thank you & good luck for the 2017-18 season!!