Orange Ball Tournament and Training Guidelines
Orange Ball Tournament and Training Guidelines These are the general guidelines to running a training and a tournament for the Orange Ball Tournaments: 1.
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45-90 minutes of a training at the beginning of the event. This should be run with at le ast one coach per 6-8 players. The coach is often the director of the tournament. The theme should be more general topics and strategy over stroke mechanics. The tournament should be short sets (to 4) or timed matches. Timed matches need to be at least 20 minutes in length. Scoring should be no-ad games. Draws will be non-elimination (compass draw or round robin). You will need to have a champion to allow for them to advance to green ball. However, you will want each person to get 3-6 “matches” per tournament. Draws may be separated boys and girls or combined to coed. Coed is suggested any time you have 4 or less in one division. A big part of the training portion of the event is to get the kids comfortable before playing a tournament. Often many of them are playing their first events, so as a coach on the court, make them feel good about being there. Parents have all commented how they like the training portion as it adds value to the event. Also they know that their child is getting a lot of balls hit during the training which sometimes in this level other kids have trouble even serving to get points started.
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45-90 minutes of a training at the beginning of the event. This should be run with at le ast one coach per 6-8 players. The coach is often the director of the tournament. The theme should be more general topics and strategy over stroke mechanics. The tournament should be short sets (to 4) or timed matches. Timed matches need to be at least 20 minutes in length. Scoring should be no-ad games. Draws will be non-elimination (compass draw or round robin). You will need to have a champion to allow for them to advance to green ball. However, you will want each person to get 3-6 “matches” per tournament. Draws may be separated boys and girls or combined to coed. Coed is suggested any time you have 4 or less in one division. A big part of the training portion of the event is to get the kids comfortable before playing a tournament. Often many of them are playing their first events, so as a coach on the court, make them feel good about being there. Parents have all commented how they like the training portion as it adds value to the event. Also they know that their child is getting a lot of balls hit during the training which sometimes in this level other kids have trouble even serving to get points started.
