Our Guarantee To You
When you play Ultimate Tennis, you are playing the "Original Singles Flex League". Our rules, rating system, scoring system and playoff system have nearly two decades of non stop testing and refinement to produce the league you play in today. Every aspect of the league is original in design.
In 1990 we pioneered the "flexible league format". We created a complete system that delivered convenient, competitive matches and a level of service that recreational tennis players had never seen before. Then, in 1998, we launched the web version of our league. This provided a convenient interface, dynamic schedules and a mechanism for great web site reporting.
Ultimate Tennis is the only league in the country that provides the combination of key components listed below. As you read the list, ask yourself how important each of these items are to you. Does your current league provide these features?
- Competitive matches
- Convenient drive times
- Flexible scheduling
- Affordable (you don't have to pay a yearly membership fee or join a club)
- Accurate rating system
- Exciting point scoring system
- Championship playoff tournament
- Excellent customer service
- Dynamic website
- Instant reporting of stats and standings
- Great prizes
- A philosophy of treating the recreational player like a professional
Due to our leadership success and popularity, Ultimate Tennis has now been copied by over 10 start-up companies and most recently the USTA. If you see a similar service being advertised, beware, it's not the same! Many of these knock-off leagues have grossly plagiarized our material in an attempt to fool you into thinking they have created these features. Most have little or no experience in league administration and make false claims about the quality of service they can deliver. It's obvious they are attempting to copy the leader, but how many of them are genuinely concerned about delivering you a quality league service?
So what's the difference between the original and the imitators?
- 17 years of administrative experience and league design
- A proven system that delivers truly competitive matches
- 50% shorter average drive times
- Twice as many skill levels as other leagues
- Evenly matched opponents
- Accurate ratings
- A security system to eliminate sandbaggers
- A verification system for rating new members
- Excellent customer service
- A proven track record of delivering what we promise
- The highest level of customer satisfaction in the industry
How to spot an imitator
- Read their rules, rating system, point system and menus. If they look and sound the same, it's because they have copied our system. They call it visionary, we call it plagiarism.
- Players who have tried the other leagues tell us that their web sites routinely crash, players compete at the wrong level, drive times are horrendous, sandbaggers are everywhere, schedules are inadequate, members don't complete their matches, you can't reach anyone in customer service, all of which results in a big waste of time and money.
There is far more to "quality tennis" than just creating an online tennis league. Be sure to ask these important questions before you register.
- How many years have they been in business?
- Is the league run by a real company or is it really just made up of a computer programmer and a marketing guy?
- Does their management really understand tennis or did their expertise come from the fact that they have played in a 3.5 league.
- How many yearly members are in their league? Notice, this is different than the number of people who may have registered on their web site which is inflated number the imitators like to quote.
- How many skill levels do they offer? It may look like they have a lot of players at your level if they are only offering 4 skill levels.
- Do they offer a championship playoff tournament? Playoff draws don't lie. If they don't have big draws, their league doesn't really have the members they claim.
It's easy to list the same features we offer, it's something different to actually provide a proven service that really works. So before you let one of our competitors tell you they came up with something unique, we just want you to know the REAL story. We're serious about providing you with high quality professionally organized tennis. If you like our philosophy, we would appreciate your support the next time you select your league.
Scott Nunn
President
Ultimate Tennis