Competitive Team

The CPP Tennis Club competitive team competes at official Tennis on Campus tournaments — mostly in-state but some are out-of-state. Go to “Slice of Tennis” to see our competitive team in action!

Join our competitive team! All information about tryouts is below, along with what our competitive team does, our updated roster, mandatory practice schedule, and highlights.

Our team at 2024 TOC Socal Sectionals!

  • Our competition team plays in tournaments organized by (and registered through) Tennis on Campus, a club college tennis organization through USTA. This means club college tournaments are official and count towards UTR.

    We usually travel within California, only going out of state for 1-2 tournaments a year (our team competed in Texas last year). Our travel funds depend on school funding and fundraising. Help our club competitive team by donating here.

    Once a year (in February), we compete in the TOC Southern California Sectionals, where the top 5 teams compete in the TOC Nationals. We have gone to Nationals once in our school’s history, in Spring 2023. Read more about it here.

    Throughout the year, we practice as a collective team, running drills, match play, and doing strength/agility conditioning. On weekends, we compete at tournaments hosted by other club teams; in the past, we’ve gone to UCSB, Pepperdine, Claremont Colleges, and UCI. At these tournaments, we play against many other local club teams. Ever year, our goal is to improve our skills and perform well at Sectionals so that we can go to Nationals and compete at the national level.

  • TOC Club Tennis follows the World Team Tennis format. Click here to view the rules and scoresheet.

    1 men’s singles, 1 women’s singles

    1 men’s doubles, 1 women’s doubles

    1 mixed doubles

  • Our roster will be posted after tryouts. Tryout information can be found below.

  • Competitive team members are required to go to Friday practices 12-2pm

  • The competitive team takes sportsmanship very seriously. We do not tolerate immature behavior on or off the court. If you damage the court, throw a tantrum, yell at opponents, or do anything that could hurt the integrity of our club or our members, we will revoke your membership and ban you from club events.

Our club is unlike many other college tennis clubs because we offer both recreational events as well as competitive events. Our general membership is open to anyone, but to be on our competitive team (aka “collegiate club tennis”) you must tryout.

Competitive team tryouts are twice a year: once in the beginning of Fall semester, once in the beginning of Spring semester.

Tryout

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Step 1: Prepare

You must be a member to tryout. Complete everything in “How to Join”

  • Join our Discord to keep in touch with other members and our board. Follow our Instagram here.

  • Click here to fill out the tryout form

Step 2: Tryouts

Competitive team tryouts will be held on Friday September 13th 2-6pm

(tryout finals held on Fri Sept 20th 12-3pm, invite only)

You will not be allowed to tryout if you have not completed everything in “How to Join”. We will be checking your member status at check-in

  • Show up on time with a racket and proper attire (non-marking tennis shoes, athletic wear, hat, etc). Wear sunscreen and bring a full water bottle.

  • Fri 13th Sept 2-6pm

    At tryouts, board will assess your projected skill level. Our board will carefully watch your gameplay, strategy, sportsmanship, and adaptability. Depending on turnout, board might send people home every hour based on performance. We will be taking notes.

    2-3pm check in, warm up, introducing board

    3-4pm drills (groundstrokes, volleys, serves)

    4-5pm games (doubles and singles games, full court)

    5-5:30pm fast fours (short games)

    5:30-6pm final remarks and callbacks

  • We are not only looking at skill. We are assessing your sportsmanship and character on court to see if you are fit to represent our team, club, and school. The people you are competing with are your fellow teammates — in tournaments, we play against fellow college students. We expect fairness, enthusiasm, and respect on and off the court.

  • Our club does not tolerate immature behavior on or off the court. If you damage the court, throw a tantrum, yell at your opponent, or do anything that could hurt the integrity of our club and our members, we will revoke your membership.