The Club Spring Challenge

Registration Dates

• Open: 10/19/22
• Closed: 04/07/23

Tournament Dates

• Starts: 04/14/23
• Ends: 04/16/23

Cancellation Dates

• Cancellation Deadline: 04/07/23

Location

The Club at The Township
151 Southlake Ave
Ridgeland, MS 39157

Registration

• Player's age as of: 12/31/23
• Minimum Age of Player: 0
• Final Registration Deadline: 04/07/23
• Membership required as of: 04/17/23
• Tournament Sanctioning: Sanctioned - NR
• Registration - $65.00
• Registration includes: T-Shirt
• When registering online, online waiver signature is used.

Additional Info

• Surface: Concrete
• Net: Permanent, Temporary
• Outdoor: Y

Tournament Description

The Township in Ridgeland is a fantastic place for a tournament with great hotels and restaurants in walking distance from The Club, one of Mississippi's finest fitness, swim and racquets clubs. Aged and rated divisions. We will have women’s doubles and men’s singles Friday, women’s singles and men’s doubles Saturday, and mixed doubles Sunday. The tournament ball is the brand new Pro Penn 40, which is very similar to the Franklin X-40.

Competition Events

Event Player List

Food

Fruit & snacks will be provided for players.

Saturday evening player party includes dinner, music and social play.

Several restaurants within walking distance.

Lodging / Accommodations

AC Marriott (right next to The Club), one of the Jackson area's newest and nicest hotels. 

$129/night (book by 3/31)

https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1674681821459&key=GRP&app=resvlink 

Other hotel options:

https://www.visitridgeland.com/ms-pickleball-2023/ 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellation Policy

This is an outdoor tournament.  There is no indoor back up.  If weather is a factor, we will do all we can to play matches.  There are no refunds or make up days if the tournament is impacted by weather.  

• Full refund (less any non-refundable payment charges) if withdrawal is completed by April 14.
• Wait listed ONLY players will not be charged a processing fee and may remain on the wait list throughout the duration of the tournament.
• All cancellations after April 7 will be considered for credit for one of our future tournaments.
• Please send your withdrawal/refund request to Jennifer Pugh at kuari@comcast.net .

PARTNER CHANGE POLICY

• Any registered player may change partners with a replacement if the regsitered partner can't play. The replacement may cause you to play in a different age or skill level. 
• The replacement must be able to play in the same skill/age group that you are scheduled to play. Please note that when looking for a replacement, players may play down in age and up in skill. 
• Replacements need to be known and communicated to the tournament director by 3 pm the day before you are scheduled to play.
• Any request for replacements coming in after 3 pm the day before will be reviewed by the Tournament Director for approval. 
• Players in an event that lose a partner will be sent an email with specifics to locate a new partner to keep their spot.  
• Replacements can be found on the players needing partners list. 
• If a spot opens in the event, the next team will be contacted by email to pay their fees to fill the open spot.

Directions

151 Southlake Ave

Ridgeland MS 39157

Format

Format

DOUBLE ELIMINATION BRACKETS (6 or more teams)

• Winners bracket – 2 out of 3 to 11, win by 2.
• Losers bracket – 1 to 15, win by 2
• Bronze medal matches – 1-15, win by 2.
• Gold medal matches – 2 out of 3 to 11, win by 2.  If the losers bracket wins 2 out of 3 to 11, then another match will be played 1-15, win by 2 tiebreaker game will be played to determine the winner.

ROUND ROBIN BRACKETS (4 miniumum teams)

• 4 teams or players will play a double round robin, 1 game to 15, win by 2.

BRACKETS WITH FEWER THAN 3 TEAMS

• 1, 2, or 3 teams or players will be moved into a combined bracket. The number of teams or players will determine the format of play.

Round Robin results will be determined following the USA Pickleball Rulebook: