Ultimate Tennis AKA KSWISS is a tennis league in GA. It is the most popular one around. As an adult, you play singles. One match a week, 6 weeks. At the end of the 6 weeks, depending on how well you did, you play in the playoffs. Pretty simple.
The good thing about it is that they are popular so you can play many different people in your league. EVEN THOUGH you live in the same place you opponents will change. Plus you don't have to travel too far for matches. I mean if one guy in Riverdale signs up and the closest people are in Atlanta, it sucks that everyone in the division has to drive 30 minutes to get to this one dude everytime he has a home match. Most people suck with directions and live in hard to find places.
The problem that I have with Ultimate Tennis is the system that they have for moving up in skill level. I started at 2.5 beat everyone and moved up to about 4.0- and lost interest.
4.0-....yes Ultimate tennis has 2 skill levels in every skill level. Instead of just splitting the groups in half and having a final for the two halves at the end. They chose to say "well we will make two different levels: a level that sucks and a level that is good." They stole the rating system from USTA which defines what skills you should have to be a certain type of player. But then they split that up. So instead of 3 4 5 6. you have USTA 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 etc. and Ultimate 3- 3.0 3.5- 3.5 etc. It burns me up when you are asked what level you play and you have to say MINUS because you play in ULTIMATE. It's all a ploy to make you play twice as many levels for $35 a season. Which is hugely expensive.
The second problem is that I have played ultimate tennis since 2.5. Moving up is HARD...which I will talk about later. But you could look off that ratings sheet and say "hey, I'm a 3.5" and bam you are that guy. And if you are that good that is fine but I could be as good as you and stuck in 3.0 for a while. Half of my seasons a few times were RIDDLED with guys that never played a match before....EVER. I don't want to tell my opponent how to play at 3.5 level.
The third problem is excruciating. You have to DEMOLISH people to move up. I mean you have to beat everyone, have one three setter, AND take down a guy like 6-0 6-2. If one of your guys was a substitute, the points don't count. Sometimes they give you the benefit of the doubt. sometimes not. I think that if you beat EVERYONE or maybe lost one match in a close 3 set match, you should move up.
There are so many leagues in GA. So try some out. League tennis, Peach Tennis, USTA, T2 Tennis. Smaller leagues tend to have more diehard tennis players. They are cheaper and need more people. Especially JUNIORS.
