Media game
The media games are the team season games in tennis for young people and adults in Germany. They were named after Carl August von der Meden , a former president of the DTB .
history
The media games were held by the Hamburg tennis guild in honor of Carl August von der Meden even before the First World War . Originally, the media games were a club championship. In 1927 they were converted into a championship of the districts, whereby Berlin was initially allowed to field two teams with Rot-Weiß Berlin and the Berlin Association. After the National Socialists came to power , Gaue took the place of the districts in 1934 . Since 1948, the media games have been held as championships of the regional associations, which are now called the Great Meden Games and are held together with their counterpart in the women's game, the Great Poensgen Games . By contrast, the team season games of all ages and genders at club level are referred to as media games.
Leagues
The league hierarchy goes from the 1st Bundesliga (federal level) over the association level to the district or district level. The media games (adult games) are played in the individual associations. The associations are in turn divided into individual districts. The rules for the media games are laid down in competition rules.
Lineup
In a media game, nine (six-man team) or six points (four-man team) are played out. The players on a team are counted from 1 to 6 or from 1 to 4. The position (team line-up) results from the performance class and is already determined before the start of a season.
procedure
Six or four individual games are played, in which the first player of one team competes against the first player of the other team, etc.
Then three or two doubles are played, which are also numbered. Players can be exchanged for the doubles, which is why a team can use up to 12 or 8 players in a competition. The order determines the total of the placements of the two players. The first double plays against the first double, etc.
There is one point for every match won. The team with the most points wins.
In a 4-man team, a 3: 3 decides which team has won more sets. If there is another tie, the games won and if there is another tie, the team that won the first double wins.
Period
The games in summer usually take place on outdoor courts from May to July. A group usually consists of six to eight teams that compete against each other (everyone against everyone). There is usually only one game between two teams, so there is no round trip.
In addition to this summer round, some associations or districts also organize a winter round, which is played exclusively in tennis halls.
Age groups
The media games are played in many different age groups. In the case of adults, there is, on the one hand, the open age group of the active, in which all age groups can participate (young people from the age of twelve are also permitted). On the other hand, there are numerous age groups for older players, the first of which is that of the over 30s. Then the classes line up in 10-year steps up to those over 50. From then on, most associations offer age groups in 5-year steps. The oldest classes currently on offer are those over 80.
The youth classes consist of three age groups: Bambini (usually a mixed class for boys and girls in the U12 age group), boys and girls (each U14) and juniors (U18).
In recent years, as part of efforts to bring the kids early for tennis, many places additional age group for U10 and occasionally to come and U8, not, however, usually above the normal tennis field but a highly scaled-down tennis court called that its competitions Kleinfeld Tennis unsubscribe .
Weighting the doubles
In recent years there have been more and more efforts to attach greater importance to doubles, as it happens again and again that with a score of 4: 2 (of course even more so with a 5: 1 or 6: 0) after the singles Doubles are no longer played because the team behind no longer sees any chance of winning the match. The doubles are then mostly “split up” by “injury-related” tasks, so that the final result is usually 6: 3 (4: 2 after the singles). Different strategies are chosen in the various associations to avoid this unsporting behavior:
- In the Middle Rhine Tennis Association there are play groups in which the doubles should be given greater importance by being played before the singles.
- From 2005 to 2007, the Niederrhein Tennis Association awarded 3: 0 points for a 9: 0, 8: 1 or 7: 2 win, but 2: 1 points for a score of 6: 3 or 5: 4.
- In the Rhineland-Palatinate Tennis Association , the Saarland Tennis Association and, since 2014, the Bavarian Tennis Association , two points are awarded for a single won, but three points for a double won. Thus, with a score of one won to five lost singles, the score is 2:10, which can be made up by winning all doubles. If the score is 2: 4 (singles), you still need all three doubles.
literature
- Deutscher Tennis Bund (Ed.): Tennis in Germany. From the beginning until 2002. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002. ISBN 978-3-4281-0846-6 . P. 306 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Large Meden- / Poensgen Games on dtb-tennis.de, accessed on April 28, 2016
- ↑ Tennis: double specialists are rewarded (nordbayern.de from December 13, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2016)
- ↑ Doubles end their shadowy existence (augsburger-allgemeine.de of April 24, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2016)