2025 Interclub Season info and dates below.

2025 Interclub Dates and Information

Web address for Top Dog

http://greaterknoxvilletennisassociation.topdoglive.com/pages/club_information.asp?orgid=391

4/12/24 – Deadline for captain and co-captain contact info, email and phone #

4/15/24 – Top Dog opens for registration and payment of $15 league fee

5/10/24 – Deadline for legal roster on topdog (8 members minimum on a team)

5/13 - 5/17/24 – Generate Schedules and calculate ball requirements

5/22/24 – Pick up Balls at Cherokee Country Club (10am -1pm)

5/22/24 - Schedules posted on Top Dog site

5/25/24 – GKTA dues of $20 are due to be paid at playtennis.usta.com/gkta/GKTAMembership

6/3/24 – Season Begins

Makeup matches can be played and entered until 9/27/2024 when Top Dog closes.

• AA through A4 play 4 courts, A5 will play 3 courts.

• Start time will be 9AM this year with warm-ups to start at 8:30 and lineups to be exchanged at 8:45 (after both captains have verified that all their players are present and ready to play). This is a continuation of the format from 2020. If there is any need for a delayed start time on any court, it is imperative that the captain(s) communicate with their players and club. Communication between captains is essential to avoid confusion.

• Interclub is not USTA league play and is meant to be fun social tennis for Knoxville area tennis players. We will continue to emphasize two concepts: Kindness and Good Communication. Many incidents can be avoided by communicating and being kind to each other. In order to communicate effectively each club/team must submit current contact information (both phone numbers and email addresses) for both the captain and co-captain for each team as soon as possible and definitely before the season starts. That information will be available on the team's top dog site.

• Because we are a social league, refreshments have long been a part of our after match social time. Due to Covid we respect any teams choice to not provide refreshments, but water should be available for all matches. Please let the visiting captain know when you call to confirm the match whether you plan to offer refreshments or not.

• Note that Green Meadow Country Club teams will now play as Blount Co. teams. Their matches will be played at John Sevier Courts (A1 and A4). This change was made to avoid playing on two different surfaces(Clay and Hard).

2025 FEE PAYMENTS AND ADDING SUBS TO INTERCLUB

• Each player's League Fee of $15 must be paid when player is added to roster on Top Dog. This is to minimize the number of defaults due to non payment of League Fee. Captains will need to collect League Fee of $15 from their players and then register players and pay fees OR players may go on line and register themselves and pay their own league fee. This is up to the club/captain. Captains may contact Stacy if help is needed with registering players. Contact info next paragraph.

• In order to add a player as a sub to a second roster at your club you must contact Stacy Carlson, League Co-ordinator, at (sos10sz1@aol.com or 619-606-3162) to add the player without paying the League Fee a second time. Subs are suppose to be added to the team roster 24 hours prior to the match so you need to contact Stacy 48 hours prior to the match. An easy way to do this is pick several potential players to sub from the team below your level and add them to the roster as subs when the season begins.

• This year players have the ability to play for two different teams full time at one or two different clubs. The player will have to pay two league fees, one for each team. The player will not be allowed to sub up on another team if full time on two teams. It is important to remember that any one player may only play on 2 teams total. One team and sub for another level (1 fee) or two separate teams (2 fees) and no subbing.

Registration Fees

There are two fees/dues that need to be paid before you play your first interclub match. They are the League Fee of $15 (New amount in 2021) and the GKTA dues of $20. The $15 League Fee must be paid when you are added to a roster on top dog. Club contacts (see contact list on top dog site) and captains can add and pay for players. Individual players can also pay and add themselves to a roster.

The second cost is GKTA dues of $20. See the next paragraph for payment instructions.

Players pay their GKTA dues ($20) on line at WWW.GKTA.USTA.COM. Or https://playtennis.usta.com/gktamembership. Failure to pay will result in default of interclub matches played.

NOTE: USTA membership and USTA league fees have nothing to do with GKTA Interclub! However, if you played USTA in the spring you should have already paid your GKTA dues and have a copy of the receipt showing your dues of $20 have been paid. Put this receipt in your tennis bag to show your Captain that you are paid up and cleared to play or take a picture of the reciept with your phone. The $15 interclub league fee is paid when you are added to the team roster on topdog and covers the cost of balls, the Topdogtennis fee, and any charge for paying your fee on line. GKTA gets the remainder of the fee. The Interclub Fee of $15 can be collected by your captain or League Administrator/Club and paid when she adds you to the team roster or if your team can register individually then you can pay for yourself.

NOTE: Players are required to pay both League Fee and GKTA dues and matches will be defaulted if players are found to not have paid these two fees/dues. My strong recommedation is that you print off receipts and keep them in your tennis bag as proof of payment or take a picture of the receipts with your phone so you can easily find the receipt. Remember the cost of $15 and $20 as they are unique to Interclub.

* 3-Court format.
**It is the captain's responsibility to notify the committee and coordinate with the club to schedule any make-ups if there is a conflict.

Dates of play will advance in 2026