UTR is widely used throughout the tennis community by professionals, collegiate players, juniors, and recreational players. For any players that aspire to go to US College, UTR is the key measure that college coaches use to compare and select players for their teams.

UTR rates every tennis player, across age, gender, and geography, on a 16-point scale. It's an objective, results-driven rating based on:

1. Strength of opponent
2. Games won
3. Your last 30 matches within 12 months

Your UTR can change even if you don't play, because UTR Sports is constantly Refreshing, Recalculating, & Readjusting UTRs as new results are loaded.

If there is more than a 2-point difference between players UTR there is little or no impact on UTR ratings.

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UTR Sports Explained

Beginner and Development grade matches use low compression balls (Red, Orange & Green Dot), and these matches are NOT sent to UTR for rating. This is because this grade of play is about enjoying, learning and socialising while playing the game of tennis. Once a player moves to yellow ball competition graded, then your results will be uploaded.

Here's How To Get Started and create your UTR Sports Account.

If you don't already have one, follow the steps below.

(You might already have a profile generated on UTR Sports from playing in previous competitions, but not have an account in your name on the UTR Sports website.)

1. Go to the UTR web page
2. Click Join at the top-right corner of the page
3. Enter your email address and a password and click Sign Up with Email
4. Enter your profile info
5. Click Continue as a player

You can see how the UTR system works.

Your results from Association competitions (Not all TROLS Associations Participate with UTR Sports) are uploaded to a UTR profile that is created for your results, even if you don't have a UTR account.

The benefit of uploading results to UTR is that results are there even if the player does not have a UTR account.

It is not possible to know if a player has a UTR account or not unless you try to:

• Message them through the UTR app
• Select them to a UTR event (if you are an event organiser)

You only need a UTR account if you want to play UTR or TV/TA events (e.g. Flex Leagues, TV Pennant).

If you create a UTR account, you can "claim" your results so they are included in your profile. When you create a UTR account search your name to request the results you find are included in your account. If you don't do this, you will create (inadvertently) a duplicate profile. Make sure the spelling of your name is correct and consistent accross the competitions you play.

UTR Accounts are free, unless you upgrade to a Power Account (paid) and you want to see more detail about your progress and your opponents.

If you don't have a Tennis ID when you create your UTR account, just click "Add later in settings" under the submit button.

You only need a Tennis ID if you want to enter TA/TV events, or play in competitions run using TAs Match Centre.

Match results entered in TROLS are not sent to Match Centre, but all your results:- TROLS plus Match Centre are available in Universal Tennis web page or App.

Only UTR Sports Account holders can Merge Duplicate Profiles.

The Universal Tennis process: How to Report a Duplicate Profile

As part of the data Transfer Cycle, TROLS Administrator attempts to Merge Duplicate UTR Sports profiles (created via the TROLS process) where there is a matching name.

If you have a UTR Sports account via TAs Match Centre you will need to follow the above UTR Sports process.

A match tie-break or super tie-break is sent to UTR Sports as 1-0, even if it is displayed as 7-6 on the Association's result page.

For more information about UTR, go to the UTR Sports Help Centre, and from there you can search on a variety of topics.

Those Associations which have a signed MOU with UTR Sports has

• Regular upload of matches to UTR Sports, mostly weekly or fortnightly, though there can be longer gaps and delays due to School/Public Holidays, or staff taking leave
• The uploads occur on a Friday afernoons or all processed Match results waiting on TROLS, UTR Sports processes these Match results over the weekend and recalculates UTRs. Those UTRs are download on the following Tuesday
• Processing of Player Name correction, score correction or UTR Sports profile merging is done for the prior cycle for the next upload of matches
• Association can use the Player Ratings (UTRs) to assist in team gradings

1. Friday - extract all match results and upload to UTR Sports
2. Weekend - UTR Sports process the uploaded results, and resolved the prior Merging of UTR Sports Profiles, & Spelling corrections
3. Monday - receive a mapping file of TROLS Ids to UTR Sports Profile Ids and a new "Possible Duplicate Players" file
4. Tuesday - download player UTRs
5. Wedsnesday - resolve Monday's "Possible Duplicate Players" file

The UTRs in TROLS are downloaded once a week (Tuesday).
Where as the UTRs on the UTR Sports Website or Application are Refreshed, Recalculated, & Readjusted on a daily basis when new results (world-wide) are added to the database, and old ones fall out of contention.

For a new player in a Competition, UTR Sports creates a new UTR Sports Profile with the spelling of their name. If a spelling mistake is found, this is first corrected in the TROLS database by the Association Record Secretary, who also notifies TROLS Admin to include this correct and Profile Merge in the next Data Transfer Cycle.

Players or parents who notice errors in the spelling of their name, should notify their Club Competition Convenor, who will then notify the relevant Association Competition Record Secretary.

To assist Associations with player identification, especially where players play in more than one Association and/or Competition (e.g., Junior and Senior), it is helpful to supply Date of Birth (DoB).

The Universal Tennis process : How to Report a Duplicate Profile is only available to UTR Sports Account Holders.

When a player forfeits:

• The match result is 6-0, (depending on format) BUT
• The player result is 0-0, (e.g., no match) - must recorded as a Forfeit in the Match comments on the Score Card

When a player retires injured at, say 3-4 down in the first set

• The match result is 3-6, 0-6 (depending on format) BUT
• The player result is 3-4 retired - must record as set not finished and score at retirement in the Match comments on the Score Card or it goes in as a 0-6

The space at the bottom of the scoresheets needs to include notes for the Records Secretaries to know that:

• The match result (for the purposes of the Competition Ladder) and
• The player result (for the purposes of UTR) are different. The correct player result is then sent to UTR

If players play out of order or is ineligible to play that match, the played result does not count towards the competition league ladder, but the result as played is still sent to UTR.

• Spelling mistakes (same player listed more than once with different spelling)
• Names too hard to read (bad handwriting)
• Lack of info about Emergency players e.g., only first name provided - due to scorecard being filled at end of play after Emergency as left
• Scores entered to opposition team in error or vice versa
• Incorrect DoB's
• DoB's optional for seniors
• Incorrectly filled in scorecards
• Mismatched DoB's if a player plays more than one competition or plays for more than one club (in different competitions)
• Wrong opponent selected on Club Zone/TROLS

It is best to ensure the score entered into TROLS is correct.
Teams can do this by filling in full player names (Printed) before the start of play - when all the players, including emergencies are present to ensure spelling is correct

Players or parents who notice errors in the spelling of their name, should notify their Club Competition Convenor, who will then notify the relevant Association Competition Record Secretary.

During the current season you should connect your Club Competition Convenor (it helps if you have a copy of the physical Scorecard with the correct players/scores), they will in turn report the matter to the Association Record Secretary.

The Association can then correct the score on the TROLS web-site, and requeue that match to re-send the results to UTR Sports during the next data transfer cycle.

The Association may request the match result to be removed if the correct score is "no score".

If the match was from a prior competition season, then the result will have to stand.

The Record Secretaries have to make sure that the right player is selected and assigned the right results.

Important to remember the difference between match results and player results.

What to do	What is even better
Fill in the score sheet before matches start	Get the opposition to write their own names so that the spelling is correct and get correct information for Emergencies
PRINT player names	Be consistent. Use same name player used for their team entry (e.g. Steve or Stephen?). Include surnames
Put (E) after a name if the player is an emergency	Put extra info about them in the section at the bottom of the scorecard (M/F, DOB, Grade) and their playing history (have they played before at your club, another club? What grade etc..)
Copy a new score sheet if you need to	If you get it wrong (e.g. players out of order, home and away teams round the wrong way), then write out a new sheet
Use the comments section	Note in the comments section the reason a match isn't finished (the score when play stopped and the reason e.g. player retired, rain etc ...)
Check the scorecards before signing them	Get the supervising parent for junior matches to check player names and order of merit before signing the score sheet