• Generate line-ups for matches 
• Build-in team practices 
• View and update player availability 
• View player preferences and statistics 
• Create match announcements 

 For Players

• View Captain’s line-up for matches and team practices 
• View and update their availability 
• Update their preferences

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In case you are having trouble with the new TennisLink site, here are some directions that I hope will help.  

The major change is that your usta number doesn’t get you very far any more.  You need to have a USTA account to enter scores.

Start at tennislink.usta.com/leagues/common.

USTA account means your USTA number and/or email address associated with a password of your choosing.  You can get that set up by clicking on the “Create a USTA account” button.  If you had already set that up you click on the “Do you already have a USTA account?” link.

Then you log into your USTA account.  You must log in to enter scores.

On the page that says Welcome YOUR NAME, there is a link under quick links that reads “record a score”   This takes you to the screen to record the scores.

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Excerpted from USTA.com News - February 7, 2011

The Final Word, Richard Kaufman, USTA Director of Officials, answers your questions.

KAUFMAN: Yes, see 2011 Friend At Court, page 47, # 12.  The Code: Players Guide for Matches When Officials Are Not Present

Prior to 2011, if the correction on a serve or in a rally was made immediately and the player returned the ball back into the court, then a let was played. 

However starting in 2011, the USTA Tennis Rules and Regulations Committee has determined that any call on a serve or in a rally corrected from out to good is loss of point to the player or team that corrected the call, even if the ball is put back into play.  An out call on any ball (on a serve or in a rally) that is corrected to good is considered to have created a hindrance to play and it is loss of point due to this hindrance.

NOTE: The only exception is on the first or second serve that is a service let (i.e. the ball hits the net before it lands in the service box).
Let serves that occur on first or second serve and called out and are then corrected to good result in the replay of the entire point, thus a first serve to the server.
 
Additional Comments from Rich Kaufman:
 
This procedural change to 2011 Friend At Court, page 47, # 12.  The Code: was debated for many years by the USTA Rules and Regulations Committee before the change was made.

It was concluded by this Committee that:

1.     Most honest corrections are point ending shots or very weak returns in which case under the previous procedure the point is lost to the team that corrected the call.  So in fact this new procedure does not in any way affect those situations.

2.     Weak returns lead to many arguments and contentious debates on what constitutes a "weak return in play."  The previous procedure for those players correcting out calls to good was that they should concede the point if it was a weak return in play.  In these cases the opposing team would have won the point if no call had been made.

3.     In many cases cheaters never seem to change their calls. Their integrity in an unofficiated match is always in question under the old and new procedure. 

4.  In the final analysis, if the ball is that close to the line then players should bite their tongues and play it as good and continue the point rather than create a hindrance to play with an incorrect call.  If there is any doubt about a call being in or out then the ball must always be considered "in."  Code 6 states that a player is NOT supposed to be calling close balls out.