** GOAL: Perfect training ground for more TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE, try out these mini-tournaments. Success happens in direct proportion to your preparedness for success!! 💪

IMPORTANT: Please bring plenty of water and bananas 😊, due to the high intensity of these matches! We have LIMITED SPOTS per week however, still add your name on the Waiting List as an emergency, as you may still get to have a match.

VERY IMPORTANT: Book Online EARLY So The Tournament Round Robin Matches Can Be Scheduled!!

** PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BELOW:

• Pickleball FUN Community (PFC) & Ashburton Pool & Recreation Centre (ASHY) MASTER MONDAY TOURNAMENT offers 4 indoor pickleball courts, with all equipment including a variety of demo paddles from our major sponsor JOOLA and our local paddle supporter HUSTLE to try out during your 3-hour Pickleball FUN mini tournament.

• Become the MASTER of the Pickleball FUN court! You play in timed matches of 15 minutes each; if you win, you move up towards the MASTER court.

• To create more interesting FUN, once you move up a court your partnership will change. Each time you win, you split up your team to play with a new teammate each game! 😄

• Try and get to the MASTER court and stay there until the end of the 3 hours!! With some very short breaks in between you will play up to 10+ matches for the 3 hours. 😅

*** GUIDELINES *** TO ENSURE COMPETITIVE MATCHES & AWESOME SPORTSMANSHIP!

• First and foremost, ensure your partner is OPEN TO RECEIVING FEEDBACK during a game BEFORE providing any (e.g. would they prefer you waited until a time-out or the end of the game or are they open to receiving suggestions after every single rally?); remember the onus may be on YOU to keep quiet.

• DO PROVIDE POSITIVE ENCOURAGEMENT to your partner and even your opponents, if one makes a mistake or does an awesome shot; pumping up each other’s spirits can do wonders for your game!

• FORMULATING STRATEGIES (i.e. stacking) with your partner is encouraged but do ensure your partner understands and is comfortable with what is proposed; MOST IMPORTANTLY, give them the opportunity to provide feedback on your suggestions, it should NEVER be a “one-way street” as we are ALL learning and hoping to improve. Consider using words like “Can we please consider trying XYZ…” as opposed to “Make sure you do ABC or don’t do XYZ…”

• Given the advanced nature of the matches, it is expected that ALL PLAYERS follow FUNDAMENTAL PICKLEBALL STRATEGIES such as running to the kitchen line after returning serve (RETURN & RUN), SERVE & STAY strategy, both TRANSITIONING to the kitchen line and most importantly using a COMBINATION of soft and hard shots throughout the game and know when to use it (i.e. not just play as “bangers”).

• WE ALL have off days sometimes when things seem to go wrong no matter what we do; it is up to each and every single player to control their frustration/disappointment/anger and ensure this doesn’t ruin the game for others, whether it’s their partner making the mistakes or themselves.

• Don’t be afraid to HAVE FUN & HAVE A LAUGH as you enjoy the competitive matches and keep improving as a PICKLEBALL FUN SUPERSTAR! 🤩🤩

** BOOK ONLINE NOW FOR YOUR MASTER MONDAY TOURNAMENT and then FULLY Read Guidelines

IMPORTANT: Please bring plenty of water, due to the high intensity of these matches! We have LIMITED SPOTS per week however, still add your name on the Waiting List as an emergency, as you may still get to have a match.

VERY IMPORTANT: Book Online EARLY So The Tournament Round Robin Matches Can Be Scheduled!!