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League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 31 March

As the 2021/22 summer season of Tennis comes to a close, the rollout of the new Competitive Play Framework and transition to the UTR Rating for Australian tennis continues.

The following release is essential to ensuring a smooth transition to the 2022/23 summer season.

As of 31 March 2022, League Manager and Match Centre users will notice a change to the ratings display. The change is an important step in moving towards the new Competitive Play Framework and transition to a UTR Rating which comes into full effect on 1 October 2022, prior to the commencement of the 2022/23 summer season.

In that regard, please note the following updates to League Manager and Match Centre to be released on Thursday 31 March, which includes the following:

 

League Manager

  • The UTR Rating will replace the TA Rating displays, such as but not limited to; player profiles, team profiles, nominations, player search, statistics display, scorecard views etc.

       Note: the TA Rating will be available in selected League Manager reports during the transition period. The reports include: Player Grading Report, Weekly Ratings Comparison, Statistics reports and others

  • A new Player Grading Report using the UTR Rating only has been added to the League Manager reporting suite
  • UTR Ratings value added to the Custom Report output fields
  • Minor bug fixes

 

Match Centre

  • The UTR Rating will replace the TA Rating displays on; team profiles, competition registration summaries and scorecard views

       Note: The TA Rating remain visible on player dashboards until the end of the 2022 winter season.

  • Minor bug fixes

 

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Tuesday 28 December

Please note the following release updates to League Manager and Match Centre on the evening of Tuesday 28 December, which includes the following:

League Manager

  • Selected administration reports now have UTR Ratings visible against players. A list of the reports that now include UTR Ratings are outlined below:
Report Category Report Name
Competition Management Other Organisation Team Information
Competition Management Team Squad Overview
Grading & Ratings Player Grading Information
Grading & Ratings Team Grading Information
Grading & Ratings Weekly Player Ratings Comparison
Matches, Results & Ladders Order of Merit Report
Organisation Management Club Player Details
Organisation Management Possible Duplicate Players
Statistics Organisation Player Lifetime Statistics
Statistics Organisation Team Player Statistics
Statistics Player Statistics by League
  • UTR Ratings will be updated once per week, every Tuesday morning at 02:00am (AEST)
  • Minor bug fixes

Match Centre

  • When logged in, on your own player dashboard your Tennis ID will be visible below your name. Your Tennis ID is unique to you and is generated when you created your account through the Join Tennis process.
  • Fixed the UTR Ratings display issue after merging a duplicate player record
  • Updates to information on the UTR Ratings via the question mark (?) icon above UTR Ratings on your dashboard.
  • UTR Ratings will now vary in display based on the players age:
    • Players aged 0-9: No rating will be displayed
    • Players aged 10-12: Displayed to one decimal number. E.g. 3.1
    • Players aged 13 and above: Displayed to two decimal places. E.g. 5.23
  • UTR Ratings will be updated once per week, every Tuesday morning at 02:00am (AEST)
  • Minor bug fixes

Support Guides

We have updated the following support guides with additional information related the UTR Rating. Links to the updated guides are below:

 

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more informatio

 

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 9 December

Please note the following release updates to League Manager and Match Centre on Thursday 9 December, which includes the following:

League Manager

  • League settings Category dropdown option for seniors updated to ‘Seniors 30+’ to align with ITF age category
  • Fixed the ability to send result entry email reminders for Players and Team Captain via League Template settings
  • Updated the functionality of the Edit Ladder Calculation Format for a division to force an instant ladder rebuild on a change of calculation format.
  • Minor bug fixes

Match Centre

  • New notification toggle on/off setting for Result Entry Reminder email notifications
  • Minor bug fixes

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

 

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Friday 27 August

Please note the following release updates to League Manager and Match Centre on Friday 27 August, which includes the following:

League Manager

  • Ability to Print Ladders for competitions that your organisation administers or participates in via Results Management > Print Ladders
  • Fixed Roles & Rights functionality issues and simplified access rights for various user roles: Competition Manager, Teams Administrator, and Results Entry Manager
  • Updated Report access based on user Roles & Rights, ensuring role types access only relevant reports
  • Fixed report outputs for the following reports:
    • All Facility & Venue reports
    • Organisation Payments
  • Fixed squads locking and preventing players being added during team nomination open period
  • Minor bug fixes

Match Centre

  • Fixed result entry incorrectly displaying Cancel Reason selection on completed rubbers
  • Minor bug fixes

The user guide for Roles and Rights in League Manager can be found HERE.

The user guide for the Print Ladder function in League Manager can be found HERE.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

 

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 7 July

Please note the following release updates to League Manager and Match Centre on Thursday 7 July, which includes the following:

 

League Manager

  • Fixed the Facility/Venue report outputs to increase captured matches at affiliated venues and use of organisation facilities by non-affiliated organisations
  • Fixed application of result entry restrictions in League Template settings
  • Fixed delay of cancelled matches updating/applying to ladders
  • Minor bug fixes

 

Match Centre

  • Division profiles when viewing the Matches tab now displays the day, date and month for past matches
  • When viewing the full scorecard for past matches the day, date, month and time of the match is now viewable under the venue information
  • Minor bug fixes

 

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

 

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 17 June

Please note on Thursday 17 June a minor League Manager and Match Centre software release occurred, which includes the following updates:

League Manager

  • Additional payment descriptions added to Stripe payment table summary
  • Fixed Draw Seed allocation error when a participant is withdrawn from competition prior to fixture generation
  • Minor bug fixes

Match Centre

  • Increased character limit of team names for various displays, including: Match Cards, Ladders and Honour Roll
  • Ability to access player profiles by clicking players when viewing a completed scorecard
  • Fixed result entry permissions not applying correctly for some competitions
  • Minor bug fixes

The user guide for the changes to the Honour Roll view on Match Centre can be found HERE.

The user guide for the changes to the completed scorecard view on Match Centre can be found HERE.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

 

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 27 May

Please note on Thursday 27 May a League Manager and Match Centre release was completed, which included the follow updates:

League Manager

  • League Template setting updated to allow administrators to determine if Player Rubber Designation is required for a Not Played/Cancelled matches
  • Pending Persons page pagination added to remove person display list limit
  • Search functionality added to Pending Persons page
  • Rubber/Game/Set percentage (%) display error on Ladders when the loss total was equal to one (1)
  • Double Forfeit option now appears at Rubber level Cancel Reason in result entry
  • Default year and/or season selector/filters set to 2021
  • Minor bug fixes

Match Centre

  • Ability to enter players against Rubbers for Not Played/Cancelled matches during result entry, where the competition administrator requires Player Rubber Designation
  • Rubber/Game/Set percentage (%) display error on Ladders when the loss total was equal to one (1)
  • Minor bug fixes

 

Further information on the Player Rubber Designation Not Played Match update is detailed below.

With the release of the new Match Centre, player Rubber designation for matches that were Not Played were required to be entered via League Manager and an automated email communication sent to the relevant persons regarding the requirement to enter players against the rubbers via League Manger.

League Manager administrators can now update their League Templates to determine if player Rubber designation is required, and if it is, teams will have the ability to enter players for Not Played matches via Match Centre.

 

Change 1: League Template – Advance Settings updated

  • All league templates will be default set to player designation not required for Not Played matches.
  • League Managers can update their settings via the ‘Edit’ template function (refer to user guide)

Change 2: Removed ‘Who should receive a reminder following a Not Played match to enter players via League Manager?’ setting in League Templates

  • Setting removed and replaced with new toggle setting ‘Matches marked Not Played require player Rubber designation?’
  • Reminder emails will no longer be sent as the task can now be performed by Match Centre users

Change 3: Match Centre users can enter player Rubber designation for Not Played matches

  • When the template setting requires player designation, Match Centre users will be prompted to enter players against rubbers for Not Played matches

 

The user guide for League Managers regarding Rubber designation settings can be found HERE.

The user guide for Match Centre and the process for Not Played matches can be found HERE.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

 

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Thursday 15 April

Please note on Thursday 15 April a minor League Manager and Match Centre software release occurred, which includes the following updates:

 

League Manager

  • Edit Squad function allowing listed Fill-in Players to be changed to Reserve Players
  • Junior Categories during competition setup incorrectly showing adult options now removed
  • Draw Seed error message incorrectly displaying during draw seed allocation for teams removed from competition
  • Minor Bug fixes

 

Match Centre

  • Ability to print scorecard from mobile device

A user guide for the print scorecard update can be found here.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team on 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected]

League Manager Update – 11 February 2021

We are excited to announce updates to the League Manager reporting suite for club and competition administrators, will be available 11 February 2021.

Following feedback from users around the country, we have made updates to the reporting functionality to provide administrators greater flexibility and customisation of reporting, streamlined reports to assist competition administration and provide increased access to competition insights.

The enhancements to the League Manager reporting suite include, but is not limited to:

  • Additional data fields/information to existing reports
  • 12 new reports allowing greater insights (e.g. player retention, player ratings and person management)
  • Customisation of report outputs (remove and/or reorder data fields)
  • Save custom report outputs for future use
  • Enhanced filter functionality for reporting on multiple competitions, seasons, and dates
  • Improved usability of report output data tables for ease of use in excel
  • Expanded reporting ability for organisations to report on child organisations (i.e. Associations can run reports on affiliated organisations)
  • Improved report generation speed and times

For more detailed feature and user guide information on reporting, please visit the League Manager product knowledge base. Alternatively, when logged in to League Manager click ‘Support’ on the menu bar to access WalkMe which provides step-by-step instructions for a range of League Manager tasks.

Direct access to the League Manager Reporting user guide is HERE.

Please note any reports that currently sit in the ‘Previous Reports’ log will be cleared as part of the update only, as opposed to automatically removing every 72hrs. Please ensure that you save any key reports where required, as report outputs will change as part of the update.

If you do encounter any issues, simply require some assistance or would like provide feedback on League Manager reporting, please contact Customer Support via 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected].

 

Are you an association or club administrator interested in using League Manager (Tennis Australia’s free online competition management system) for your competitions? Please click HERE for more information.

League Manager & Match Centre Update – Friday 13 November

In May this year we announced a new Match Centre (Beta version), a mobile friendly and personalised user experience for competition tennis.  We are excited to announce that the Beta period is completed and Tennis will be fully transitioning across to the new Match Centre experience, matchcentre.tennis.com.au. 

The date of transition is Wednesday 16th December 2020, with all web traffic and users from leagues.tennis.com.au being redirected to the matchcentre.tennis.com.au. Existing users of League Manager & Match Centre do not need to create a new account, simply log in with your existing details. 

Tennis Australia will be placing a notification on leagues.tennis.com.au directing current users to the new Match Centre in the near future, with the notification displaying up until the 15th December. In addition, a direct notification will be sent to all League Manager and Match Centre users advising of the transition to matchcentre.tennis.com.au. 

Some of the key features of the new look Match Centre include:  

  • Mobile tailored experience 
    • Personal Dashboard: your matches, results & ladders 
    • Find Clubs and Associations to play at 
    • Competition registration & payment 
    • Fill-in player invites and requests 
    • Challenge competition invites and requests 
    • Flex leagues 
    • Performance insights 
    • Follow Teams and Players  

Click HERE to view a quick video guide of the new player dashboard. For more detailed feature and user guide information visit the Match Centre product knowledge base. 

Please note that any organisation that utilises the TA League Manager provided i–Frame display for fixtures, results and ladders will continue to be supported in their current state.   

Any organisation that lists direct links and/or references to leagues.tennis.com.au on their website is encouraged to update the URL references with the new URL, matchcentre.tennis.com.au. 

If you do encounter any issues, simply require some assistance, or would like to provide feedback on Match Centre please contact Customer Support via 1800 PLAY TENNIS (1800 752 983) or email [email protected].