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Firstly, each team must have a minimum of 4 players (2 men and 2 women) and an athlete may only play a maximum of two times in a team match. In the case of only 4 players, each athlete must play two matches, i.e. both men’s and women’s doubles, plus singles or mixed doubles. If, on arrival at the place of competition, due to illness or injury, etc., there are fewer than 4 players (only 1 man and 2 women or 2 men and 1 woman), the number of matches that cannot be played in a team match is treated as a losing match. In the event that a team has only 1 man and 1 woman left, that team match is cancelled.
Secondly, the list of athletes to play in each team competition shall be submitted by each team leader to the referee 4 hours before the start of the competition, or in the case of semi-finals and finals of the highest group (group of 1 to 8 places), 8 hours before the start of the competition. After the submission of the list, if any athlete is unable to compete due to illness or accident, the head referee may agree to replace the athlete, but the replaced athlete will not be allowed to compete in that team competition.
Thirdly, at the same time of submitting the list, each team leader may provide the referee with his/her team’s suggestions on the starting order of the five races for his/her reference, and the final order of the races shall be decided by the referee. If there is a problem of unavoidable back-to-back races for an athlete due to a combination of events, there should be a 30-minute interval between the athlete’s two consecutive races.
Fourthly, in the first stage of the team competition, a round robin is played and all five matches in each team competition must be played. Whereas in non-round robin matches (semi-finals and finals), when one side wins three matches, the remaining two or one match is not played.
In the first stage of the group round robin, the ranking is determined by the order of the team’s wins. If two teams are equal in terms of wins, they are ranked according to the number of matches won or lost between them, and the winner is ranked first; if three or more teams are equal in terms of wins, the ranking is determined by their wins from all the matches played in the group; and if they are equal again, the ranking is determined by the number of games won from all the matches they played in the group.
(Note: In the BWF competition regulations, we call a team match “TIE”, a singles or doubles match “MATCH”, and “court”. A singles or doubles match is called a “MATCH”, a “GAME” is called a “GAME”, and a “POINT” is called a “POINT”. “POINT” we call it)
The first point above is not a big problem for the first group at the highest level, as these teams have a sufficient number of dedicated singles and doubles players. The remaining three points, on the other hand, lead to many variations.
Choosing the order of play tests the level of team scheduling
In the first few tournaments from 1989 onwards, every team match had to be played all five games, which made sense in the first stage of the group round robin, because the way the group round robin determines the ranking order requires each team to value every game, set and point won. But in non-round-robin play, when a team has already won three games in a team game, it becomes redundant to play the remaining game (or two). Although the “rules” require that all five matches be played in order to allow spectators to enjoy more matches, the fact is that the athletes are not interested in playing because the outcome of the matches has already been decided. The scores of the semi-finals and finals of the previous editions showed that when one side scored three points, the rest of the match was abandoned.
In 1993, it was changed to “In the semi-finals or finals, when the result of the match has been decided, the referee may decide whether or not to play the remaining matches”, and in 2001, it was simply changed to “In non-round-robin group matches, when the winner has been decided, the remaining matches will not be played”. “.
To sum up the above aspects, the order of matches is an issue that needs to be carefully considered by the coaches of each team when arranging their matches. Because two teams of comparable overall level have different winning percentages in the five individual events, the psychological impact of winning or losing the first match of a team competition on the whole team is very obvious, and teams would like to have the event with the higher winning percentage of their team to be arranged in the first match. Most teams often have an athlete in the men’s doubles and women’s doubles who needs to play mixed doubles as well, so there is a lot to be said about which doubles or mixed doubles match the athlete who plays both disciplines will play first. For example, there was a Su Cup match, team A’s women’s doubles strength is clearly superior, and team B’s a women’s doubles to mixed doubles, team A wants to women’s doubles to play first, one of the total score can be ahead of the other is in the women’s doubles, try to consume the physical strength of the mixed doubles athletes of team B and mixed doubles for the mixed doubles match to open up the way.
The SU Cup Competition Regulations do not prescribe or suggest in principle the order of the five matches in the team competition. When the referee receives the lists of players from both sides of the competition and the proposed order of matches, if both sides have the same attitude, there is no problem. If there is no agreement, the referee will generally take the order in which neither side has a concurrent athlete playing back-to-back matches as the preferred option, and try to space two matches between the two matches of the concurrent athlete. As to which item is played first, it is generally: if singles and doubles, singles is played first; if doubles and mixed doubles, mixed doubles is played first, but it is also entirely up to the head referee to personally combine all factors. In other words, although the head referee is not bound by any constraints in making the decision on the order of matches, it also reflects the overall business level of the head referee.
As a leading coach, apart from building a strong team, he should also be well versed in the competition rules and regulations and be good at mobilising his favourable factors and making good relationships with all parties, which is also crucial to winning key battles.
