Fall 2026 Season
Round 2 Groups (Mixed Doubles Super-Ladder)
A mixed doubles league fed the initial order of a mixed doubles ladder. The league continues in ranked flights above the ladder, while new teams are added to the bottom of the ladder. Every team in the ranked flights (top half of the ladder) is seeded by previous-round Mixed Doubles results and placed into a flight of three. From rung 5 down, both conferences merge into one open Ladder. See Round 1 standings → · See Round 1 groups →
Round 2 flights are seeded from the Round 1 standings.
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How the seeds were decided
How the flights were built from those seeds
- Teams are ranked by the tiebreakers above, then dealt into two conferences with a 6-team snake: the 1st, 4th and 5th seeds go to the ATP Men’s Conference (flown under ATP male player names) and the 2nd, 3rd and 6th seeds go to the ATP Women’s Conference (flown under ATP female player names). The pattern repeats every six seeds.
- The snake keeps the two conferences at the same strength at every rung, so no one gets an easier path because they landed in a particular conference.
- Each conference is then cut into flights of three, in seed order.
- From rung 5 down the cutting stops. Those teams — every team seeded 5th in its conference or lower — are pooled into one cross-conference Ladder instead of separate flights.
- Your Round 1 level (Intermediate or Casual) does not decide your flight in Round 2. Flights are seeded purely by results, so a flight can hold one Intermediate team and two Casual teams. A team’s level is only used as the seeding bonus described above.
Round 2 / 3 schedule
- Round 2 runs 4 weeks and each team plays 2 matches against the other teams in its flight.
- The Ladder has no fixture list. There is no schedule and no matchday: a Ladder team plays whichever team it is allowed to challenge, in whatever order suits both teams. With ~19 teams a full round robin would be 171 fixtures, which is why the ladder is left open instead of pre-scheduled.
- A Ladder result is reported on the Report Score page like any other result. The ladder has no deadline inside the 4 weeks — play as many ladder matches as you and your opponents can arrange.
How the Ladder works
- The Ladder opens in Round 1 finishing order. The team that finished highest in Round 1 is rank 1, the next is rank 2, and so on — so the ladder has a real standing from day one instead of everyone starting level.
- You also challenge the teams near you to make a match happen. A challenge is a request to play, and it is also the limit on who you can play: you may only play a team you are allowed to challenge, so report the score against a team within your challenge window.
- Only the first player listed on your team issues, accepts, declines or withdraws a ladder challenge, and only that player is texted and emailed about it. Your partner can see the Ladder and the team’s challenges, but the buttons are theirs to press — otherwise both of you could answer the same challenge and the second answer would overwrite the first.
The Ladder challenge rules
Promotion and relegation
- After the 4 weeks of Round 2, the top team in each flight moves up one rung and the last place team in each flight moves down one rung. Movement stays inside your conference — an ATP Men’s Conference team never crosses into the ATP Women’s Conference. Everyone in the middle stays where they are.
- The winner of the top rung has nowhere to move up to, and rung 4 teams that finish last move down into the Ladder.
- Out of the Ladder: the top 2 teams in the Ladder move up into the #4 slots in the Round 3 groups. The Ladder is a single pool shared by both conferences — there are no conference sides to win — so the two highest-ranked Ladder teams go up, whoever they are. Nobody is relegated out of the ladder, so the rest of the pool stays put. The ladder is challenge-driven: you start in Round 1 finishing order, and a win by the lower-ranked team takes the loser’s rung. See “The Ladder challenge rules” above for the full ruleset.
- Round 3 is the final round, and the same promotion and relegation applies again inside each conference.
- At the end of Round 3, a playoff bracket is generated. Each conference will have one representative for the championship, which is presumably the top team in the top flight of each conference. However, if it happens that a team goes 6–0 across the 3 rounds and is not the top team in the top flight (may happen to a team that was initially “Casual” level), that team will also be entered into a playoff bracket for the conference title with the top team of the top flight and any other undefeated teams from the conference.