I believe that during weeks that the league ties up the courts, courts should be restricted to 60 minutes of play time to allow maximun participation of all players and members. Holiday weeks or summer when leagues are not in session, 90 minute scheduling should be reinstated.

Additionally, the amount of time a member is able to schedule should be the same whether it is done on line or at the front deak.

Mymessage is a little bit off the subject although I'll comment that maybe 90 minute slots would be okay during the week between maybe 6:00 am to maybe 4:00 pm. My main problem is when I want to reserve a court and can't because there all reserved.  I come in to work out or go to a class and there's NOBODY on the courts!  I think there needs to be some sort of accountability on players showing up when they reserve those courts.  What I do now is everytime I go to the gym, I bring my racquet because 9 out of 10 times, I can get some practice.  Be nice though to have someone to play with.

susie

This should be based on a per club basis...one size does not fit all.

I also agree that people making reservations should be held accountable for either showing or cancelling so that others can use the slots.

I personally like the 90 min. time slot.  Since only one person has to book the court, you might get people booking it for two-hours, one hour by each player, if you only allow a 60 min. time slot.  Then again, I don't usually have problems when I go.

"Someone earlier said you can't cancel online but that is not true.  Right at the top of the scheduling page is an option to "cancel a reservation""

Oh man!  I never noticed that before.  I even asked the person I talked to on the phone one time if we could cancel online and she said there currently was no way to do that.  This was very recently too.  How long has that feature been available?  Thanks for the tip!

For me, I had to click on "my reservations" (which I have never done before) and then I could cancel it on the next page that showed all my reservations.

I like the 90 minute time slot as well.  I use it regularly in the mornings.  I think, like someone else mentioned, that if it was done away with there would be people reserving one hour each of two players playing.  I'd be okay with it being limited to 60 min time slots during the busy times though.

Leigh

Keep,

Thanks

I've been pondering whether I agree or disagree that league players should get special considerations.  I'm not sure.  At first I was like, "No way!  I pay membership dues just like they do", but then I was thinking that they DO pay an extra fee to be in the league right?  I don't know...  I guess I would deal with it if they were given an extra day ahead of time to schedule.

At the same time, as long as you know 4 days in advance what day and time you want to play, it shouldn't be too hard to get a court.  I've been checking the schedules at about 6 AM for the farthest day schedulable, and at that time it's usually pretty open for the evening slots.

The reverse side of 'no time to play leagues' is that it's just as hard for us beginners to schedule courts in the evening when leagues are going on.  There are a few people I play with who can only play on weekday evenings after work.  When I play in the morning it is easy to schedule a court, but when I play in the evening we have to really plan ahead and grab the courts ASAP, otherwise we know we won't be able to get one.

ETA:  I do usually only schedule an hour in the evening slots though, because I'm aware that it's a busy time.

Leigh

I have been out of action since spring so not sure what enhancements have been made already but the 30-60-90 is a lesser concern than people reserving courts and not showing up. more than 50% of the time when I know that there is someone playing before me or after me, the courts are empty, although that time slot is not available online because someone has taken it and I suppose failed to cancel it.

It is more than a mere annoyance, from a club operations perspective you have a limited capacity to serve the membership i.e. number of courts available and number of hours available, especially in the peak or semipeak hours.

what I would suggest is that if people are not checking in and have courts reserved that some action is taken. I understand that things happen, work firedrills, family emergencies, traffic, etc, but the amount of time courts are booked by no-shows was rather strange atleast in spring.