sports dictionary Tennis - UTESHILOVKA
Tennis UTESHILOVKA an additional competition that involves players who lost in the main tournament. One of the variants of "consolation" involves drawing all the places in the tournament grid. This system is similar to the improved Olympic version. For example, if the size of the tournament grid is 16, then you need to determine the tennis player for each position. This means that the players who lose in the first round find out their place in the "consolation" (from 9 to 16). Those who are eliminated in the second round compete for 5th 8th places and so on Also, "consolation" can only be held for players who lost in the first round. In this case, after the start stage of the competition, two parallel grids are drawn up: for the main tournament and for the consolation tournament. This option is often found at veteran competitions.