Sunshine State players from across all ability levels will be in action at the USTA National Campus this weekend as part of the USTA Florida Tri-Level Sectional Championships. Matches get underway the morning of Saturday, Jan. 25 and will conclude the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 27.

While a total of six sectional crowns will be up for grabs over the course of the event, the headliners are the men’s and women’s 3.5/4.0/4.5 competitions; the men’s and women’s squads prevailing from that division will book their spot in the 2020 BNP Paribas Open Tri-Level Championships March 20-22.

Saturday and Sunday will feature teams going head-to-head in round-robin flight play. Each dual match is slated to consist of three courts of doubles, which will be the best two-of-three tiebreak sets with a match tiebreak in lieu of a full third set. A crew needs to take at least two of those courts in order to claim the dual victory.

Three sectional champions will be crowned Sunday afternoon with the other three continuing on to Monday. The women’s 2.5/3.0/3.5 division is made up of just four crews in one flight, with each team playing the other three only once. For the men’s 3.5/4.0/4.5 competition, eight squads have been split up into two flights; the two flight winners will advance to the divisional final. Just three teams have entered the women’s 4.0/4.5/5.0 competition, putting them into a double round-robin scenario over Saturday and Sunday.

The men’s 3.0/3.5/4.0 division has seven clubs in the mix for the title to being the weekend; three of those have been placed in Flight 1, which will also utilize the double round-robin format to determine its championship dual representative, while the remaining four are in Flight 2. The women’s side will be much busier thanks to 14 teams heading to the National Campus to compete, starting with three flights. The trio of flight winners will automatically advance to the semifinal round plus the top second-place finisher, which will earn the wild card slot.

Rounding out the competitions is the women’s 3.5/4.0/4.5 division, with 13 squads opening the event as sectional champion hopefuls. The division also features three flights, meaning the flight winners plus  a wild card entrant will move on to Monday’s playoff rounds.

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