Major Regulation Changes for 2010

National Regulations:

1.   A player with a valid NTRP Computer (C) or Benchmark (B) rating or granted Automatic Appeal rating of a “C” is not subject to a self-rate grievance.  Any other player is subject to a self-rate grievance

2.   Each player shall have reached eighteen (18) years of age prior to, or during, the calendar year in which such player plays his/her first local league match.

3.       So. . . who can be dynamically disqualified?  NTRP published level followed by A (appeal-all), S (self-rated), M (mixed exclusive), T (tournament exclusive), D (dynamic rating-usually an Early Start Rating moved down) in the Adult and Senior divisions through the Section Championships.

4.   Adult, Senior and Mixed teams that qualify to advance to National Championships, but do not participate, will follow the Move-up/Split-up Regulations.

5.   Mixed Doubles Division will now include a 2.5 entry level for local through Section play.  This is a straight level and may not be combined to form 5.0 teams.

6.   Players that are NTRP disqualified while participating in another division after qualifying for Adult, Senior, Mixed, or Super Senior National Championships will not be allowed to advance to the National Championship unless participating at the higher level.

Southern Regulations:

3.04D(1)  Local. If a self-rated player or a player with a granted medical appeal is disqualified for that particular level of play, all matches by that individual player at that level shall be considered losses and scored (6-0, 6-0).  All players who have computer rated appeals (A), dynamic ratings (D), mixed exclusive (M) or tournament ratings (T) who are subject to disqualification, will not be subject to match reversal if disqualified.  Players not disqualified by conclusion of local league round robin play will be eligible to compete in the entire local playoff.  Dynamic ratings will be calculated at the end of the local playoff to inform any disqualified players that they may not advance to the state championships.  Points earned by disqualified players will stand.  Local play occurring at the State Championships: Players will be permitted to play in the entire event, but if a disqualification occurs when the ratings are run at the conclusion of the tournament, those matches will be handled in the following manner: If the play is a Round Robin, matches for the DQ’d players are reversed.  Matches played during a playoff, by winners advancing from multiple Round Robins are not reversed.

USTA Georgia Regulations:

3.01H(5)d   Players who qualify for the Georgia State Championship may advance on (two) adult teams and (one) senior team.