2010
USTA
USTA
A. STATE
REGULATIONS COMMITTEE
The Kentucky Adult League Committee, through
recommendations from the Local League Coordinators, establishes the Kentucky
Tri-Level League Regulations. The Kentucky Adult League Committee and USTA
Kentucky Board of Directors grants final approval of the USTA Tri-Level League
Tennis Kentucky Regulations.
B. LOCAL
LEAGUES
1. New National
Regulation for Adult Leagues: 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.
2. Local Leagues shall be approved by USTA
3. Local League administrators, including Local
League Coordinators and Community Tennis Associations, are responsible for the
administration and the promotion of the USTA Tri-Level League Tennis Program in
their Local League area.
4. Local League Appointments
a. The
Community Tennis Association (CTA) submits candidates to the SLC for an
interview.
b. The SLC
makes the decision as to which candidate is acceptable.
c. The Local League Coordinator shall be appointed
for a period of one year and is subject to a yearly renewal as well as entering
into a service contract with USTA Kentucky. USTA
5. Local League Coordinators are required to
follow the current job description, which is subject to change each league
year.
6. Local Leagues are required and have the
authority to compose regulations that preside over local play. Local League
regulations shall not conflict with any existing National, Southern, or
7. Prior to the start of the Local League Season,
the Kentucky Adult League Committee must approve the Local League Rules and
Regulations. Local League Rules and Regulations must be distributed to Team
Captains before the league season begins, preferably during the Captain’s meeting.
Copies of such regulations may also be available on Local League websites and
by email to team captains.
8. Local League Coordinators and/or Schedulers
may not captain any USTA League Tennis team. Local League Coordinators and/or
Schedulers may be a non-playing captain, as long as it is at a different
division than they are playing.
9. A
CTA may add a nominal fee to their existing league fee, but the fee must first
be approved by the SLC and the Kentucky Adult League Committee. The CTA must
request in writing prior to the registration being opened for each league
and/or season that it intends to add a nominal fee, specifying the amount,
which must be approved by the SLC and the Kentucky Adult League Committee. Once
approved, the amount of the nominal fee as well as how the funds will be used
will be published in the CTA’s Local League Rules and Regulations. At year end,
an accountability form must be submitted to the SLC to document how the funds
were spent.
10. All
Local League teams must play a minimum of three matches. All teams must participate in the same number
of round robins as every team in the flight.
11. Each
Local League is required to have a minimum of two teams in a division, if there
is only one team signed up for a division, they will be required to join
another league that has team(s) of that same division.
12. All teams participating in the 2010 USTA
Tri-Level League Tennis season must be registered in TennisLink by their Local League
registration deadline. A team shall consist of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of
12 players of the same gender eligible to compete at a specific level of
competition. Team members shall not have a higher NTRP rating than the maximum
NTRP rating of the division in which they are competing. The following divisions are available for the
2010 Championship Year.
C. USTA
MEMBERSHIP
1. All players participating in USTA Tri-Level
League Tennis must be a current member of the USTA for the entire league
season.
2. Participants competing in State
Championships are required to have a current USTA membership throughout the
entire event.
D. SELF-RATING
The process
of self-rating shall be administered by TennisLink and the Southern Sectional
office. Players who do not have a computer rating on file in TennisLink shall
self-rate in accordance with the National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP)
Guidelines and declare their self-rating on TennisLink when registering for a
team. Omission of information regarding a player’s tennis history will subject
the player, the captain and/or others who condoned inaccurate self-rating to
sanctions and disqualification. USTA
3.01D(2)
E. FEES
1. State and Local League fees, as well as
Championship fees, shall be reviewed prior to each league year and may change
due to increased/decreased cost. Final fees shall be established by the USTA
Kentucky Management Committee acting upon the recommendation of the SLC and the
Kentucky Adult League Committee.
2. 2010 Minimum Fees:
a. Local USTA Tri-Level League Tennis $17.00 (KY Head Tax $8.00)
b.
State Championship Tri-Level League Tennis $22.00 (Entry Fee)
c.
Tri-State Tri-Level Championship $30.00
(Entry Fee)
F. LOCAL
TEAM ENTRIES/PLAYER PARTICIPATION
1. Local Leagues may limit the maximum number
of players on a roster to less than 12 which is the state maximum. This number
must be published in the Local League Regulations. STA 3.01B
2. Each local league shall accept entry to
teams of which the majority of the players are comprised of team members from
another area. A local league cannot reject a player from another area.
3. The team winning the majority of individual
matches shall be awarded one team point.
4. Any Local League divided into flights must
establish playoff regulations and the format for determination of local league
winners. Playoff regulations must be published prior to start of the league
season.
5. Local leagues shall determine the procedures
and/or penalties if a team forfeits an entire team match during local league
play. This
must be included in the Local League
Regulations. STA 3.01H(2)
6. Local leagues shall determine the procedures
for rescheduling of team matches including inclement weather procedures.
7. Scores must be reported in TennisLink within
48 hours of the completed team match.
After match scores have been entered on TennisLink, they must be
confirmed by the opposing team within 48 hours of the initial entry or the
initial score will automatically be considered valid. Local Leagues may determine any penalty for a
team not adhering to these guidelines. USTA
1.05
8. A player may play at their actual NTRP level
and one NTRP level up in a local league provided his/her rating does not exceed
the rating at that division. STA
3.01H(5)b (ex. Player rated 3.5 may play 3.5 and 4.0, but not 4.5)
9. A player may play on multiple teams as long
as they are in different divisions.
Example: Player A, 3.5 can play
in Adult Division I 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 and Adult Division II 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and Senior Division I 3.0, 3.5, 4.0. Players who qualify for advancement to State
Championships will be eligible to represent one adult and one senior team or
one senior and one super senior team.
Players are not allowed to represent more than one division within the
adult league at the State Championships.
There will be no concessions made for scheduling.
10. Last day for local
league match play for the USTA Tri-Level League Tennis season is August 9, 2010.
G. NTRP RATINGS
2010 USTA
Tri-Level League will not have any affect on NTRP ratings.
H. TENNISLINK
1. All players are required to register for
Local League play in
2. For any team in which a player is deleted
from the roster more than 45 days after initial registration and requests a
refund, the captain must submit the reason for removal in writing to the Local
League Coordinator, who will then submit the statement to the SLC for approval.
The SLC has the authority to deny reimbursement of registration fees to the
Local League in question.
3. Players promoted during any USTA Tri-Level
League to the next level of play must play at the new level and if necessary
join a new Tri-Level team. Local League Coordinators will provide
assistance in placing promoted players on existing teams.
I. STATE
CHAMPIONSHIPS
1.
A team cannot advance to the State Championships
without playing a minimum of three local league matches
2.
Local leagues with the following number of teams
per local season may qualify to advance to the State Championships:
Adult/Senior/Super Senior |
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2 teams |
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6 - 10 teams |
3 teams |
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11+ teams |
4 teams |
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3. The Tournament Committee will determine the
number of teams needed to complete the draw. If it is determined that additional
teams are needed to complete the draw in any division, a blind draw will be
made to determine which Local League will receive the wildcard.
4. The
wildcard selection process is based on a draw, which operates as follows: all
local areas are eligible to participate in the potential wildcard drawing and
will receive one chance each to be drawn as the wildcard. The selected local
area for the wildcard may go to the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd
place local league finishers, if none of these teams accepts, then the decision
to offer a wild card for that area reverts back to the Tournament Committee.
5. Teams should be expected to play on any USTA
approved surface at the
6. Teams progressing to the Kentucky State Championships are determined by
placement after local league play. Local leagues are expected to send their top
finishers. A local league may send the next team in their local standings to
represent their local league. Any deviation from this must be approved by the
Kentucky Adult League Committee (ALC).
7. A minimum of 6 team members who were on the
final roster and at levels eligible to field each court in their division must
be available to compete at the
8. A $100 deposit will be required of all teams
at each
9. Any team forfeiting an entire team match
will forfeit this deposit. Any team that withdraws from the tournament after
the schedule is published shall forfeit their deposit and registration fees and
a grievance may be filed against the
entire team.
10. All teams are expected to play all
scheduled matches. Any team not complying will be subject to grievance
procedures. In accordance with USTA League Tennis Regulations, any team
forfeiting an entire team match for ANY REASON will result in all
matches of that team previously played or to be played to be declared null and
void. If all teams in contention for the Championship have already played the
forfeiting team in good faith, the matches stand as played.
11. All matches at the Championship will be the
best of two sets and the Set Tiebreak shall be used at 6 – all in each
set. In lieu of the third set, a Match
Tiebreak shall be played (the first to 10 winning by 2). There will be a two minute set break at the
end of each set with no coaching. The
Match Tiebreak shall be scored as 1 set for tiebreak procedures.
12. All tiebreaks
will be played using the Coman Tiebreak Format.
13. Match winners shall be determined by the
winner of most courts and shall receive 1 point for each match win. In the event of a tie, the tie shall be
broken by the first of the following procedures that does so:
Individual
Matches. Winner of the most matches
in the entire competition.
Sets.
Loser of
the fewest number of sets.
Games. Loser of the fewest number of
games.
Head
to Head. Winner of head-to-head
match.
A method to be determined by the
Championships Committee. Procedure
to be announced prior to commencement of Championship competition.
14. State Championship Dates: All dates and
Locations are subject to change by the Tournament Committee
USTA
August 27 – 29, 2010
Entry Deadline – August 18, 2010
J. TRI-STATE CHAMPIONSHPS
1.
This championship is pending at this time. Information regarding the championship will
be updated in this regulation by the end of February, 2010.
2009
KENTUCKY ADULT LEAGUE COMMITTEE
Richard Wimsatt, Chairperson -
Jerry Groce, Past Chairperson -
Esther Hubbard – Purchase Area
Valarie DeSalvo -
Cleo Meaux -
Gerry Canter -
Jonathon Amlung -
Judy Anderson -
Russ Coffey -
Jill Smith –
Kentucky Grievance Committees
& Grievance Appeal Committees are formed as necessary first utilizing
members of the Adult League Committee and Subcommittees and then other
committee members selected by the Adult League Committee Chairperson and Vice
Chairperson.