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What is Tennis Tipping?
In the game, participants pick the winners of all main draw matches and are placed in a knock-out system. That means each participant plays a different participant and whoever predicted the winner of most matches correctly, moves on to the next round. The same applies for doubles, but you're in a team format and your scores are combined.
In case of a tie, SR/TB rules will decide who moves on to the next round.
Code of Conduct:
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Retirements:
In case a player (i.e. the actual WTA Player) retires in a match, the match WILL count in TT, as long as the first point has been played, but they do NOT COUNT for SRs or for TB Points decisions but they do count for TBs in which players or teams picked different winners.
For the amount of sets given to the winner (all matches where the players picked the loser) they will count as long as the winner is already a set up or the match went to a 3rd set before the retirement.
We will also give out "set given to the winner" points for matches in which both picked the right winner as long as the player who retired was up a set or the match went to a 3rd set before the retirement.
If players are replaced by a lucky loser after the start of Tennis Tipping, these matches will be cancelled.
Draw Sizes:
Tournaments should have a draw which has the same size as the real one. Qualifying draws should have room for 16 players in weeks with 4 TT tournaments.
PM and P5 tournaments obviously have bigger draws, specific rules should be decided by the board members.
TT Schedule for WTA tournaments:
2-days QF: For tournaments with a 32 Player MD Field and 7 MD days (Monday-Sunday) we will have 2 days of QF.
So if there is a Sunday final, Qualies starts Saturday and MD starts Monday.
If the first day of MD (1st round Singles) has less than four matches in total or no main draw matches at all, then 1st round becomes a 2-day round.
TT Schedule for ITF tournaments:
Sunday (if the real tournament starts on Sunday already) ~ Singles Q1
Monday ~ Singles Q1 (if the real tournament starts on Monday) + Singles FQR and Doubles Q1
Tuesday ~ Singles MD 1st round + Doubles FQR
Wednesday ~ Singles 2nd round + Doubles MD 1st round
Thursday ~ Singles and Doubles QFs
Friday ~ Singles and Doubles SFs
Saturday ~ Singles and Doubles Finals (Day 1/2)
Sunday ~ Singles and Doubles Finals (Day 2/2)
TT Schedule at Grand Slams:
Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open:
(GS Qualifying R1) ~ TT Qualifying Round 1 Singles
(GS Qualifying R2) ~ TT Qualifying Round 2 Singles and TT Qualifying Round 1 Doubles
(GS Qualifying R3) ~ TT Qualifying Final Round Singles and TT Qualifying Round 2 Doubles
(GS R128 Day 1) ~ TT R128 Singles and TT Qualifying Final Round Doubles
(GS R128 Day 2) ~ TT R64 Singles and TT R64 Doubles
(GS R64) ~ R32 Singles and Doubles
(GS R32) ~ TT R16 Singles and Doubles
(GS R16) ~ TT QF Singles and Doubles
(GS QF) ~ TT SF Singles and Doubles
(GS SF & F) ~ TT Final Singles and Doubles
Roland Garros:
(GS Qualifying R1) ~ TT Qualifying Round 1 Singles
(GS Qualifying R2) ~ TT Qualifying Round 2 Singles and TT Qualifying Round 1 Doubles
(GS Qualifying R3) ~ TT Qualifying Final Round Singles and TT Qualifying Round 2 Doubles
(GS R128 Day 1) ~ TT R128 Singles (Day 1/2) and TT Qualifying Final Round Doubles (Day 1/2)
(GS R128 Day 2) ~ TT R128 Singles (Day 2/2) and TT Qualifying Final Round Doubles (Day 2/2)
(GS R128 Day 3) ~ TT R64 Singles and TT R64 Doubles
(GS R64) ~ R32 Singles and Doubles
(GS R32) ~ TT R16 Singles and Doubles
(GS R16) ~ TT QF Singles and Doubles
(GS QF) ~ TT SF Singles and Doubles
(GS SF & F) ~ TT Final Singles and Doubles
Tournament Managers:
Please check for further informaton: Tennis Tipping General Rules 2023 | TT index in post #6
Rankings System:
Best of 20. This means that your best 20 results throughout the year will be counted for your ranking. When two or more players have the same number of ranking points, the tie for the ranking position will be decided according to the following priorities:
Code:
a) The player with the most total points from all tournaments
b) The player with the fewest number of tournaments
c) The highest number of points from one single tournament, then if needed, the second highest and so on
d) name (for singles; doubles players stay tied)In 2023 every WTA 250 level tournaments will have space for 2 Special Exempts (1 for Singles and 1 for Doubles)
Challenger Race Standings from certain periods will determine the holders of the Spots.
Please check for further informaton: 2023 Special Exempts
All managers of WTA 250 level Tournaments should have space for 1 SE for Singles and Doubles.
SE holders in singles have to request their SE before the first deadline is over (always 6pm CET/CEST on Sunday)
SE holders in doubles have to request their SE before the final deadline is over (same deadlines as for regular entries)
If they don´t request their SE in time or they don't need their SE as they are in MD anyway, then the SE gets cleared and the 1st person/team from the Q-List moves into the Main Draw.
In case of a tie between players/teams the order will be determined by this:
1. The highest number of points from one single challenger tournament during the period, then if needed, the second highest and so on
2. Number of challengers played during the period
3. Challenger points earned during the year
4. Number of challengers played during the year
5. TT ranking (for Doubles combined ranking)
Wild Cards 2023:
Defending champions in singles and doubles will get a Main Draw WC at all WTA tournaments (incl Grand Slams) but there won´t be any Wild Cards for WTA 125 and Challenger tournaments.
For every 5 tournaments managed successfully in a year, the manager will get a WC in SINGLES in any WTA level tournament of his choice (except the season-ending tournaments, obviously). The WC spot can only be used in the same calendar year in which it was received.
People who want to use a WC have to request it in the respective tournament thread (same deadlines as for regular entries) and the tournament manager has to inform the TT Board about it, which will make sure that the WC is justified.
The WC spot for Singles will be cleared once the 1st deadline of a tournament is over, the WC spot for doubles will be cleared once the final deadline (and 1st and only deadline for doubles) is over, in this case the first player/team from the qualifying list moves into Main Draw.
Singles Champions of 2022: Singles 2022
Doubles Champions of 2022: Doubles 2022
Determining Lucky Losers:
In the end of the final qualifying round, managers should post a list of the losers who had the highest scores in that round (If the score is the same you should use the TB/SR system to order the players). Those are the first players to be called in case someone doesn’t send his/her picks.
Players/Teams who had a BYE in 1st Q-round and then didn´t send for FQR will be at the end of the LL List only (behind those who sent and lost in 1st q-round)! The order of those in the LL list will be decided by ranking then.
If both players fail to send picks in a FQR match, then the best loser of the Final Q-Round automatically qualifies for the MD as well.
Deadline for Picks:
The deadline for accepting picks is the time at which the matches are scheduled to start. NO PICKS will be accepted if they are sent after that point.
Example:
Managers are allowed to make the deadline earlier if they are not able to post the differences at the time when the play starts. However, all picks which are sent between "manager's deadline" and real start of play have to be counted. When the differences are posted, you can't change your picks anymore.
Example:
If a manager put a "wrong" deadline and play already started before manager deadline is over, then all picks which are sent between the real deadline and the manager deadline will count as well but matches which already started won´t be counted.
Note that Tournament countback is not always useable in this case.
This rule won´t affect matches in which both players already sent their picks before the real deadline has passed, in this case all matches will count.
If the start of play is not defined exactly then deadline to send picks should be the time when the first match of the event starts.
Challengers:
Top 30 singles players and top 30 doubles players are now considered to be "late entrants" for all challenger/futures tt tournaments. the order of LE priority which they gain will be dependent on their reverse rankings (ie world #30 has first LE priority, world #1 has last)
Top 30 Late Entries are not able to be seeded (Qualifying or Main Draw)
If there aren´t enough players in the draw and Top 30 Late Entries have to be seeded then they should be seeded in reversed order.
The eligible player must apply for a PR in the „Protected Ranking“ thread before re-entering TT competition.
That means that the player has to post in the Protected Ranking thread to apply for a PR there before he commits to any tournament.
A player has one year from the date he/she returns to competition to use the Protected Ranking and may enter a maximum of 2 Grand Slams and 2 Premier Mandatories as part of his/her Protected Ranking Tournaments.
A player out for more than a year will now be entitled to 12 tournaments to use Special Ranking.
(if you are out from 6 months to 1 year you will get 8 chances to use your SR)
For seedings only the actual ranking of a player matters and players don't have to use their PR if they get into the draws with their actual ranking anyway.
Number of commitments:
Minimal number of commitments for a tournament to run is 16 players for singles and/or 8 teams for doubles
If a tournament still has less than 8 entries for doubles on Friday before the tournament starts, then the Manager should pair up players to form a 8th team on his own.
However managers are not allowed to pair up players automatically, if they committed explicit for singles only, in this case the managers should ask for their permission first.
Events which have less than 16/8 players/teams at Saturday 6pm CET/CEST (one day before the final deadline) will be cancelled and the players from the cancelled event will be automatically transferred to another ITF tournament in the same week. (Managers should inform the board about it in this case)
Billie Jean King Cup:
Players who play Billie Jean King Cup are allowed to play a Challenger or WTA tournament in the same week.
TB/SR Rules (for detailed information click HERE):
SR RULE: Every match on the OOP will be a SR match
You CAN’T send a SR in your TB different from the SR you decided to send first. If you send a SR different from your TB (Example: 2-0 6-3 4-6 7-6) that pick will be counted but the SR/TB won’t.
CB/”Looking Forward”: In Case everything is tied after the use of the TB’s use tournament Countback (CB) as a manner of untying things. If, after the use of CB everything is still tied the players will send for R2 of their current tournament AND for the next day's OOP of whichever other tournament is selected.
Where two players play each other and both fail to send picks in singles, then both are out and next round opponent gets walkover (except for first round of Q or MD, of course).
If you have a bye at any stage of the tournament, you should still send picks because if you do not, this will go against you in case of countback later on in the tournament.
Number of Events Per Week:
One can only play one event per week which includes (giving) walkovers or being replaced by an ALT.
It is not allowed to play another tournament during the same week, after being accepted into the draw of any of the tournaments. That includes withdrawing after the draw is made and not sending picks.
Alternates are allowed to send picks and (in case they don't get in) play another tournament that week.
Sending picks for someone else:
Not allowed
Commitments:
Entries will be based on ranking (rankings from two weeks before the start of the tournament)
Tournament thread posted not later than Sunday (two weeks before start of the tournament)
Players have at least 8 days (from Sunday till Sunday) to commit to the tournament and this will be done by ranking.
First entry deadline for Singles is always Sunday 6 pm current time in Europe (CET or CEST).
The day before TT qualifying begins is the 2nd deadline for changes (the exact time is up to the tournament manager) and the draws are made after that.
Doubles players have ca. two weeks (from the Sunday when the thread is opened until the 2nd and final deadline) to commit to the tournament.
There aren’t Late Entries in doubles anymore (except for the Top30 LEs in challengers obviously), everyone who commits after the Final deadline for doubles will be considered as ALT.
A single entry post by one of the members of a doubles team is enough to commit the whole team to the doubles competition.
The post of the commitment must be clear and made by one of the player of the team.
Example for Antwerp (Quali starts 7th and MD starts 9th February):
Late Entries:
Everyone who commits after the first entry deadline in singles will be considered as Late Entry.
LEs, who commit after the 1st deadline will go to the bottom of the Entry List (at ITF tournaments behind the Top 30 entries which are automatically counted as LEs as well).
Late entries should be sorted according to the commitment order.
Everyone who commits after the Final deadline will be ALT.
Normal Late Entries (not top 30 LEs) CANNOT be seeded, unless there aren't enough players in the draw.
Example for 32 MD:
Managers have to extend the final deadline only, if there are still spots available in the Main Draw after the second deadline, the first deadline is always Sunday 6 PM CET/CEST!
Maximum number of direct Main Draw entries (incl. SE/WC) is always 28 (14 for doubles), for bigger draws 56,112 or 116 (28 or 56 for doubles)
All further players have to be in the Qualifying Draw, even if that means that players in the Q-Draw get a direct BYE into the MD (in this case players obviously do not gain any points for qualifying).
If I have less than 32 players at the latest possible commitment deadline then highest ranked players on the Entry List will receive a BYE (example: 20 entrants in a 32 draw size 1st round => The 8 seeds + players ranked 9-12 (Top 30 LEs are always at the bottom of that List) get a BYE
Double commitment (player commits to two different tournaments in the same week):
Before the 1st deadline on Sunday, 6pm CET players can commit to any tournament, withdraw from there and commit to another tournament without being a LE.
After the 1st deadline players have 48 hours time to withdraw from events of their choice.
If the player is still on two different Entry Lists once the Withdrawal Deadline (Tuesday, 6pm CET/CEST) is over, the player receives an official warning from the TT board.
Is the infraction noticed before the tournaments start, only the first commitment will be valid and no punishment is applied.
If the double commitment is not noticed by anyone before the draws are made, points gained by the player in any of the two tournaments will not be considered and the player will be replaced with ALTs/LLs (only possible if the player didn´t win a round already in that tournament).
If a player, who received an official warning before, is again on two different Entry Lists once the Withdrawal deadline is over, then this player gets disqualified immediately and won´t be allowed to play any tournament in that week.
After that the warning expires and the user will receive a warning again before getting disqualified.
All warnings expire at the end of the year and all players will start from zero again once the new season starts with tournament 1.
A list of players who received a warning or got disqualified can be found here
Challengers in 2nd week of Grand Slams and Indian Wells/Miami:
Players who reached Quarterfinals in Singles and/or Doubles at Grand Slams are automatically out of all ITF tournaments which take place in the 2nd week of the events mentioned above.
The ITFs in the 2nd week of Indian Wells and Miami will have Final Deadline on Sunday 6pm CET as well, like all other ITF tournaments, which means that all players who reached 4th round in singles or/and 3rd round in doubles in Indian Wells/Miami are automatically out of these ITF tournaments.
Missing Someone's Commitment:
In the case that you miss someone's commitment while managing a tournament after the OOP has been posted, he/she will be topping the ALT or LL lists. The manager should notify the players that are involved.
Commit in someone else:
You can't commit in someone else. You can always commit in only yourself in singles and your doubles team. Difference is in doubles where you commit in your team and your partner doesn't have to confirm it.
Alternates/Lucky Losers:
If someone's opponent doesn't send his/her picks, the opponent gets a walkover.
If there's ALT/LL available, then this ALT/LL replaces the opponent who didn't send his/her picks.
LL1/ALT1 replaces opponent of the lowest ranked player in the draw (note that Top 30 LEs always count as lowest ranked players in ITF draws , in reversed order from 30 down to 1 as lowest possible ranking)
LL4/ALT4 ( if there are 4 people on the list, for example) replaces opponent of the highest ranked player in the draw (note that Top 30 LEs always count as lowest ranked players in ITF draws , in reversed order from 30 down to 1 as lowest possible ranking)
Example (with 3 LL):
Matches where neither send should be replaced first:
ALT#1/LL#1 vs ALT#2/LL#2
LL#1 vs LL#4 and LL#2 vs LL#3 if there are two such matches etc.
And then rest of the LL are placed against the players who did send (but opponents did not)
If more spots than ALTs/LLs available, then place ALTs/LLs in ranking order.
That means that the highest ranked player of the Entry List, whose opponent didn't send, gets a walkover.
Note that Top 30 LEs in Challengers are always at the bottom of the Entry List and therefore don't get a walkover even if they have a better ranking than none Top 30 players.
Where there is a 1st round match in which BOTH players/teams do not send picks, the following will happen:
1) 2 LLs or 2 ALTs will replace the players
2) where only 1 LL/ALT is available, that LL replaces one of the players, the No.1 seed's opponent replaces the other player, and the No.1 seed receives a walkover
3) where no LL/ALT is available, the opponents of both the No.1 and No.2 seeds move to that part of the draw and both No.1 and No.2 seeds receive a walkover
4) If the No.1 or No.2 seeds didn´t send picks then the opponents of No.3, No.4 or No.5 seeds etc. will move to that part of the draw and No.3/No.4/No.5 seeds will receive a walkover
5) If more matches are in the same circumstances, the opponents of the lower seeded or highest placed unseeded players of the Entry List will fill in the draw in the appropriate order
Example: (for further examples please click HERE)!
Singles/Doubles (1st round matches):
Teams/Players only get replaced on a 1st round.
Teams already get replaced if one player of a team did not send picks, if there aren´t LLs/ALTs available then the opponents receive a walkover, this also counts when the 1st round is a two days round.
Teams/Players can only get replaced on a 1st day of a two days 1st round
Singles/Doubles (Non 1st round matches):
Matches in which 3 out of 4 players sent their picks will still be played as one sender can beat two senders (teams are not automatically out anymore, if one member of the team did not send picks)
Matches in which only one player of each team sent picks will be played as one vs. one
If none of the Team/Players sent their picks, then both Teams/Players are out of the tournament and next round opponent gets walkover
Teams/Players who did not send picks are allowed to stay in the draw and still have a chance to win whenever there is a two days round (unless it´s a 1st round matches obviously)
Sending Picks:
You MUST send picks to the manager in order for them to count.
If you attempt to send picks to the manager and the PM fails, then your picks will count as long as you can provide evidence that the picks were sent in time. If you cannot, then such picks will not count. If you send to your doubles partner, but forget to send to the manager, these picks will NOT count.
Note that sending picks in an incorrect format can lead to point penalties, you can find more information about this on Page 3 of the Rules Thread.
Picks must be sent to the person(s) nominated in the OOP. If the player sent to a different person and the picks are forwarded to the right persons then those picks still cannot be accepted.
Picks will still count if the player sent them only to one of the two persons nominated in the OOP (only possible at combined events with two managers)
Picks can't be accepted where a player attempts to send picks to the manager but spells the name wrongly in cases where the manager has posted the OOP.
Example:
If the manager forgets to mention the playing round in the OOP (e.g. picks count for Doubles Round 1), the OOP of the next day will be split. This will only be done in the first round of the tournament (qualifying and main draw). Only if all players sent, the original OOP can be used.
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