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IMPORTANT DOUBLES TEAMS AND PAIRINGS
IF you wish to play doubles, you absolutely must sign up for doubles on line before the entry closes. If you sign up without a partner, a doubles partner will be drawn at random for you. If you wish to play doubles with a specific doubles partner, both you and your doubles partner must have each other claimed as doubles partner on line before the entry deadline.
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Multiple Tournament/Division Entry
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PLAYER SELECTION & SEEDING
This tournament will use a combination of USTA/Midwest Points Per Round and Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) for player
selection and seeding. Players will be selected for the tournament in the following order: 1 - 52 Players based on the most recent USTA/Midwest Standings List in the age division of the tournament 2 - 12 Players based on UTR
Players will be seeded for the tournament in the following order: 1 - Top 8 seeds based on UTR 2- Seeds 9-16 based on USTA/Midwest Standings List
For more information about UTR please click the following link:
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No refunds after player selection is complete.
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First round report time information will be available on the Friday before the tournament begins by 6PM.
Come back to this page and click on the blue “Future Match Info Report” to find out your first time as well as your Win/Loss time (W/L). Please be careful when reading this. The W/L times are in parentheses. Players from the same district will not play each other first round unless an alternate fills a spot or more than half the draw is from the same district.
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SEEDED PLAYER WITHDRAWS AFTER START TIMES ARE POSTED
The Tournament Director is not required to re-seed his draw if a withdraw occurs after Friday at 12 noon before the tournament begins. The Alternate may be inserted on the draw line where the seed withdrew and no match times are affected for the remaining players. If the Tournament Director would like to re-seed the draw and change start times after the Friday, 12 noon deadline, he may. It is not required.
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POINTS PER ROUND
This tournament carries with it Level 3 USTA/Midwest points per round. The doubles division carries with it Level 4 USTA National points per round. For more information on USTA/Midwest points per round, please visit the following link:
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MATCH SCORING
The Singles Main & Consolation Draws will play best of 3 tiebreak sets with a 10-point super tiebreak in lieu of a third set. The Doubles Draw will play an 8-Game Proset. Singles: 64 FIC draw. Doubles: 32 Single Elimination draw.
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ORDER OF PLAY
TUESDAY: Play begins at 8am. Doubles followed by Main Draw Singles Rd of 64 followed by the Qualifying Rd of 32 FIC Singles . Doubles may follow. WEDNESDAY: Play begins at 9am. Doubles followed by Main Draw Singles Rd of 32. FIC Singles will play the Rd of 32 FIC, Qualifying Rd of 16. Doubles may follow. THURSDAY: Play begins at 9am. Doubles followed by Main Draw Singles Rd of 16 and Quarters. FIC Singles will play the Rd of 16 and Qualifying Quarters. Doubles may follow. FRIDAY: Play begins at 8am. Doubles followed by Main Draw Semi-Finals and Finals or 3/4 Playoff. FIC Singles will play the Quarters, Semi-Finals and Finals. Doubles may follow.
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Practice/Warm-up Courts:
Please call FCTC front desk at 815-708-0901 for information. The court fee will be $30/hour per player
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STRINGING
Stringing will be available on a first come first serve basis at the Forest City Tennis Center (7801 E. State Street Rockford IL 61108) . Club phone is 815-708-0901. The sooner you drop off your racket for stringing, the sooner we can get them back to you. The club will open at 7:00 am on weekdays. Due to the limited selection of string FCTC has, please bring your own string. Stringing price: $21 with your own string; $21 + String with string from FCTC
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TOURNAMENT HOTEL INFORMATION
Courtyard Rockford 7676 East State St., Rockford. (815) 397-6222 $94 for standard rooms with a King size bed $99 for standard rooms with 2 queen size beds
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PLAY SITE LOCATIONS & PRACTICE COURTS
The tournament will be held at FCTC, 7801 E State St, Rockford IL 61107.
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PLAYER CONTACT INFORMATION POLICY
If you do not provide an email address and/or cell number(s) when you register for this tournament, then we will not be able to notify you about any possible changes in the tournament.
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PROVIDE YOUR FEEDBACK
If you have questions about USTA/Midwest tournaments, please email jrtourney@midwest.usta.com. Also, please take a minute to tell us what you thought about this tournament using the following link:
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regulations while also providing excellent customer service to players and
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criticism directly to NITA using the following email link: feedback@northernillinoistennis.com. Thank you!
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Players are selected manually by the tournament director after the close of registration.
Entry to this tournament is open to all USTA members. Entries must be submitted by Monday, December 19, 2016 11:59:00 PM Central Time. Only USTA members can register online if available.
In the future, you can jump straight to this tournament by entering the tournament identification number: 850012116 from the searchable schedule homepage.
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