Winter Southern Closed Indoor Championships

Alternates By Event
Alternates By Event
Tournament Seedings

Director's e-mail RCAME59433@aol.com

You need to sign up for double in the age group that you are playing singles. If there is room in the other age group and we have openings we can try to put you in the doubles age group that you wish to play.

YOU MUST HAVE A PARTNER TO PLAY DOUBLE BY THE 22 OF DECEMBER! 12 NOON IS THE CUT OFF TIME!

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Cash only please! You can reserve courts for the 26th on the19th of December only at Knoxville Racquet Club.You can call on the 19th to reserve on the 26th. Courts will be available at 1 PM..... 865-588-1323.
Court times at KRC, CBRC, UT are available in the morning for the 27th at NO charge 6:15-6:45, 6:45-7:15, 7:15-7:45.

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During check-in on the 26th, you will be able to reserve courts the 27th at the tournament check-in desk for both sites.

On the 27th you will be able to reserve courts for the 28th at your site of play.

Cash only please for reservations. Courts are 20 dollars an hour and can be divided up between players. You must pay for courts at the time of reservation.

Due to Alternate notification, Doubles, Time Changes, and Draw Changes, it is imperative for you to add contact information (email and phone) during the online registration process when asked. So a player does not lose out, please help us and yourselves by offering this contact information. If you did not add your contact information during registration, you can email this information to spatrick1@knowlogy.net at anytime.

Mandatory player check-in on the 26th at Knoxville Racquet Club. Pizza will be served at 5 PM. Check-in will end promptly at 7 PM. Please have your medical release filled out upon arrival.

On Thursday we will only have one person checking in players for the tournament (those that did not come the night before). Obviously this is not enough to check in everyone 30 minutes before their matchtimes. If you are not on your court by your assigned match time, you will be penalized. Because you did not check-in the night before, is no excuse for being late for your match. We cannot predict if there will be 5 people or 50 people waiting to check in when you do. You cannot play your match until you have checked in for the tournament. If there is a line that causes you to be late for your match, unfortunately that will be your problem that could have been avoided. Therefore, we urge all of you to check-in on Wednesday this includes Locals, Commuters and Travelers. We will be here until 7 pm on Wednesday. Thank you for your cooperation.

Hence the name Winter Southern Indoor Championships!

All players must have a copy of a Birth Certificate or Green Card on file in the Southern office prior to match play. If you do not see your name in the search, fax to 770-368-9091 or e-mail to howard@sta.usta.com more info

This is a Southern Level 1-A Tournament. You CANNOT enter two (2) divisions in a Southern Championship. The selection process DOES NOT include the selection of 1/4 from the younger age group in a Southern Championship .

Selection will be by the Southern endorsers

Due to Alternate Notification, time changes, and draw changes, it is important for you to add contact information (E-mail and phone) during the online registration process when asked. This is very important. If you did not do so please E-mail Rcame59433@aol.com asap with this vital info.

Hampton Inn Knoxville West 9128 Executive Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37923 865-693-1101 use group code "WCT" for a group rate of 91.00

Includes a free breakfast

Holiday Inn 304 Cedar Bluff Knoxville, TN 37923 865-693-1011 use group code "WCT" for a group rate of 91.00


Holiday Inn has an indoor/outdoor pool and game room.

All main draw matches will be the best of two out of three set.
All consolation matches will be the best two out of three sets with a tiebreaker in lieu of the third set.The third set tiebreaker will be a match tiebreak played to ten points with a margin of two points.
The consolation will be a full feed in consolation through the quarterfinals.
There will be a playoff for third and fourth place in the main draw.

USTA SOUTHERN SEEDING CRITERIA
USTA Southern Level 1, 2 and 3 Tournaments

SINGLES SEEDING CRITERIA: Seeding shall be done using only the results from most recently published USTA Southern Combined Standings Lists of the division in the order in which players appear on the list.
Definition of Most Recently Published USTA Southern Combined Standings Lists:
• Southern Closed Championships (June) Published List on Monday prior to tournament start
• Southern Championships (other than June) Published List at least 8 days prior to tournament start
• Southern Designated Published List at least 8 days prior to tournament start
• Southern Level 3 Published List used for Selections tournament start

In addition to the list, other criteria to consider:
• Players who have a standing in the next younger age division may be seeded in any group of seeds if they are in the top 10 of the most recently published USTA Southern Combined Standings Lists of any younger age division.
• Players with current top 50 USTA National standing, top 100 ITF ranking, top 1000 ATP or WTA rankings should be considered for seeding.

Please withdraw from tournament using TennisLink before the registration closes.
Got to tennislink and click" register for this tournament"....it will say you are already registered....look to the left of the page....you will see "withdrawal" click on this and enter your confirmation number. This can only be done up untill 11:59 PM at close of registration.

If you withdraw after close of registration you WILL NOT receive a refund !


Keep your confirmation # and you can withdraw on TennisLink If you must withdraw after the entries have closed......THIS MUST BE DONE BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO RCAME59433@aol.com

Please withdraw from tournament using TennisLink before the registration closes.

If you withdraw after close of registration you WILL NOT receive a refund !


If you must withdraw after the entries have closed......THIS MUST BE DONE BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO RCAME59433@aol.com more info

All main draw matches will be the best of two out of three set.
All consolation matches will be the best two out of three sets with a tiebreaker in lieu of the third set.The third set tiebreaker will be a match tiebreak played to ten points with a margin of two points.
The consolation will be a full feed in consolation through the quarterfinals.
There will be a playoff for third and fourth place in the main draw.

Doubles will be an 8 game pro-set

DIRECTION TO KNOXVILLE RACQUET CLUB:
Directions to KRC Traveling East on I-40 take Papermill exit, take a right onto Papermill Drive, Right at next light onto Weisgarber rd, Rt at 2nd light onto Lonas Drive and KRC is up on the left.

Traveling West on I-40 take Papermill exit, Right onto Papermill Drive, In <.1 take left on Holman Rd, then Left on Kirby Rd, Red Roof Inn is on left, Left onto Lonas Drive, KRC on right .2 miles.

Address 9201 Fox Lonas ( AKA) 701 Racquet Club Way Knoxville, TN

From the racquet club
R on Lonas out of KRC main entrance for .4 mi
L on Weisgarber:move to far right lane
R at light on to westbound ramp to I-40 for 4.6 mi.
Take Cedar Bluff RD.Exit 378 Slight right turn towards Executive Drive, Stay straight
You will go thru a stop sign and a traffic signal
Ball fields are on left. Club house and courts are just ahead

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FACILITY RULES The Knoxville Racquet Club, CBRC and UT, uses conduct rules above and beyond those enforced by the USTA. Players participating in tournaments at the facilities identified are required to abide by these facility rules of behavior on and off of the court. These rules also apply to parents, coaches, siblings, and other guests of the players.

The list below indicates the Facility Behavior Rules:

No use of the word "suck" or any form of the word spoken or spelled. No use of anything rhyming with "duck".
No use of expressions of frustrations with references to deities (i.e. "Oh My God", "Jesus", "Jesus Christ", "Christ", "God") either spoken or spelled.
No use of "freaking", "frigging", or "fricking" or variations of such words either spoken or spelled.
No Smoking anywhere on the premises. Premises includes, bathrooms, and anywhere within 50 feet of a tennis court.

THE CODE *** In matches without an offical on court, players are expected to follow ..THE CODE... . IT'S IN THE OFFICAILS HANDBOOK ... and is available on the USTA web site....If you haven't read this, please do so. THE CODE is also a good read for PARENTS more info