The Nationstates Tennis Tour welcomes all tennis athletes to the clay court season. All tournaments in this swing are returning, and we welcome the Championnats Nationaux de Reçueçn de Tennis into the aegis of the NationStates Tennis Tour. The Nationstates Tennis Tour, and its previous iteration, the Association of Tennis Professionals, has been running for six seasons, with a one year hiatus in between.
This thread will be the thread where roleplays and results will be posted for the four clay court tournaments of the season. In order, these tournaments are:
- Istria Open (Tier 2) hosted in Istria, Banija
- Championnats Nationaux de Reçueçn de Tennis (Tier 1) hosted in Beçonailles, Reçueçn
- Mattijana Open (Tier 1) hosted in Burges, Mattijana
- Hamilton International (Grand Slam) hosted in Hamilton, Electrum
This thread OP will contain general information about the timeline for the four tournaments, whereas the next four posts will contain specific information for each of the tournaments, including information about the host city and draws/schedules.
Scorination Details
All NSTT tournaments will be scorinated on xkoranate with advantage sets. Grand slam singles tournaments will be best of five sets, all other tournaments, including grand slam doubles tournaments will be best of three sets. The logarithm points will be used, so that the vast inequalities in total points don't mean predictable matches. To determine the seeding and points of doubles pairings, the average of the sum of the doubles players logarithmic rankings will be used. Draws for both the singles and doubles competition will follow the normal procedures undertaken by the ITF.
All roleplays are scored, with quality over quantity emphasized. Multiple roleplays submitted on the same day will be counted as one larger whole. All players without a ranking will have a skill level equal to the lowest main draw player's logarithmic points.
Where there are more entrants than available places, a knock-out qualification round is played.
At the conclusion of each tournament, rankings are updated to reflect the new points earned by players. These points last one year/season.
Links
Istria Open draws
NSTT Clay Court season 6 sign-up/OOC thread
NSTT Season 6 tournament timeline and rankings
NSTT Discussion thread
NSTT Discord server
Timeline (all times in GMT)
1300 7 June - Sign-ups close for Istria Open
1300 10 June to 17 June - Istria Open
2100 17 June - Sign-ups close for Championnats Nationaux de Reçueçn de Tennis
2100 20 June to 27 June - Championnats Nationaux de Reçueçn de Tennis
1900 27 June - Sign-ups close for Mattijana Open
1900 30 June to 7 July - Mattijana Open
0900 7 July - Sign-ups close for Hamilton International
0900 11 July to 23 July - Hamilton International