The Nationstates Tennis Tour welcomes all tennis athletes to the grass court season. We have three returning tournaments and we welcome the Salvador Hills Open to the NationStates Tennis Tour family. The NationStates Tennis Tour, and its previous iteration, the Association of Tennis Professionals, has been running for six seasons (year), with a one year hiatus in between.
This thread will be the thread where roleplays and results will be posted for the four grass court tournaments of the season. In order, these tournaments are:
- Salvador Hills Open (Tier 2) hosted in Salvador, The Grearish Union
- Mercedinian Open (Tier 1) hosted in Zoloroni, Mercedini
- Ethanian Open (Tier 1) hosted in Lowes, Ethane
- AOpen (Grand Slam) hosted in Emberton, Krytenia
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
NSTT Grass Court season 6 sign-up thread
NSTT Season 6 tournament timeline and rankings
NSTT Discussion/OOC thread
NSTT Discord server
Timeline (all times in UTC)
31 Aug - Sign-ups open for all tournaments
1930 7 Sep - Sign-ups close for Salvador Hills Open
10 Sep - 17 Sep - Salvador Hills Open
2000 17 Sep - Sign-ups close for Mercedinian Open
20 Sep to 27 Sep - Mercedinian Open
Mid season break
7 Oct - Sign-ups close for AOpen
12 Oct to 25 Oct - AOpen
2000 24 Oct - Sign-ups close for Ethanian Open
29 Oct to 5 Nov - Ethanian Open