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Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME FROM BILLIE JEAN KING . 3 JOIN THE WINNING TEAM Professional League. 4 Recreational League. 4 RECREATIONAL LEAGUE SPONSORS . 4 ADDITIONAL WORLD TEAMTENNIS PROGRAMS . 5 WORLD TEAMTENNIS What Is It? . 5 Who Plays? . 5 When Can Your League Start? . 5 How Does WTT Help the Tennis Club or Public Facility? . 5 WTT Membership Includes . 6 What is Needed? . 6 Can Seniors Participate? . 6 Can Open Players Participate? . 6 Can Teams Advance Past the Local Level? . 6 WTT Corporate Leagues. 6 SCORING Game Scoring . 7 Set Scoring . 7 Match Scoring and Overtime . 7 Substitutions . 7 Warm-up Time . 8 Service Order . 8 Changing Ends . 8 Service Lets . 8 Coaching/Line Calls . 8 Default Rule . 8 Explanation of Tiebreakers . 8-9 ADMINISTRATION OF LEAGUES Team Captain . 9 League Director . 9-10 Licensing your League or Tournament . 10 Fee Structure for a WTT League or Tournament Site License . 10-11 Handling the Cost of the League . 11 Tennis Balls . 11 PUBLICITY How to Get Publicity . 12 Respecting Editors’ Deadline . 12-13 Using Media Kits . 13 SAMPLE NEWS RELEASE . 14 WTT.COM — 1 — WORLD TEAMTENNIS RECREATIONAL LEAGUE HANDBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS [CONTINUED] WTT RECREATIONAL LEAGUE PRESENTED BY ADVANTA STYLE GUIDE - PUBLIC RELATIONS WTT References - Capitalization . 15 Correct Name of Other WTT Events and Affiliated Events . 15 USTA Campus Championship . 15 WTT Boilerplate . 15 WTT Logo . 15 Other Notes . 15 SAMPLE LEAGUE SCHEDULE . 16 HOW TO SET UP A ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULE . 17 QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT/EVENT FOR NATIONAL QUALIFIER ADVANCEMENT. 17 NATIONAL QUALIFIER RULES . 18-19 WTT NATIONALS RULES . 19 2007 NATIONAL QUALIFIERS . 19 2007 NATIONALS. 19 CONTACTS . 20 Copyright © WORLD TEAMTENNIS, Inc. 2007. All rights reserved. WTT IS A COPYRIGHTED TENNIS FORMAT AND MAY NOT BE USED BY ANYONE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION. WORLD TEAMTENNIS RECREATIONAL LEAGUE HANDBOOK — 2 — WTT.COM Dear WTT League Directors: For more than 20 years, WTT recreational leagues in more than 1,000 cities across the nation have been helping tennis players of all ages and abilities experience one of the more exciting formats in our great sport. As a director of your local league, you play a major role in helping us introduce more players to the WTT format and our special brand of tennis. Our mission when we founded the WTT Recreational League in 1985 is still very much at the forefront of everything we do today. World FOTO: JONATHAN EXLEY TeamTennis is dedicated to promoting the sport of tennis as a sport for everyone and anyone by tapping the fun, competitive, social and CO-FOUNDER OF WORLD TEAMTENNIS entertaining spirit that comes from being part of a team. HOLDER OF A RECORD 20 WIMBLEDON TITLES I will forever be very proud of the work we have done together over RANKED IN THE TOP 10 IN THE WORLD FOR 17 YEARS the years to grow World TeamTennis to where it is today. Rest assured HER MATCH WITH BOBBY RIGGS STILL HOLDS THE RECORD FOR THE that our job is not done and we will only reach our goal of having MOST PEOPLE TO EVER ATTEND A SINGLE TENNIS MATCH World TeamTennis played at the recreational level in thousands of cities throughout the country through the hard work, tireless energy and MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME commitment from you, the WTT League Directors. FOUNDED THE WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATION (1973) AND THE WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION (1974) I wish you the best of luck this year and I am thrilled to have you on the MEMBER OF THREE WORLD TEAMTENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS WTT team. (NY SETS - 1976, NY APPLES - 1977 AND CHICAGO FYRE - 1983) NAMED ONE OF THE “100 MOST IMPORTANT AMERICANS OF THE 20TH CENTURY” BY LIFE MAGAZINE IN 1990 FED CUP CAPTAIN 1995, 1996, 1998-2004 OLYMPIC CAPTAIN 1996, 2000 2003 PHILIPPE CHATRIER AWARD - THE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS FEDERATION’S HIGHEST HONOR, RECOGNIZING INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO TENNIS. ON AUGUST 28, 2006, THE NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER, HOME OF THE U.S. OPEN, WAS RENAMED THE USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER, IN HONOR OF KING’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO TENNIS, SPORTS AND SOCIETY BOTH ON AND OFF THE COURT. IN OCTOBER 2006, THE NATIONAL SPORTS MUSEUM AND THE WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCED THAT THE BILLIE JEAN KING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S SPORTS CENTER, THE FIRST HALL OF FAME DEDICATED TO WOMEN’S SPORTS, WILL BE HOUSED AT THE NATIONAL SPORTS MUSEUM WHEN IT OPENS IN NEW YORK CITY IN 2008. WTT.COM — 3 — WORLD TEAMTENNIS RECREATIONAL LEAGUE HANDBOOK JOIN THE WINNING TEAM WTT PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE PRESENTED BY ADVANTA World TeamTennis (WTT) is the only professional co-ed team sport with men and women equally represented. A team consists of two men, two women and a coach. The 2007 Pro League season will take place July 5 through 25 with the WTT Championship Weekend set for July 27-29 in Roseville, Calif. 2007 WTT PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE FRANCHISES: Delaware Smash Hartford FoxForce Kansas City Explorers New York Buzz New York Sportimes Philadelphia Freedoms Sacramento Capitals Boston Lobsters St. Louis Aces Houston Wranglers Springfield Lasers Newport Beach Breakers WTT RECREATIONAL LEAGUE PRESENTED BY ADVANTA WTT Recreational Leagues are played at tennis clubs, public parks, colleges, high schools, corporations, military bases, tennis camps and other facilities all across America. An extension of the WTT Professional League, it is a team effort with men and women competing together using the World TeamTennis format. It is administered through a nationwide structure including Team Captains, League Directors and the National Headquarters in New York. RECREATIONAL LEAGUE SPONSORS ADVANTA For more than 50 years, Advanta has been providing innovative financial services and currently ranks as one of the nation’s largest issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) of MasterCard business credit cards to small businesses and business professionals. Proud to bring outstanding tennis to the public, Advanta is the presenting sponsor of the World TeamTennis Pro and Rec Leagues and official credit card of WTT. In addition to their involvement with WTT and the their very own “Ready, Set, Racquet!” program, which has provided 100,000 free racquets to children since 2003, Advanta continues to be involved in numerous tennis charities including WTT Smash Hits, Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education, and Philadelphia Wheelchair Tennis programs. Learn more about Advanta at www.advanta.com. GATORADE Gatorade Thirst quencher, the nation’s leading sports drink, is backed by more than 40 years of research and is scientifically formulated and athletically proven to quench thirst, replace fluids and electrolytes and provide carbohydrate energy to enhance athletic performance. Gatorade is the official sports drink of World TeamTennis, the NFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL, AVP,.
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