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2012
– 2013 Season About
the Circuit The
Gateway Junior Grand Prix is a circuit of tennis tournaments
geared towards the recreational player.
The circuit consists of a series of single-night round
robin tournaments. The tournaments will be held at nine
different indoor clubs throughout the St. Louis Area. Players
accumulate points at each tournament, and the player’s
standings are updated on the website during the season.
The circuit begins in the fall and culminates with the
Masters Championships in the spring.
Player Eligibility Players
who have received a USTA District ranking in the top ten are
disqualified from playing the circuit. However, these top ten
players may play two age divisions higher if one exists. Boys
who have received a USTA District ranking of #11 thru #20 can
play, but must play one age division higher.
Rankings which are published during the Gateway season
are not considered – only published rankings before the
season begins. Getting
Started Before
entering tournaments, players must register to play in the
league. To do
this, the League Registration Form must be filled out and
submitted, and an annual $37 League Fee must be paid.
Now, for the first time, this process can be carried out on-line at the
league website – www.jrgrandprix.com.
If you would rather do this off-line, you may complete
the attached League Registration Form and mail it in with your
payment. If this
registration process was handled through Terry Ward during the
summer months, the League Registration Form and League Fee
won’t be due again until next summer.
Entering
Tournaments Once
a player is registered to play in the league, that player can
begin entering tournaments.
The fee for all events, including Doubles Nights, is $30
per event. Masters
Tournaments at the end of the season are priced at $45.
Tournaments cannot be entered on-line through the
website. A
Tournament Entry Form must be cut out of the back of this
pamphlet, and then mailed into the host club with a check for
$30.
Please make these checks for entry fees payable to the
host club. Entries
must be received by the host club no later than 6 pm on the
Thursday night before the event.
Players may withdraw from an event with a full
refund up until 6 pm on the Friday night before the event.
Tournament Format
Every
tournament will use a round-robin format where the participants
will play four different opponents. During these four rounds, a
total of five games will be played, each time using no-ad
scoring. The Boys
16’s and Boys 18’s will play six game rounds.
After the four rounds, the top four finishers in terms
of total games won will go into the playoffs.
In the playoffs, a full set will be played with the score starting at
two games all. The #1 seed will play against the #4 seed,
and the #2 seed will play against the #3 seed.
The two winners will then play for the championship, and
the losers will play each other for third place.
The championship round will again be a set starting at
two games all, and the third place round will simply involve
the playing of a Super-Tiebreaker to ten points.
In the 10 and under divisions, only Super-Tiebreakers to
ten points will be played. Tournaments generally take about three hours to
complete. Players
can be defaulted if they are twenty or more minutes late to a
tournament. Age
Group Eligibility & Point System 1.
Boys and Girls 10 and under : Must be born on or
after May 1, 2002 2.
Boys and Girls 12 and under : Must be born on or
after May 1, 2000 3.
Boys and Girls 14 and under: Must be born on or
after May 1, 1998 4.
Girls 16 and under: Must be born on or after May 1,
1996 5.
Girls 18 and under : Must be born on or after May 1,
1994 6.
Boys 16 and under : Must be born on or after February
11, 1996
Points will be awarded to the participants as follows:
Each game won in four rounds – 5 points
First place – 40 points
Second place – 30 points
Third place – 20 points
Fourth place – 10 points Only a player’s top five
tournament results will count toward a player’s point total.
Points earned at a Doubles Night and at The
Masters are added to a player’s point total.
Point
standings and other helpful information can be found at our web
site: www.jrgrandprix.com. The Masters Championships After
all of the tournaments have been completed, the top eight
ranked players in each age division will be invited to play in
The Masters Championship. The
Masters Championship will be a conventional tournament played
over a weekend. A
compass format will be used, so all players will play three
full matches. A
weighted point system is used for this event, and points earned
are added to a player’s final point total. The Masters will
cost $45 per player. The
club that is hosting the Masters will contact all of the
players who have qualified to participate.
Gateway T-Shirt
Each player will be entitled to receive a complimentary
Gateway T-shirt once a player has registered to play in the
league. Shirts
can be picked up at either Racketman location – Des Peres or
Chesterfield. Doubles
Nights
One Doubles Night will be offered for each age group
this season. These
will be fun practice nights.
No scores will be recorded, and no trophies will be
awarded. Each
participant will be awarded 50 points.
These 50 points are added to a player’s overall point total.
A player may play up in an older age division in the
doubles if they wish, but once you have played in one Doubles
Night, that player will not be awarded any additional points.
If a player is ranked in more than one age group, fifty
points will be added to all of the age groups that the player
is ranked in. Players are to sign-up individually for the Doubles Nights.
If a player would like to play one round with a certain
person, this may be requested on the entry form.
The fee for these Doubles Nights will also be $30.
Please be aware that participants may play rounds with
players of different age groups and genders.
All players need to report to the host club at
5:45 PM for these Doubles Nights.
These events will end promptly at 8:30 pm. Ten
and Under Events
All Girls 10 and under tournaments will use a sixty-foot
court and the slower, orange and yellow ball.
In the Boys 10 and under events, there are two different
divisions offered. One
is the format which uses the sixty-foot court and the slower
orange and yellow ball. These
events are listed on the schedule by the designation:
B10’s (60’). The
other division for the Boys 10 and under will use the full
court and the standard tennis ball.
These events are listed on the schedule by the
designation: B10 (FC). All Boys 10 and under players are welcome to participate in both the sixty-foot court and full court divisions. These events are always held on different weekends, including The Masters, so players are free to compete and be ranked in both divisions. Please be aware that in the sixty-foot court events, players must use a 25” length racquet or smaller.
2012-13
Gateway League Registration Form *Please note that this form, and the $37 Annual
League Fee, can be submitted on-line at our website: www.jrgrandprix.com.
Please use the on-line method if possible.
Thank you. Name:
______________________________________________ Address:
____________________________________________ City/State/Zip
Code: ___________________________________ Birth
Date: _______________ Phone
Number: (_____) _____________________ Email
Address: _____________________________________ Please
mail this form, along with your $37 payment, made payable to:
Craigwell, Inc., to:
Craig Tidwell
725 Jacobs Crossing
St. Charles, MO 63304. 2012-2013 Schedule of
Tournaments For
singles tournaments, the age group listed first will need to
report to the host club at 5:45 PM.
The age group listed second will report at 7:45 PM.
All players in Doubles Nights and tournaments where only
one age group is being held will report at 5:45 PM.
Club mailing
addresses to send entry forms and fees (Make
checks payable to host clubs.) 1.
Sunset Tennis Center
10911 Gravois Industrial Court
St. Louis, MO 63128
Attention – Grand Prix Director
Phone: (314) 849-2327 2.
Frontenac Racquet Club
10455 German Road
St. Louis, MO 63131
Attention – Jennifer Wilhelm
Phone: (314) 991-5599 3.
Woodsmill Racquet Club
910 Old Woodsmill Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Attention – Bill Barker
Phone: (636) 227-3385
4. Missouri
Athletic Club (West)
1777 Des Peres Road
St.
Louis, MO 63131
Attention – Kim Steinmetz Phone:
(314) 539-4444
5. Creve Coeur Racquet Club
12691 Conway Road
St.
Louis, MO 63141
Attention – Alan Douglas
Phone: (314) 434-0344
6. Chesterfield Athletic Club (Club Address:
16619 Swingley Ridge Rd.)
Mail entries to: Craig Tidwell
725 Jacobs Crossing
St.
Charles, MO 63304
Phone: (636) 448 - 2443
7. Vetta - Concord 12320 Old Tesson Road St. Louis, MO
63128 Attention – Kevin Ebert
Phone: (314) 842- 3111
8.
West James Courts
1330 Harvestowne Industrial
St. Charles, MO 63304
Attention – Jean Zerr
Phone: (636) 441- 0006
9. Forest Lake Tennis Club
1012 N. Woodsmill Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Attention
– Tom Fluri Phone:
(314) 878 - 2722
Tournament Entry Forms
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