USAPA Ranking System

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Start Date

 
  1. The new Ranking System shall start January 1st 2007.


Ranking Period

  1. The Ranking Period for earning points shall be 1 year and shall run from January 1st to December 31st.


Age Determination

  1. A Player's age for the entire ranking year shall be determined by their age on December 31st of the ranking year in question.
    Comment: This will be true for all age groups. The possibility of different rules for juniors could be studied in the future.

Awarding of Points

  1. As of January 1st, 2009, points will only be awarded to USAPA members.

  2. Points earned will only be counted towards rankings in the events in which they were earned.
    Comment: If a player has won points during the season in Men's 50+ Singles, Men's Open Doubles, and Mixed Doubles, his points will not be combined, but rather applied towards point totals in each of the three divisions.

  3. Players may only receive ranking points from playing in approved events in USAPA Sanctioned Tournaments.
    Comment: See USAPA List of Ranked Events.

  4. When age divisions are combined points will be awarded in the combined legal age division of the event.

  5. Doubles Points will be awarded to each individual rather than to the team. Mixed Doubles Points will be combined with Men's Doubles points if you are a man or Women's Doubles points if you are a women. This will probably change in the future when we have more sanctioned tournaments.
    Comment: The End of Year rankings in doubles will be by player rather than by team.

  6. (Starting 2008)In Non Senior Olympic events, points will be awarded only to one 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in events that are combined. In Senior Olympic combined events, points will be given to each Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal winner.
    Comment: In all events, the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place winner will receive ranking points even if they have not won a match.

  7. Senior Tournaments by Ratings will have points awarded in the Senior Rating Categories.
    Comment: Those are Senior 4.5, Senior 4.0, Senior 3.5, Senior 3.0, Senior 2.5, etc.

  8. Senior Tournaments by Age that have additional flights in some divisions of play will have points awarded only in the top flight of play. Additional flights should receive awards, but will not receive USAPA Ranking Points.
    Comment: If for example, Senior Men's Doubles 60-64 has a 2nd flight called Senior Men's Doubles 60-64 Flight "B", it will receive normal awards, but it will receive no points from the USAPA point system.

  9. Consolation winners will have points awarded in the event they entered if it is a true consolation event.


Event Eligibility

  1. In the Junior Age Divisions, players may enter any event for which they are not too old, including older age divisions.

  2. In the Senior Age Division, players may enter any event for which they are not too young, including younger age divisions.
    Comment: This is a Change and becomes effective January 1st, 2008 but Tournament Directors will have the power to overrule this.

  3. In any USAPA Rated event, players are asked to self rate themselves if they do not already have an USAPA rating. However, the Tournament Director has the final decision on where unrated players are placed. Rated players may only be placed in a different division by the Tournament Director with the players permission or if events have to be combined.


USAPA Ranked Events

  1. A USAPA ranked event is an event that appears on the USAPA's List Of Ranked Events. A ranked event is simply an event that the USAPA will produce rankings for at the end of the ranking year. Events which are not on this list or are not added to this list by the end of the ranking year by the USAPA board, will not produce rankings.

  2. Events may be added to the List of Ranked Events at any time by a vote of the USAPA board. Events which took place prior to approval will only be eligible for ranking points if: (1)they were played within the previous 45 days, (2)approval took place before the end of the current ranking period, and (3)the tournament was otherwise eligible for points.
    Comment 1: This vote may occur before, during, or after the event is played.
    Comment 2: Events should only be added to the list if it is expected that there will be many more such events during the remaining ranking year and in the years to come.

  3. If events are combined in a tournament because of lack of participants, the combined event must be an event for which all participants would be eligible for play in order to qualify for ranking points.
    Comment 1: If for example, Men's Doubles 50&Over, 55&Over, and 60&Over, were to be combined, the resulting event would have to be Men's Doubles 50&Over.
    Comment 2: If for example, Boys Singles 12&Under and 14&Under are combined, the resulting event would have to be Boys 14&Under


Tiered Ranking Point Tables



List of USAPA Approved Events




Tournament Requirements for Sanctioning (Revised 07/26/2007)




USAPA Tournament Management Software



Other Considerations