National Rankings will be updated and published after each event.

To receive an official end-of-the-year ranking, a team must play 3 events together, with one of those events outside of their home region. Nationals is considered an out-of-region event no matter its location and is the only NRT with this designation.

NRT points for a specific tournament exist for 12 months and are replaced by the following year’s event.

Removal of any earned NRT points due to rules infractions or punishment for player behavior will be enforced as instructed by the APTA National Tournaments Committee (the Committee).

Based on odd size draws, last chance play and feed-in draws, the points may have to be adjusted slightly to correctly award teams for their final placement.

Ranking points earned in a NRT event will follow the published National Ranking point schedule multiplied by the tournament weighting designated by the Committee after the event is completed.

Grand Prix tournaments are rated at 4.25. Other NRT ratings are calculated by adding up the total seeding points of the top 16 teams prior to each event. The total number of points will then be compared to the APTA Weighting Schedule below to get the rating, with a maximum rating of 4.0. Nationals will be evaluated year to year and adjusted as the Committee sees fit.

The Committee reserves the right to make adjustments to ranking, seeding, or weighting procedures should any anomalies arise.

Men’s NRT Back Draw Default Rules:

Any player who finishes his previous match and loses is responsible for playing his next scheduled back draw match. One exception: In all NRTs, which include Grand Prix and National Championships, the quarterfinal back draw is not mandatory.

However, the tournament director must be notified.

Additional details:
The Quarterfinal Reprieve in draws over 16 teams is OPTIONAL.
In one day 16 draws the quarterfinal reprieve is MANDATORY.
If no matches are played, all teams receive 7-8th place points.
If two teams play, regardless of what side of the draw they are on, the winner will receive 5th place points and the loser 6th place points.
If one team wants to play and the other three do not, that one team will receive 5th place points and the other three 7-8th place points.
It is the tournament director’s responsibility to ask the quarterfinalists prior to their matches what their intent on playing the reprieve is and to relay this information to the Committee.

Men’s NRT Default Penalties:

In all Men’s National Ranking Tournaments, players who default a main draw or back draw match for reasons other than injury or emergencies will lose all points for that tournament. (See above for exception.)

Women’s NRT Back Draw Default Rules:

Any player who finishes her previous match and loses is responsible for playing her next scheduled back draw match. In Women’s National Ranking Tournaments, playing in the quarterfinal reprieve is mandatory.

Women’s NRT Default Penalties:

In all Women’s National Ranking Tournaments, players who default a main draw or back draw match for reasons other than injury or emergencies will lose all national ranking points for that tournament.

Additional detail:
The Quarterfinal Reprieve is NOT optional in Women’s National Ranking Tournaments.

Seeding and instructions for the pull of the draw for all NRT events will be done by the Committee and the local tournament director.

Seeding and Placement of Seeds (Listed and Non-listed) will follow the guidelines as follows:

• NRT seeding and Grand Prix and Nationals qualification will use a combination of each player’s 3 individual highest results across the 2 previous years. Results from the immediate previous year are counted at 100%, and from the prior year at 75%.
• Player A (Average of top 3 tournament results in previous 2 years) +
  Player B (Average of top 3 tournament results in previous 2 years)
  = Team Seeding.
• The number of Listed and Non-listed Seeds will be determined by the number of participants and format of the event.
• Tournaments with 9-16 entered teams will have 2 listed seeds and up to 6 non-listed seeds;
  17-32 entered teams will have 4 listed seeds and up to 8 non-listed seeds;
  33-64 entered teams will have 8 listed seeds and up to 16 non-listed seeds;
  65-95 entered teams will have 16 listed seeds and up to 16 non-listed seeds;
  96-128 entered teams will have 16 listed seeds and up to 32 non-listed seeds.
• Events that host PTI events or multiple NRt draws, on the same weekend, will receive additional Listed and Non-listed Seeding teams; this will be at the discretion of the Committee and the local tournament director.

Randy Lofgren