2023 ITA Men's All-American Information Hub

Format

No-ad, best two-out-of-three sets in singles for all draws. No-ad, best two-out-of-three sets with a match tiebreak in lieu of the third set in all doubles draws.

Consolation

Pre-Qualifying & Qualifying Singles: There will be one round of a first match loser consolation on Sunday (pre-qualifying draw) and Tuesday (qualifying draw). All players who lose their first match will be automatically added to the consolation draw. If for some reason your player is unable to play, you MUST inform the head or deputy referee at your site, or Cody Johnson.

Qualifying Doubles: No consolation

Main Draw Singles & Doubles: Full first-match loser consolation draw.

Ball & Ball Change

Wilson Extra Duty ball. The ball change is 1 can per set in singles and 1 can per set in doubles with no new balls for a match tiebreak.

Tentative Schedule of Play

*Please note: Thereis a strong possibility that teams with multiple players inthevariousdraws willbeat multiplesites.

PRE-QUALIFYING – Case Tennis Center @ Universityof Tulsa, Case Tennis Center @ LaFortune Park

Saturday, Sept. 30 – First & Second Round Singles

Sunday, Oct. 1 – Third Round & Qualifying Round Singles, One Round of Consolation

QUALIFYING – Case Tennis Center @ Universityof Tulsa, Case Tennis Center @ LaFortune Park (Monday only)

Monday, Oct. 2 – First Round Singles, First & Second Round of Doubles

Tuesday, Oct. 3 – Second Round & Qualifying Round Singles, Qualifying Round Doubles

One round of singles consolation

MAIN DRAW – (Case Tennis Center @ Universityof Tulsa)

Wednesday, Oct. 4 – Main Draw: First Round Singles and Doubles

Thursday, Oct. 5 – Main Draw: Second Round Singles and Second Round Doubles

Consolation: First Round Singles and First Round Doubles

Friday, Oct. 6 – Main Draw: Third Round and Quarterfinal Singles, Quarterfinal Doubles

Consolation: Second Round and Quarterfinal Singles, Quarterfinal Doubles

Saturday, Oct. 7 – Main Draw: Semifinal Singles and Semifinal Doubles

Consolation: Semifinal Singles and Semifinal Doubles

Sunday, Oct. 8 – Main: Singles Championship and Doubles Championship

Consolation: Singles Championship and Doubles Championship

Draw Making Procedures

A player/doubles team cannot play an opponent from its same region in the first round, if at all possible. When a draw involves players or doubles teams from the same school, such entries shall be separated as far out as possible, placed in separate halves, quarters or eighths as evenly as possible, depending on the number of entries from that school or university. The same procedure shall be used when a school has multiple seeds. The top 2 seeds from a school shall be in separate halves, a third seeded player in the same half with the second seeded player and so on.

Seeding

Main Draw - (Singles) No. 1-8 in order, followed by Nos. 9-16 alpha; (Doubles) No. 1-4 in order, followed by Nos. 5-8 alpha; Qualifying - (Singles) No. 1-16 in order, followed by 17-32 alpha; (Doubles) - No. 1-8 in order, followed by Nos. 9-16 alpha. Prequalifying - (Singles) No. 1-8 in order, followed by Nos. 9-16 alpha, followed by Nos. 17-32 alpha. Seeding is directly off of preseason rankings. When ranking list is exhausted the remaining seeds are determined by the selection committee.

Alternate List Policy & Lucky Losers

The alternate list is eliminated once play begins in a prior draw - the Qualifying alternate list is void once PQ play starts; the MD alternate list is void once Qualifying begins. Lucky losers are selected into the Qualifying draw by placing the names of all players who reached the final qualifying round into a hat and drawing them out (with no preference given to seeding). Lucky losers into the main draw are selected in order of the highest seeds that lose in the final qualifying rounds. Once the seeds are exhausted, the remaining Lucky Losers are determined by random draw. If there are no players/doubles teams on-site who advanced to the final qualifying round, the Lucky Losers will be drawn out of a hat from the list of players who have signed-up on-site.

Lucky losers and/or alternates can be inserted into the 1st round of pre-qualifying, qualifying, and the main draw at any time during the 1st round of play. Lucky losers and/or alternates may no longer be inserted into the 1st round of the consolation draw (ITA Division I Operating Committee, May 2017).

ITA Games Committee

1. Tournament Director – Vince Westbrook

2. Head Referee – Steve Laro

3. ITA Staff on-site

4. Members of the ITA National Tournament Committee who are present at the event

5. Others designated by ITA Staff on-site

ITA National Tournament Committee

Northeast Region – Marco Matteucci, NJIT

Carolina Region – Kyle Bailey, Charlotte

Southeast Region – Dwayne Hultquist, Florida State

Ohio Valley Region – Geoff Young, Purdue

Atlantic Region – Jim Thompson, Virginia Tech

Southern Region – George Husack, Alabama

Midwest Region – Arvid Swan, Northwestern

Central Region – Dustin Taylor, Oklahoma State

Texas Region – Sergey Avdeyev, UTSA

Mountain Region – Roeland Brateanu, Utah

Northwest Region – Rahim Esmail, Washington

Southwest Region – Adam Schaechterle, Pepperdine

Selection Process

The ITA National Ranking & Tournament Committee, consisting of the 12 region chairs, the ITA Operating Committee Chair and the Associate ITA Operating Committee Chair, is responsible for all selections for the championships. Only NCAA Division I student-athletes are eligible to participate.

Selection Criteria

A. Main Draw – Automatic entry spots first, including regional representation, followed by remaining selections in order of the ITA preseason national singles and doubles rankings.

B. Qualifying – Automatic entry spots first, including regional representation, followed by remaining selections in order of the ITA preseason national singles and doubles rankings. If ranking list is exhausted, selections will be made based on WTN.

C. Prequalifying – Selections based on ITA preseason national singles rankings. Once ranking list is exhausted, selections based on WTN.

Regional Selections :

For singles, regional representation will be determined by the most recent regional rankings, rather than the ITA Preseason National Ranking (as decided by the ITA Division I Operating Committee, May 2012). For singles this will be the highest ranked returning singles player (who was submitted for the event) on the most recent regional rankings.

If there are not enough players in the regional rankings for a selection to be made, a region must select representatives in order of ITA Preseason National Ranking. If there are not enough players listed on either rankings for a selection to be made, then the regional committee will make a selection based on a player’s overall results from the previous season.

For doubles, regional representation will be determined by a regional priority list generated by the Regional Committee from the complete list of submitted teams from their region (as decided by the ITA Division I Men’s Championships Subcommittee, July 2022).

Main Draw Singles (64 players)

48 automatic, at-large and wild card selections

16 players from the Qualifying tournament

Automatic entry: Returning Champion, ITA National Summer Championships Champion, Regional Representation (top 2 players per region),

Players returning from the Top 20 of the year-end ITA Rankings

Main Draw Doubles (32 teams)

24 automatic, at-large and wild card selections

8 teams from the Qualifying tournament

Automatic entry: Returning Champion, ITA National Summer Championships Champions (if from same school), Regional Representation (1 per region), Intact teams returning from the Top 10 of the year-end ITA Rankings

Qualifying Singles (128 players)

112 automatic, at-large and wild card selections

16 players from prequalifying tournament

Players must win 3 rounds to advance to Main Draw

Automatic entry: ITA National Summer Championships Finalist, Regional Representation (top 4 players per region), In Main Draw of Doubles, Top Ten Freshman

Note: Players who are moved into the MD of doubles off of the alternate list (including region reps) are not guaranteed a spot in Qualifying Singles.

Qualifying Doubles (64 teams)

64 automatic, at-large and wild card selections

Teams must win a minimum of 3 rounds to advance to Main Draw

Automatic entry: ITA National Summer Championships Finalist (if from same school), Regional Representation (4 per region)

Prequalifying Singles

256 automatic, at-large and wild card selections

Final 16 advance to Qualifying

Wild Card Distribution

A breakdown of wild cards per draw is as follows:

● Main Draw Singles

o 4 Wild Cards:

▪ 1 Host

▪ 1 Tulsa Sports Commission

▪ 1 ITA Summer Champion

▪ 1 ITA (National Tournament Committee Discretion)

● Main Draw Doubles

o 3 Wild Cards:

▪ 1 Host

▪ 1 ITA Summer Champion

▪ 1 ITA (National Tournament Committee Discretion)

● Qualifying Singles

o 5 Wild Cards:

▪ 1 Host

▪ 1 Tulsa Sports Commission

▪ 1 ITA Summer Finalist

▪ 2 ITA (National Tournament Committee Discretion)

● Qualifying Doubles

o 4 Wild Cards:

▪ 1 Host

▪ 1 ITA Summer Finalist

▪ 2 ITA (National Tournament Committee Discretion)

● Prequalifying Singles

o TBD Wild Cards:

▪ TBD Host

Notes: An ITA wild card can be given for any reason, with the primary ones for an outstanding freshman or a player who missed a significant portion of the previous season due to injury. The selection committee can also decide not to use the ITA wild card, in which case an “at-large” candidate would fill the spot. National Summer Championships wild cards will be converted to discretionary wild cards if the athletes are Summer Champions and Runners-up are ineligible to accept them.

Error Slots

The selection committee reserves the right to save 1 at-large spot in each draw to use in case of administrative error. The timing of the release of this spot is at the discretion of the ITA.

Protest Procedure

Coaches can officially protest a player’s selection for the selection committee to review. Protests must be sent to Cody Johnson (cody.johnson@itatennis.com) no later than 48 hours after selections are published. Any protests submitted after the 48 hour window will not be accepted.

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