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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2025 19:53 schreef WismutVeilchen83 het volgende:[..]
Goede vraag eigenlijk, heb ik nooit echt over nagedacht. Maar eigenlijk kan het niet dat het alleen bij toernooien uit dezelfde categorie zo werkt. Die toernooien switchen zo veel en er zit vaak een opbouw in (250, daarna een 500. Na een 500 vaak een 1000 zoals bij Dubai/Acapulco - Indian Wells, Washington-Montréal, Basel/Wenen-Parijs en Peking/Tokio-Shanghai). Ik denk daarom dat het toch zo werkt dat als je eigenlijk kwalificatie moet spelen maar je kunt het niet omdat je diep in een ander toernooi gaat dat je dan toch toegelaten wordt. Voor zo’n toernooi is het natuurlijk ook eigenlijk altijd wel aantrekkelijk om een (halve) finalist van de week ervoor te hebben in de draw.
7.10 Special Exempts (SE)
A. Eligibility
Players may receive a special exempt into the main draw of the following week’s
tournament if they meet the criteria and apply for it in a timely manner.
1) A player is eligible to receive a special exempt into the singles main draw of the
following week’s tournament, subject to the provisions of this section, if he is un-
able to compete in that qualifying competition because he is still competing on the
date the qualifying competition begins in another qualifi ed event, and his current
ranking as of the date of the entry deadline would not have otherwise qualifi ed
him as a direct acceptance on the original acceptance list if he had entered. In
addition, a player who is still playing a match at 9 p.m. local time at the qualifying
site, is eligible to receive a special exempt only if he wins that match.
a) A Qualifi ed event for special exempt to an ATP Tour Masters 1000 tourna-
ment is the singles event of another ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Tour 500 or
Grand Slam tournament.
b) A Qualifi ed event for special exempt to an ATP Tour 500 tournament is the
singles event of another ATP Tour 500, ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Tour
250* or Grand Slam tournament.
*The 250 event must be located in the same region as the 500 event, as
determined by ATP and specifi ed in “Exhibit M”.
c) A Qualifi ed event for special exempt to an ATP Tour 250 tournament is the
singles event of any ATP Tour 250, ATP Tour 500, ATP Tour Masters 1000 or
Grand Slam tournament.
d) A Qualifi ed event for special exempt to an ATP Challenger Tour tournament
is the singles event of an ATP Tour or ATP Challenger Tour tournament within
the same geographic region, unless there are no Challengers in the same
region the following week. If there are no Challengers in the same region the
following week, then a qualifi ed event would include all ATP Challenger Tour
events scheduled in the following week, regardless of region. (Defi nition of
Regions can be found in “Exhibit M”).
EXCEPTION 1: A player who has entered and been accepted into the quali-
fying draw of an ATP Tour tournament and has been withdrawn because he is
still competing in a Challenger or Tour event in the same region, will be add-
ed to the last position on the special exempt list of an ATP Challenger Tour
tournament scheduled for the next week, even though he would have been a
direct acceptance, had he entered the Challenger.
Note: EXCEPTION does not apply if player was Top 50 twenty one (21) days
prior to the fi rst Monday of the Challenger.
EXCEPTION 2: A player who has entered and been accepted into the qualify-
ing draw of an ATP Tour 500 tournament and has been withdrawn because he
is still competing in an ATP Tour event, will be added to the last position on the
special exempt list of an ATP Tour 250 tournament located in the same region
(as determined by ATP) if specific conditions are met. These conditions are:
i) He is qualified for a Special Exempt spot in the ATP Tour 500 event.
ii) Due to other qualified player(s) for the Special Exempt into the ATP Tour
500 event there is no Special Exempt available.
iii) The player’s ranking would have qualified him for the main draw of the
250 event, had he entered there instead of the 500 qualifying.
B. Number of Special Exempts
ATP Tour Masters 1000 and ATP Tour 500 tournaments shall have one (1) special
exempt. ATP Tour 250 and ATP Challenger Tour tournaments shall have two (2).
C. Selection of Special Exempt
1) If there are not suffi cient special exempt places in the draw for applicants, the
players shall be selected according to their position on the most recent Pep-
perstone ATP Rankings list issued prior to the tournament or by their protected
ranking, except:
a) If he is a direct acceptance using his protected ranking, then he is not eligible
for a special exempt place, or
b) If he would have been a direct acceptance had he entered using his protected
ranking, then the protected ranking cannot be used to determine his position
on the special exempt list.
2) ATP Tour. If the special exempt places are not needed before the beginning of
the qualifying competition, the special exempt places shall be fi lled by additional
direct acceptances selected from the original acceptance list. Thus a player may
be pulled out of the qualifying before the fi rst ball is hit and replaced by an alter-
nate list player.
3) ATP Challenger Tour. If the special exempt place is not needed prior to the 10
AM withdrawal deadline, the special exempt place shall be fi lled by an additional
direct acceptance selected from the original acceptance list. If the special exempt
place has not been determined at the deadline, and then following the 10 AM-
withdrawal deadline it is determined that the Special Exempt is not needed, the
additional direct acceptance shall be filled from the next player who has properly
preserved his eligibility on the original acceptance list for that event.
D. Special Exempt Process
1) A list of possible eligible players is compiled by the player relations department by
Wednesday/Thursday of the current week for the next week’s tournaments.
2) The list of eligible players is supplied to the supervisors where the players are
competing. The supervisors need to contact each player to inquire if the player
is interested in the special exempt position and then contact player relations im-
mediately following the player’s decision to remove himself from consideration for
any tournament for which he is eligible.
3) If the player is interested in an event, player relations coordinates with the super-
visors at both events until the SE positions are fi lled.