Propositions

PROPOSITIONS for
12th INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT FOR ENGINEERS
ZAGREB, CROATIA
September 1st to 3rd, 2023

ORGANIZERS:
Tennis club “Medo”, Crnčićeva 41, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska

LOCATION OF PLAYING:
TC Cmrok, Jurjevska 65a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

TIME OF PLAYING:
Tournament opening         Friday, September 1st, 2023, at 9.00 am
Tournament closing           Sunday, September 3rd, 2023 approx. 20.00 pm

TIMETABLE:
Will be published on August 30th, 2023 on the official website www.engineersplaytennis.hr.

RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE:
Right to participate have all engineers of all professions, which includes: engineers, graduate engineers, bachelors and masters of engineering and doctors engineer.
All players can participate only with signed Waiver. Waiver has to be delivered to the organizer according to Registration guidelines and the signed original is submitted at the Registration center upon the arrival to the tournament.

EARLY REGISTRATION:
The deadline for early registration is August 1st, 2023.

REGISTRATION:
The deadline for registration is August 24th, 2023.
Guidelines for registration can be found on the website www.engineersplaytennis.hr/en/registration.
All players have to submit the completed and signed registration form, a signed Waiver, a payment confirmation for the tournament participation fee and at the first registration to this tournament, a copy of the engineering diploma and passport copy, or identity card copy for Croatian citizens. Delivery method is described in the Registration guidelines.

TOURNAMENT PARTICIPATION FEE:

Tournament Participation fee includes participating on the Tournament, entry to dinner party and awards for first three places.

CATEGORIES:
Ladies singles: W30-, W30+, W40+, W50+, W60+
Gentlemen singles: M35-, M35+, M45+, M55+, M65+
Ladies doubles: WΣ100-, WΣ100+
Gentlemen doubles: MΣ110-, MΣ110+
Mix doubles: MixΣ105-, MixΣ105+

DRAW:
Will be defined by the organizers, but in order for better estimation of group difficulties, each player at the registration has to state their playing experience in the following way: former player / senior ranked player / senior without ranking / recreational player
Each player has right to play in two categories, one single and one doubles, or two categories in doubles.
Each male player and each female player will be assured to play minimally 3 matches if playing singles.
In case of a small number of players/doubles in one or more age categories, the older age category will join with first younger category.

PLAYING RULES:
The tournament is played according to ITF Rules for senior player tournaments.
In the preliminary round (round robin) matches will be played by the system of long running sets (long set on 9 won games), i.e. matches without sets, on 9 won games with a tie-break rule.
In play-offs matches will be played through the best of 3 sets (a player/doubles needs to win 2 sets to win the match). First two sets in a match are played on 6 won games, with a tie-break rule. In case of 1:1 result in sets, instead of the third set a tie-break on 10 won points will be played.
Supreme referee will set up a play off draw and schedule according to number of players and doubles in categories. Play off will be played for all places in all categories.

RANKING:
Ranking on this tournament will be the basis for defining seeds of the tournament and group difficulties for the following tournaments over the next years.

AWARDS:
Trophies will be award for first three places and for fair-play in all categories.

BALLS:
Matches will be played with ITF certificated balls.

COURTS:
Red clay

TRAINING COURTS:
Can be reserved by e-mail till the opening of the tournament, after the match schedule is published, or directly at the registration center when the tournament has already began. Training courts costs are not included in the tournament fee and they are extra paid by the tariff of the tennis center.

AGE CATEGORIES:
Age categories are defined by the year of birth. Players can not play in older age categories.
Sum of years in doubles, according to years of birth, have to be higher than the sum of years in category specification.

TERMS OF PLAYING:
Players are playing on their own risk. Organizers do not take responsibility for any registered player, especially for their personal health, medical condition or possible injuries or accidents.

REGISTRATION CANCELATION:
The deadline for canceling the registration is August 24th, 2023 with return of the whole participation fee. After deadline, organizer will return 50% of participation fee. After the tournament has started there will be no return of participation fee. For return of the appropriate amount of registration fee, participation has to be canceled in written form to e-mail address info@engineersplaytennis.hr according to specified deadlines.

FINAL TERMS:
To all players we want great sport success, and to all participants of the tournament, the competitors and their companions, sport officials, referees and stuff a pleasant stay in Zagreb.

Organizing Committee:
M.Sc. Petar Cota sr., PE, president
Petar Cota jr., M.SC.EE, member
Antonio Obratov, M.SC.EE, member
Mario Radanović, M.SC.EE, member
Josip Samaržija, M.SC.GE, member
Dejan Fabris, M.SC.EE, member
Robert Tudor, M.SC.PE, member

For all other information: www.engineersplaytennis.hr, info@engineersplaytennis.hr