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Overview- THE GLTA WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS

This competition is open to all male and female players who compete in a minimum of three (3) GLTA tournaments (in singles AND/OR doubles) during the calendar year- one of your tournaments must be outside of your home state/province/country. If our women play in both the men's AND women's draws they will be eligible to compete in the Champions Race competition. Of course, the more tournaments you play the better your chances are of accumulating points.

Date of Competition
The GLTA WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS will be played in early February of each year.

The location of the Tournament will rotate between North America and Europe. The 2011 Champions Race Final is scheduled to take place at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA, on February 3-5, 2012

Cost of competition
The GLTA reserves the right to charge a fee of up to $75 per Champions Race entrant.

Eligibility -

Exceptions : If you advanced to the SF round of a higher division, you would not be eligible to play in the division where you earned the most Champions Race points. Also, if you earned an equal amount of points in two divisions, you would be required to play in the higher division.

If you played equally in two separate divisions during the year, you would be required to play in the higher division for the GLTA WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS. The GLTA Rankings committee will make all finals decisions regarding divisional placements.

The GLTA Executive Board of Directors selects five MASTERS SERIES EVENTS each year, and all players will receive double points for winning matches in any of the five MASTERS SERIES EVENTS.

If you have any questions regarding your eligibility, do not hesitate to contact us at info@glta.net.

Eligibility - Doubles
Male and female players will be competing as individual doubles players throughout the year, therefore,it is not necessary to play with the same partner to qualify for this competition.The top 8 players in each division- Open, A, B, C and D doubles will be invited to participate first.

In the event that one of these players cannot participate, the next player(s) in line will be invited to play until there are 8 in each division.

The rules listed above for Singles will also apply to divisional placement for the Doubles event.

Points System
The Champions Race points system is completely separate from the GLTA Ranking system.  

Champions Race points will be posted to the GLTA website and updated on a regular basis. Points are accumulated as follows: 

1 point is awarded per round won.  An additional 5 points are awarded for semi-finals and a further 10 points for the winner. Points are awarded for bye rounds or walkovers provided the player wins the next round. Playing in a Masters Series Tournaments attract double points.