International Competition -GUIDE to The 3rd HUNGARIAN INTERNATIONAL SOFT TENNIS TOURNAMENTS



GUIDE to The 3rd HUNGARIAN INTERNATIONAL SOFT TENNIS TOURNAMENTS

1. Name of Event

The 3rd Hungarian International Soft Tennis Tournaments

2. Organized by:


Hungarian Soft Tennis Association / HSTA /

3. Nature of the event

An official international event acknowledged by the International
Soft Tennis Federation and the European Soft Tennis Association as well

4. Managed by:

Hungarian International Tournaments Organization Committee
/ HITOC / 5. Term of the event: 4-6 May, 2007

Opening Ceremony:

6. Place: Budapest, Hungary

7. Competition Venue: GRAND SLAM PARK


Address: 1111 Budapest, Kapolcs utca 2/a
Courts: 6 outdoor clay courts

8. Accommodation: Hotels in Budapest

(The details will be informed later.)

9. Kinds of the event:

Individual doubles for men and women
Individual singles for men and women
Individual mixed doubles

10. Schedule of the event


3rd of May, 2007 (Thursday)
arrival at Budapest, transfer to the Tennis courts,
training for whole day

4th of May, 2007 (Friday)
Opening Ceremony
Individual doubles for men and women

5th of May, 2007 (Saturday)
Individual singles for men and women

6th of May, 2007 (Sunday)
Individual mixed doubles
Commendation Ceremony
Banquet

7th of May, 2007 (Monday)
transfer to the airport
departure at Budapest

11. Eligibility

Participating players shall be those who have been approved by those
respective national soft tennis federations which are invited to participate in the event.
All ISTF member countries are invited to enter.

12. Entries for competitions shall be made for players recommended by the invited national federations and be applied by the respective national federation. There will be no any limit of number for players,

And not even for the team leaders.
Total entry fee shall be EUR280.- (or US$ equivalent to EUR280.-)/person for four days which covers accommodation, meals (at the places designated by HITOC) for four days. (The payment shall be made in cash. The payment by a credit card and/or traveler’s checks are not acceptable.) Transportation between Budapest airport and the hotels (which will be informed later) and transportation between the hotels and the courts will be arranged by HITOC.
Hungary as host country can enter an unlimited number of players.
Acceptance or rejection of invitation shall be made no later than 28th February, 2007 which will be considered as a pre-entry. Entries by name of players shall be made before 31 March, 2007. Entries shall be accepted on the designated entry form with names, sex, the dates of birth, and others as required for the participating players.
The entry form is attached with this Guide. The entry via fax shall
also be acceptable.
In the case of the entry of more than one / 1 / participant for the same one event from the same one national federation, the player’s list for entry shall be arranged in the order of their ranking among them.
Any change in the entry after the deadline date of entry shall not be accepted.

13. Rules and regulations for competitions

Competition shall be conducted in accordance with the effective Rules of Soft Tennis of ISTF. The official language shall be English.
A tournament system shall be applied for matches of doubles, singles, and mixed doubles. Double and mixed double matches shall be played by the best of nine games system and single matches shall be played by the best of seven game system.

14. Draw

The draw shall be decided in a fair manner by the HITOC, considering the world ranking.

15. Conditions for participation

Participating team members of respective countries shall fulfill the conditions of respective items as under mentioned.
- Players shall abide by the rules and regulations of ISTF and
behave based on sportsmanship and in an orderly manner.

Players shall observe directions of the host federation regarding their whereabouts and behaviors during the term of the event. In? case of any of them need to behave otherwise than specified as above, the player shall be obliged to submit the detailed information, such as schedule, whereabouts and purpose of their travel or others, to the host federation and obtain it’s permission in advance.

Uniforms, shoes and other attire to be used for competition shall be those made for Soft Tennis.

Rackets to be used for competitions shall conform to the

specifications specified in the Rules of Soft Tennis of ISTF.

Commercial displays on players uniform are not limited.

16. Balls to be used shall be those produced by NAGASE KENKO.

17. The first, second and third place winners shall be commended by


cups in the event.

18. All the competition officials shall be designated by HITOC.


19. World Ranking Point

The World Ranking System shall be applicable to the event/s
where the number of participants satisfied the conditions provided in the World Ranking System.
In this regard, the applicable event/s shall be announced to the participants prior to the tournaments.

20. The official sponsors of the competitions shall be decided by HSTA.




Budapest, 4th of February, 2007


Gabor Lukacs
President of HSTA

Andras Bedo
Vice President of HSTA


1121 Budapest, Normafa ut 2., fszt. 2, Hungary
tel: +36-30-941-3887 (for Gabor Lukacs)
fax:+36-1-395-0051
e-mail address: szofttenisz@axelero.hu




Infomation

Reference:info@jsta.or.jp tel:81-(0)3-3481-2366/Fax:81-(0)3-3481-5055