Tournament Support


Tournament Support As a tournament director, you do a lot of the heavy lifting of the sport. You spend countless hours putting on the best tournaments you can, sometimes year after year, enthusiastically promoting platform tennis out of a passion for the sport and the community of players.

The APTA supports your efforts, and with the resources below we hope to make your job a little easier. We have gone to the best and most experienced tournament directors to build a library of information including advice, practical details and best practices.

Tournament Director Handbook

Tournament Director Handbook    If you only open one document, this is this one. It helps you calculate courts, matches, balls, volunteers and much more. (November, 2009)

Resources

Chair Umpire Handbook
Umpire Scorecard		 These two documents are indispensible for umpires on the court. The handbook details preparation and conduct. The scorecard provides easy and accurate documentation of the score during the match. The APTA also has printed scorecards. Please contact us for that format. (July, 2010)
How to Conduct a Draw This document details how many seeds and placements you should have, where to put seeds, placements and byes on draws from 16 to 128 teams, procedures for withdrawals and late entrants, and how to conduct the draw process. (December, 2009)
Draw Sheets in Detail This document details how to create and format effective draws.
Contents: Match Time & Back Draw Annotations (September, 2009)
Rules of Platform Tennis Sixteenth Edition, September 2009
Standardized Warm-Up Tested by time-stressed leagues, this 15 minute standardized warm-up will help control the pace of your tournament. (September, 2009)
APTA Committees This page gives you the membership of each APTA committee. Just above the committees is the Board of Directors list. If you can't find the person you need here, please contact the APTA using the contact information above. (September, 2009)
 APTA Links & Logos Logos you can use on your tournament documentation and links to this web site and our on-line registration system. (November, 2009)
  

Draw Sheet Library

Complete Draws with Back Draws

64 Teams  Excel
48 Teams  Excel
32 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel
24 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel
16 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel
  8 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel

Single Page Draws

32 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel
16 Teams  PDF   Word   Excel

File Options

PDF Format is not editable.
It is suitable for printing and filling in by hand.

Word format is editable.
It is suitable for adding teams, seeds, locations & times, logos, sponsor information, etc.

Excel format is editable.
It is suitable for adding teams, seeds, locations & times, logos, sponsor information, etc.