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• Aliens with Asylee Status. Aliens who have been granted Asylee
Status.
• Aliens with Temporary Protected Status. Aliens who have been
granted Temporary Protected Status.
• Aliens with Adjustment Status. Aliens whose I-485 (Application to
Register Permanent Resident or Adjust Status) has been accepted
for filing.
• British Columbians. Canadian citizens and landed Canadian
immigrants who reside in British Columbia.
FAC Comment X.C-1: Documents commonly used to support a particular alien
status include a permanent resident alien card (green card), Form I-94, and a
receipt confirming filing of the I-485.
D. Adult National Open Rankings
1. Points Per Round Ranking System. Rankings in the Adult National Open
Men’s and Women’s singles and individual doubles ranking categories
shall be based on a points per round ranking system. The Adult National
Open ranking period for all players shall be January 1 through December
31. Annually the USTA Pro Circuit Department shall determine:
• The tournaments that shall be considered for ranking;
• The ranking points that shall be assigned to each round in each
tournament;
• How byes, withdrawals, walkovers, disqualifications, defaults, and
retirements are handled; and
• How ranking ties are broken.
This information shall be published on the USTA website. Eligible players
must meet the minimum tournament participation requirements listed in
Table 20 to be ranked.
2. Corrections. Player records shall be published on the USTA website.
Players should check their records and submit verifiable additions and
corrections to the USTA Pro Circuit Department. Periodic updates to
the year-end rankings may be published after additions and corrections
are verified.
E. Professional/Adult National Open Rankings
1. Professional/Adult National Open rankings. Rankings in the
Professional/Adult National Open Men’s and Women’s singles and
individual doubles ranking categories are a composite of the most
recently published year-end ATP or WTA rankings and the Professional/
Adult National Open rankings described in USTA Regulation X.D. The
Professional/Adult National Open Ranking Period for all players shall be
January 1 through December 31. Eligible players must meet the minimum
tournament participation requirements listed in Table 20 to be ranked.
FAC Comment X.E-1: The Professional/Adult National Open ranking list is
also called the “Top 500 List” as it is used by the ITF to determine the top
500 ranked players for the purposes of selection into qualifying for ITF
professional tournaments.
a. Men’s Division. Eligible players shall be ranked in the following
order:
USTA REGULATIONS X.E. (Professional/Adult National Open Rankings) 193