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XVIII. AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS
A. Definitions
Amateur and professional tennis players are within the jurisdiction of the USTA.
1. Amateur shall not receive pecuniary advantage because of skills as tennis
player. A tennis player is an amateur if the player does not receive and
has not received, directly or indirectly, pecuniary advantage by the
playing, teaching, demonstrating, or pursuit of the game except as
expressly permitted by the USTA.
2. Definition of professional. All other tennis players who accept the
authority of, and who are in good standing with, the USTA shall be
designated as professionals.
3. Amateur remains amateur throughout tournament. A player starting play
in a tournament as an amateur shall remain an amateur for the purposes
of that tournament.
B. Warning
Acceptance of the expenses or prizes or undertaking employment allowed by
these regulations may jeopardize the amateur’s eligibility under rules and
regulations of the amateur’s school or another amateur organization in which
the amateur is interested. Before accepting any expenses or prizes or
undertaking any tennis related employment, an amateur should consider the
eligibility rules of the amateur’s school and any other amateur organization in
which the amateur is interested.
C. Acts That Will Cause Loss of Amateur Status
1. Prize money. An amateur may not play for a money prize or any other
prohibited prize or sell a prize or transfer the right to a prize to another
person.
2. Teaching and coaching. An amateur may not teach, coach, instruct, or
demonstrate the game except as authorized in USTA Regulation XVIII.D.
3. Films and books. An amateur may not accept money or gain pecuniary
advantage by permitting the taking of tennis action films or television
films of the amateur or by permitting the use of his or her name as the
author of any book or article on tennis of which he or she is not the actual
author.
4. Services. An amateur may not accept money for services not actually
rendered.
5. Endorsements. An amateur may not permit the amateur’s name,
initials, or likeness to be placed on tennis equipment or apparel of which
the amateur is not the actual manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or seller.
An amateur may not permit the use of the amateur’s name, initials, or
likeness in the advertising or other sales promotion of any goods of any
manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or seller.
D. Acts That Amateur May Engage in Without Losing Amateur Status
1. Reasonable expenses actually incurred. An amateur may be
reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually incurred in connection with
participation in a tournament, match, or exhibition. See USTA
Regulation XVIII.E.
2. Scholarships to school. An amateur may receive a scholarship or other
benefits authorized by the amateur’s school that do not affect eligibility as
a tennis player for the school.
220 USTA REGULATIONS XVIII.A. (Definitions)