Welcome to the Western Australian Pickleball Singles Classic scheduled on April 13th & 14th April 2024 at the Nollamara Tennis Club, Perth.

The Nollamara Tennis Club is a licensed venue with a cafeteria, so food and drinks are for available to purchase.

This is a Pickleball Australia SANCTIONED tournament.

This tournament will use the current USA Pickleball (USAPA) rules. They can be found at: https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/

Specific details are listed below:

REGISTRATION

Registration Opens: 18th February, 2024 @ 8am

Registration Closes: 3rd April, 2024 @ 8pm

NOTE: Don't leave registration or event changes to the last moment. While we don't want to, there may be occasion that we have to close registration earlier than scheduled.

- To register you will need to have a Pickleball Brackets account, if you do not then create a free Pickleball Brackets login and profile. Profile must contain your contact number, email & PAA ID number.

- You may enter in more than one event during the tournament. but each event needs to be in a different category e.g Singles & Skinny Singles.

ENTRY FEES

- Western Australian residents registering must be a PAWA Ordinary member, or PAWA Junior member including PAA membership.

- Registrants from other Australian states, or international must hold current PAA membership.

- EARLY BIRD before 11:59pm 18th March 2024 - $35.00/player including First Event. Second Event is $15.00.

- After 11:59pm 18th March 2024 - $45.00/player including First Event. Second Event is $15.00.

EVENTS

- Saturday – Skinny Singles

- Sunday - Singles

NOTE: DEPENDING ON NUMBERS OF ENTRANTS WE MAY CONSOLIDATE INTO ONE DAY (SATURDAY)

Qualifying games will be a round robin format and finals will be elimination

- You can play in more than one event during the tournament but a max of 1 event per category ie 1 Skinny Singles & 1 Singles.

- Qualifying matches will be 1 game to 15.

- Medal finals matches will be best out of three games to 11.

- Players are guaranteed three games.

- Medals will be awarded to Gold, Silver and Bronze winning competitors for each bracket.

NOTE: Tournament rules for the Skinny Singles (known as Mini Singles in the USA) will be as per https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/.

DELAYS

If you are unavoidably detained and it appears that you will not arrive in time for your game/match, please contact the Tournament Director. We may be able to adjust the schedule and consider options but your game may result in a forfeit.

If you are more than 10 minutes late for your game your result may be a forfeit!

PAA have an Australia Rankings (AR) points system across Australia. This will be available for players to receive ranking points at this tournament for Coed and Singles Advanced and Open events. Skinny Singles will not have AR points.

At this point of time in Western Australia our members ratings are not yet at a mature point therefore we have named the skill in events as "Novice", "Intermediate" and "Advanced”.

Please carefully consider your skill level, as the Tournament Officials will know the majority of players and will reserve the right to reallocate players into skill levels that reflects their skill level.

DIRECTOR'S DISCRETION

The tournament director reserves the right to:

- review, and possibly alter the rating of players who self-rate below or above their actual ability.

- move players and teams between skill level brackets if on verification the wrong event has been entered.

- merge or split brackets based on event registration. Any event with fewer than 4 entries will be combined with another event of closest possible standard.

- change start times to facilitate smooth running of the tournament

- right to modify the events and/or schedule as needed pending influences beyond our control (ie. Fire drill, Covid restrictions, etc).

Volunteers for Tournament and Officiating is always appreciated. If you wish to assist please do so using the Volunteer and Referring registration button on the Tournament page.

Refunds are available up until the close of registration but will incur a $5 service fee.

No refunds will be offered once registration is closed.