Guidelines for The 4 th Thailand Open International Soft Tennis Championship 2015 23 th - 27 th March 2015 1. Name of the event: The 4 th Thailand Open International Soft Tennis Championship 2015 2. Organized by: Soft Tennis Association of Thailand (STAT) 3. Period: 21 th - 29 th March 2015 4. Place: Ramkhamhaeng Huamark- Bangkok, Thailand 5. Accommodation: The Sc Park Hotel (http://www.scparkhotel.com/) 6. Competition Venue: The Sport Authority of Thailand (Ramkhamhaeng Huamark- Bangkok, Thailand) Total 6 hard courts (http://www.sat.or.th/th/sport-service/huamark-stadium.aspx?lang=en) 7. Events: 1) Team Events - Men s and Women s 2) Individual Events - Singles for Men's - Singles for Women's - Doubles for Men's - Doubles for Women's - Mixed Doubles 3) Junior Singles Event - Under 15 and Under 18 Boy's & Girl's 8. Schedule of the Event: Saturday 21 th March - Arrivals of participating countries in Suvarnabhumi International Airport. - Check in The Sc Park Hotel Wangthonglang - Bangkok. Sunday 22 th March - Official practice day for all players 10:00-12:00 am. and 2:00-4:00 pm. - Manager s Meeting. (3:00 pm.) Monday 23 th March - 9:00 am. Junior competition all games to 8 round or until 4:00 pm. - 9:00 am. Individual competition (Singles) Men s and Women s all games to 8 round or until 4:00 pm. - 11:00 pm. Individual competition (Singles) Men s and Women s all games to 8 round or until 4:00 pm. ( Consolation round )
Tuesday 24 th March - 9:00 am. Junior competition all games from previous day to final round. - 9:00 am. Individual competition (Singles) Men s and Women s from previous day to final round. - 9:30 am. Individual competition (Singles) Men s and Women s from previous day to final round. ( Consolation round ) - 11:00 am. Individual competition (Doubles) Men s and Women s all games to 8 round or until 4:00 pm. - 1:00 pm. Individual competition (Doubles) Men s and Women s all games to 8 round or until 4:00 pm. ( Consolation round ) Wednesday 25 th March - 9:00 am. Individual competition (Doubles) Men s and Women s from previous day to final round. - 9:30 am. Individual competition (Doubles) Men s and Women s from previous day to final round. ( Consolation round ) - 10:30 am. Mixed Doubles all games to final round - Award for the winner individual event. Thursday 26 th March - 9:00 am. Teams competition all games to semifinal or until 4:00 pm. Friday 27 th March - 9:00 am. Teams competition from all games from previous day to be completed. - Farewell Party and Award for the winner team event. Saturday 28 th March - One day Trip to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Lunch Thai Seafood, Shopping at Chatuchak Weekend Market, (Optional) Sunday 29 th March - Check out Hotel in the morning 9. Qualification: Players shall be those who have been approved by those respective National Soft Tennis Federations Which are invited to participate at the event all ISTF member countries are invited to enter. 10. Match Procedures: 1) Rules to be applied: The ISTF Soft Tennis Rules 2) All competition use The Knock-out system Then Consolation system. 3) Decision of Winners: - Team competition: doubles the best of 9 game, Single the best of 7 game ( Double Single Double ) - Individual competition (Singles) Men s and Women s the best of (7) game in the first round unit to be
completed, * Then the best of (5) game in the Consolation round unit to be completed.* - Individual competition (Doubles) Men s and Women s and Mixed the best of (9) game in the first round unit to be completed, * Then the best of (7) game in the Consolation round unit to be completed.* 4) The issues regarding the qualifying matches in item (10-2,10-3) above including the execution of the qualifying matches shall be decided by the organizer, taking into consideration the total number of entries for respective events. The decision shall be announced at the manager s meeting to be held on Sunday 22 th March 2015. 11. Competition Method: 1)The Knock-out system and The Consolation round will be the loser in each round, To play in the loser at the position draws. 2) Above may change depending on the total number of participants in the respective team and individual event. Any changes shall be decided by the organizer and announced at the manager s meeting to be held on Sunday 22 th March 2015. 12. Entries: 1) Teams Competition: 2) Individual Competitions: A player shall be allowed to enter more than one event. i.e. player can enter in singles and doubles and Mixed doubles event. 13. Draw: The respective draws for the Junior and individual events shall be decided by the organizer and announced at the manager s meeting to be held on Sunday 22 th March 2015. 14. Deadline dates for entries (Thailand time, GMT+7): 24.00 hours on Friday 16 th January 2015. Each participating country is requested to send a player s photo either in color or black/white in a passport photo size, titled the photo by the name of player. 15. Address for entries: The entries, to be written in English, shall be made by Email which is to be followed by its original copy to the address as follows: EMAIL: Worranun.wong@gmail.com: MOBILE: +66 9 25153993, +81 7 012753993 ATTN to Mr. Worranun Ratthapobkorrapak is coordinator of competition. Note: After registered, the tournament organizer will send back a confirmation of entries by email. If you do not receive anything, kindly contact the tournament organizer at the number above as soon as possible. 16. Equipment: KENKO soft tennis ball shall be used for all events. Courts, nets, posts and other facilities shall conform to the ISTF rules. 17. Referee and Umpires: The tournament organizer will appoint referee and umpires.
18. Commendations: Commendations will be awarded to the winners in each finalist deciding tournament as follows : 1) Teams: Get Prize Money Trophy-(Medals for players of team) Certificates, and Souvenir. - The first (1 st ) Teams winner 20,000 (667$) - The second (2 nd ) Teams winner 10,000 (334$) - The third (3 rd ) Teams winner 7,000 (234$) -The third (4 th ) Teams winner 5,000 (167$) ** Prize money for this. Participants must have a minimum of 10 Teams.** 2) Singles: 2.1) Individual Singles: Get Prize Money Trophy-(Medals for Consolation) Certificates, and Souvenir. - The first (1 st ) winner 8,000 (267$) - The second (2 nd ) winner 4,000 (134$) - The third (3 rd ) winner 2,000 (67$) / 2 position - Consolation the first (1 st ) winner 1,200 (40$) - Consolation the second (2 nd ) winner 1,000 (34$) - Consolation the third (3 rd ) winner 900 (30$) / 2 position **Prize money for this. Participants must have a minimum of 48 Players.** 2.2) Junior Singles: Under 15 and Under 18 Boy & Girl - Get Prize Money Certificates, and Souvenir. - The first (1 st ) winner 2,000 (67$) - The second (2 nd ) winner 1,500 (50$) - The third (3 rd ) winner 1,000 (34$) / 2 position - Consolation Junior get the Medal and Certificates only. **Prize money for this. Participants must have a minimum of 16 Players.** 3) Individual Doubles and Mixed Doubles: Get Prize Money Trophy-(Medals for Consolation) Certificates, and Souvenir. - The first (1 st ) winner 8,000 (267$) - The second (2 nd ) winner 4,000 (133$) - The third (3 rd ) winner 2,000 (67$) / 2 position - Consolation the first (1 st ) winner 1,200 (40$) - Consolation the second (2 nd ) winner 1,000 (34$) - Consolation the third (3 rd ) winner 900 (30$) / 2 position **Prize money for this. Participants must have a minimum of 24 Pair.** ***If a player not fully, Prize money ratio decreases.*** ***Total prize money is 250,000 (8,334$)***
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DAMNOEN SADUAK FLOATING MARKET Damnernsaduak is believed to be one of a well-known and an attractuve travelling sites. Historically, Damnoenssaduak was actually the name of the canal dug in the reign of King Rama IV by the military men and the people of Rajburi, Samutsakorn and Samutsongkram Province directed by Phayasrisuriyawong, the minister of Defence. In those days without rivers and canals, transportation was almost motionless; King Rama IV with his great concern over the country's future economic growth, he finally had the canal dug to connect the Taachin River in Samutsakorn Province and Maklong River in Samutsongkram Province together. Nowadays Damnoensaduak is one of a provincial district of Rajburi Province. Most people live densely along both sides of the canal from one end of the canal to another.the majority of this people are agriculturists. They grow several different kinds of fruit and vegetable for examples oranges, grapes, papayas, cabbages, bean, onion and etc. The land in this area is naturally fertile. Apart from providing transportation, Damnoensaduak Canal also provides farmers with adequate water for agricultural purposes for the whole year around. More than 200 small canals were dug by local peasants to connect with it to get water to splatter their land. Moreover; these small canals also become protitiouus ways of taking their agricultural products to the markets in neighbouring provinces and Bangkok. Day in and day out from about 8 a.m. to about 11 a.m. the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundrreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats selling and buying or exchanging their goods. What they purchase are particularly food, fruit and vegetable which mostly brought from their own orchards. They usually travel on their small rowing boats. however; today the long-tailed boats pushing by engine become very popular. People tend to use them instead. Anyhow because of the shortage of fuel today long-tailed boats are quite unavailable compared to a few years ago. Damnoen Saduak in Ratchaburi about 109 kilometres south of Bangkok or approximately 2 hours drive.
Chatuchak Weekend Market (or Jatujak Market; Thai: ตลาดจต จ กร) is one of the world's largest weekend markets covers area of 70 rai (27 Acres) altogether divided into 27 Sections, contains more than 15,000 booths selling goods from every part of Thailand. Chatuchak Weekend Market,is very popular shopping centre to Thais and has become a popular place to tourists and foreigners who stay in Bangkok, has over 200,000 visitors each day(sat-sun) 30% is foreign. There are almost everything can be found here at a bargaining local price (not a tourist price), and most vendors actually come from local factories, like antique wood carving, clay handicrafts, local souvenirs from every parts of Thailand, Buddhist amulets, wooden funitures, hand made decorated flowers, plant, ceramic wares, dools, Thai Bejarong, Chinese wares, graden decorated plants, stones, trendy fashions, silk, hill-tribe outfits, fluffy dogs and more miscellaneous, etc. http://www.bangkok.com/shopping-market/popular-markets.html