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2017 Grand Slam Rule Book

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1 GRAND SLAM ® RULES ARTICLE I: GENERAL A. PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY These Grand Slam Rules are promulgated by the Grand Slam Board for the purpose of ensuring the orderly and fair administration of the four Grand Slam Tournaments. Each player entrant in a Grand Slam Tournament agrees as a condition of such entry to abide by and be subject to these Grand Slam Rules, which hereinafter includes the Grand Slam Tournament Regulations and the Grand Slam Code of Conduct, as amended from time to time by the Grand Slam Board. B. GRAND SLAM TOURNAMENTS The Grand Slam Tournaments are the four official International Championships of Australia, France, Great Britain and the United States. Each Grand Slam Tournament offers on-site prize money to the players competing therein based upon their performance at the tournament. C. GRAND SLAM BOARD The Grand Slam Board (GSB) is responsible for the coordination and management of activities of mutual interest to the four Grand Slam Tournaments – The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. These activities include but are not limited to: Grand Slam Rules, Regulations and Code of Conduct, Officiating, Tournament Calendars and all contractual relationships with governing bodies and third parties. D. OPEN COMPETITION / NO DISCRIMINATION The four Grand Slam Tournaments are open for entry to all internationally ranked tennis players based on merit and without discrimination subject only to the conditions herein set forth and to those provisions of the WTA Age Eligibility Rule adopted by the Grand Slam Tournaments and provided, however, that minors under the age of fourteen (14) shall not be eligible for entry. For purposes of this Rule, the player's age as of the first day of the tournament's Main Draw shall be used. E. PUBLICITY, PROMOTION AND DATA Each player grants and assigns to the events that he enters, the right in perpetuity to make, use and show from time to time and at their discretion, motion pictures, still pictures and live, taped or filmed television and other reproductions of him during said events and in connection with the promotion of said events without compensation for himself, his heirs, devisees, executors, administrators or assigns. Each player also agrees to cooperate with the news media and to participate upon request in reasonable promotional activities of the Grand Slam Tournaments. Such

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