Video from USTA NTRP meeting in Seattle now available

Those of us in the Seattle area were fortunate to have Heather Hawkes from USTA National visit us a couple months ago to hold an information meeting on NTRP ratings.  I wrote up a summary of my takeaways from it, but what could be better than seeing/hearing for yourself?

Well, now you can!  Jill Borgida, our League Coordinator in the Seattle area has made a video available so now anyone that missed the meeting can see Heather's presentation and the answers to folk's questions for yourself.  Thanks Jill!  You can see/download the video here (link was removed, see below).

For those not from Seattle, the majority of the subject matter applies to all USTA League players so it applies to you too, so give it a view if you are interested.

Note that the recording is 90 minutes so allocate a chunk of time if you want to listen to the whole thing.  But the presentation part is only about 35 minutes so a reasonably quick view.

For those that don't have that time, here is a brief table of contents should you wish to jump to a certain part or topic of interest:

• 1:15 - Introduction
• 8:10 - NTRP description, history, purpose
• 12:10 - Why players move up or down
• 15:35 - 3-strike disqualifications
• 18:10 - Appeals
• 19:55 - Myths about NTRP
• 21:50 - Third party sites (pay close attention to what is said at 24:30 😀)
• 25:20 - UTR
• 26:30 - Senior appeals
• 28:45 - Common questions
• 31:00 - Playing up
• 32:25 - Early start ratings
• 37:30 - Q&A begins

Does this answer questions you have?  Or raise more?  Regardless, let me know if you have others as I may have answers.

Update: The link to the Seattle video is no longer available, but a similar meeting was held in Portland the day before and here is the link to that video.