04/20/26 – Tennis Regional Instructions Available and Postseason Reminders

April 20, 2026 Athletic Department Blog Updates

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Please see the information below for updates on the 2026 Tennis postseason. Region Tournaments can be held from May 1-17 for the current year. The state tennis individual/doubles tournaments are scheduled to begin with the opening rounds on May 20 across four regional locations, followed by the final rounds on May 26-27 in Lexington. The Team Tennis Tournaments will take place May 28-29 in Lexington.

The region tournament instructions are available on the KHSAA website at https://ly.khsaa.org/jk2a. All coaches and competing schools should take the time to read these items carefully, even veteran coaches, to ensure familiarity with all KHSAA rules and regulations regarding these events.

• Region Tournament Instructions (Tennis information begins on page 23)
• Boys’ Tennis Region Managers
• Girls’ Tennis Region Managers

TEAM TENNIS ENTRY (FORM TN115)

• Form TN115 must be completed and submitted to your respective Region Manager for the team tournament.
• Coaches are to rank (based on strength) their entrants, from 1 to 10 (1 being the strongest).
• This roster of team members may not be changed once submitted to the regional manager.
  • BOYS TN115
  • GIRLS TN115
• Student-athletes playing in the singles and doubles championships may also represent the member school in the team championship series.
• The default format of the event is three singles and two doubles matches.
• You must fill four of the five courts in order to enter the region team tournament.
• Teams may enter that can only fill four of the five courts, but will forfeit the open match.

TEAM MATCH LINE-UP FORM (FORM TN112)

• TN112 (PDF) – https://khsaa.org/forms/tn112.pdf
• This form must be submitted to the regional tournament director one hour prior to play.
• Using the TN112, please list those participants who will play both singles and doubles for that particular match.
• Be careful to remember that the strength of participants must be consistent on both the TN115 and TN112 forms.

ORDER OF PLAY

• Your strength of roster should be consistent with lineups played throughout the season.
• Stacking is not permitted.
• For doubles play, the combined total of each pairing must be played in order of strength (i.e., players submitted 4/6 could not play behind a pairing ranked 5/7).
• UTR information shall be used to gather necessary initial information for Strength of Roster, but can be reviewed during the region seeding meeting if challenged and examined with consideration of additional factors (results, outliers, injuries, etc.).

FORFEITS

• Should a team forfeit a court during the team tournament, it would be either the No. 3 singles or No. 2 doubles.
• If a team forfeits a court when submitting a lineup prior to the match, the opposing team can resubmit its lineup with the knowledge that the other team is forfeiting the court (but cannot view the other team’s lineup).

INDIVIDUAL/DOUBLES COMPETITION

• All entries should be submitted to the regional managers using the TN103 form through the following links:
  • TN103 Boys’ Tennis Entries
  • TN103 Girls’ Tennis Entries

UNIVERSAL TENNIS RATING (UTR)

• UTR information shall be used to gather necessary initial information for seeding consideration.
• Seeding shall be based on the All-Factors Method, considering each entrant’s chances of winning the tournament and shall consider all reasonably available information, including UTR, recent results, and particularly, head-to-head competition.

– KHSAA –

About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 291 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 72 teams and 270 individuals in 21 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.

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