Welcome to the Forums!

For a long time we've sensed an ever growing active community among our readers, and here's a chance to engage in discussions generated from stories on the site.

This is additional space, so using the comments in the individual articles is still encouraged. Vibrant discussions take place and we hope that vitality will thrive here as well. Inside-Tennis.net welcomes your participation in our Discussion Forums. These forums offer you the chance to interact with leaders and experts in our community, with the journalists, editors and management of Inside-Tennis.net, and with other Inside-Tennis.net users. We ask that you Post with respect for all players - people in the news, journalists, fellow forum participants, etc.

In order to keep these forums enjoyable and interesting for all of our users, we ask simply that you follow these minimal rules. By participating in the Discussion Forums, you are consenting to these rules. Violators may be warned, suspended from posting, or barred from the forums or chats, at the sole discretion of the Inside-Tennis.net staff.

1. Exercise common sense and be considerate toward your fellow users. Diversity of opinion and intelligent civil discourse is encouraged; by the same token, insults and Â?flamingÂ? are not tolerated. Disagreeing with an idea of another community member is different from attacking that individual.

2. Do not post off-topic. Please keep your comments consistent with the subject and purpose of the conversation thread. Deliberate disruption -- such as consistent off-topic commentary -- will not be tolerated.

3. Inside-Tennis.net staff reserve the right to delete posts and/or whole conversations we determine are of an irrelevant, abusive or disruptive nature.

4. This is your community - let us or your fellow posters know if you feel things are getting off-topic or inappropriate.

5. Although we love the extra information and sources you bring to very forum, due to copyright issues, please do not quote entire news articles from other sources; small excerpts and/or a link keeps things legal.

6. While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.

7. Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed.

8. We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate Inside-Tennis.net community standards. The Inside-Tennis.net team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

9. Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.

10. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.

11. We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privledge and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.