PLAYERS SECTION V - TOURNAMENT DRAWS AND SCHEDULING Exempt Spot, the reserved spot shall be immediately filled by  the next in player from the main draw alternate list. See Section III.B.1 – Direct Acceptance. See Section III.C – Wild Cards. The minimum number of places in the Qualifying Draw will be sixteen  (16) (except at WTA 125 Tournaments), consisting of some or all of the  following:  b.  Qualifying Singles i.  Direct Acceptance  ii.  Wild Cards  iii. Alternates (a) Sign-In Procedures If there are open spots in the draw and no On-Site Alternates, the  open spots will revert to the Tournament Director as Additional Wild  Card spots. These Wild Cards will count towards a player’s yearly  allotment of Wild Cards.  If a Qualifying Wild Card withdraws before the Qualifying Draw has  started, the Tournament Director may name an alternate Wild Card,  even if the Wild Card nomination deadline has passed. (See Section  III.C.5 - Filling Vacant Wild Card Spots.) The Qualifying Alternate Next-In List will be frozen at the Freeze  Deadline. If there is no Qualifying draw, the Freeze Deadline will  be 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York, USA Time) on the Thursday  before the Tournament week. After the Freeze Deadline, no  more Alternates will be moved into the Qualifying Draw and  such alternate players are no longer committed to play the  Tournament. Players on the Alternate List can preserve their  eligibility for possible Qualifying Draw positions by signing in  with a WTA Operations staff member or the Supervisor by 4:00  p.m. tournament local time on the day before the start of the  Qualifying Draw. (i)  The Sign-In deadline for Alternates is thirty (30) minutes  prior to the scheduled start of play for the day.  63