AGE ELIGIBILITY AND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT SECTION X - AGE ELIGIBILITY AND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT v.  17 Years of Age (a) AER Tournament Allotment (b)  AER Wild Card Allotment Between the date of a player’s 17th birthday and the day before her  18th birthday, her AER Tournament Allotment and AER Wild Card  Allotment are as follows.  A player may participate in a maximum of sixteen (16)  Professional Tennis Tournaments. Once a player reaches 17 years of age, she may accept the WTA  and Women’s ITF World Tennis Tour calendar year Wild Card  maximums. (See Section III.C.3 for information on WTA Wild  Card maximums.) The number of Wild Cards she may accept  pursuant to the Wild Card Rule is calculated over the course of  the Tour Year in which she turned 17 (i.e., any Wild Cards used  under the AER by the player in that Tour Year prior to turning  17 will count toward the total number of Wild Cards permitted  under the Rules). A player 18 years of age or older may participate in an unlimited  number of Professional Tennis Tournaments. A player may accept the WTA and Women’s ITF World Tennis  Tour calendar year Wild Card maximums. vi.  18 Years of Age and Older (a)  AER Tournament Allotment (b)  AER Wild Card Allotment b.  WTA Finals and WTA Elite Trophy Pursuant to Section X.A.2.a.ii, a player 14 years of age may not participate  in the WTA Finals or WTA Elite Trophy. A player 15 years of age or older is eligible to participate in the WTA  Finals and WTA Elite Trophy. Participation in the WTA Finals and WTA  Elite Trophy by direct acceptance by a player between 15 and 17 years  of age will not count toward her AER Tournament Allotment. However,  participation in the WTA Elite Trophy by Wild Card by a player between  15 and 17 years of age will count toward her AER Tournament Allotment.  176