AGE ELIGIBILITY AND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT SECTION X - AGE ELIGIBILITY AND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Subject to Merited Increases in sub-Section 4 below, a player under 18  years of age may participate in the specified number of Professional  Tennis Tournaments (“AER Tournament Allotment”) and accept the  specified number of Wild Cards (“AER Wild Card Allotment”) per birth  year (i.e. birthday to birthday) as described below. If a player receives a  Wild Card into a Professional Tennis Tournament, participation in that  Tournament will count toward her AER Tournament Allotment. A player who has not yet reached the date of her 14th birthday may  not participate in any Professional Tennis Tournament. Between the date of a player’s 14th birthday and the day before  her 15th birthday, she may earn a WTA Ranking, but she may not  participate in WTA Tournaments by direct acceptance or participate  in the WTA Finals or WTA Elite Trophy by direct acceptance or Wild  Card. i.  Under 14 Years of Age ii.  14 Years of Age (a)  AER Tournament Allotment (b)  AER Wild Card Allotment The AER Tournament Allotment and AER Wild Card Allotment for a  player 14 years of age are as follows. A player may participate in a maximum of eight (8) Professional  Tennis Tournaments, no more than three (3) of which may be  at Women’s ITF World Tennis Tour events with prize money of  $60,000 and above.  A player may accept a maximum of three (3) Wild Cards as  follows: (i)  One (1) Wild Card for use into the Main Draw or Qualifying  Draw of a WTA 250 Tournament, WTA 125 Tournament, or  Women’s ITF World Tennis Tour event; (ii) One (1) Wild Card for use into the Main Draw or Qualifying  Draw of a WTA 125 Tournament or Women’s ITF World  Tennis Tour event; and 174