TENNIS

We have now held six annual mock drafts on our FANTASYDRAFTHELP.COM INSIDER program.  Here are our suggested guidelines and our 2012 draft board.

SUGGESTED LEAGUE GUIDELINES

^ Ideally, a league should be configured using standard serpentine rules.

^ A league should contain five owners selecting five players apiece, with each team consisting of two men, two women and one extra "wild card" pick of either gender.

^ Tournaments utilized are the Masters events on the men's tour and the Premier events on the women's tour, in addition to the Grand Slam events.  All points for the Grand Slam events are doubled -- and here is how points are awarded in the standard 10 tournaments on each tour: 3 points for making the quarterfinals, an additional 5 points for making the semifinals, an additional 7 points for making the finals and and additional 10 points for winning the tournament.

2012 Fantasy Draft Board

TOP TIER

1 Novak Djokovic

2 Roger Federer

3 Rafael Nadal

SECOND TIER

4 Petra Kvitova

5 Caroline Wozniacki

6 Andy Murray

7 Serena Williams

8 Li Na

9 Samantha Stosur

10 Kim Clijsters

11 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

12 Maria Sharapova

13 Victoria Azarenka

14 Agnieszka Radwasnka

THIRD TIER

15 Venus Williams

16 Juan Martin Del Potro

17 David Ferrer

18 Andy Roddick

19 Gael Monfils

FOURTH TIER

20 Tomas Berdych

21 Sabine Lisicki

22 Maria Kirilenko

23 Milos Raonic

24 Robin Soderling

25 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

26 Daniela Hantuchova

27 Ana Ivanovic