b. Timing 

i. The earliest a player’s Return to Competition may occur is in a match scheduled during the same calendar week in which her Out-of- Competition Period reaches twenty-six (26) weeks. 

ii. A player has fifty-two (52) weeks from the date of her Return to Competition to use her Special Ranking (“Special Ranking Period”). 

iii. The latest a player may use her Special Ranking is at a Tournament scheduled the same calendar week in which her Special Ranking expires. 

iv. If a player has both singles and doubles Special Rankings, her Return to Competition for both Special Rankings begins at the same time. 

c. Procedures 

i. Special Ranking Freeze Petition 

(a) Subsequent Medical Condition 

If any player’s Return to Competition occurs and before her Special Ranking expires she subsequently is Out of Competition for a minimum of thirteen (13) weeks because of a Medical Condition, she may request to “freeze” her Special Ranking Period by completing and submitting another Special Ranking Application; provided, however, that regardless of any “freeze,” a player’s Special Ranking expires no later than the date that is 156 weeks after: 

(i) for a Special Ranking originally for a Medical Condition or Parental Start, the beginning of a player’s original Out-of- Competition Period; and 

(ii) for a Special Ranking originally for Pregnancy, the end of the Pregnancy. 

(b) Subsequent Pregnancy or Parental Start 

If before a player’s Special Ranking expires (but regardless of whether her Return to Competition has occurred) she subsequently is Out of Competition for Pregnancy or a Parental Start, she may complete and submit another Special Ranking Application to request either: 

