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When you’re exchanging information with a client or supplier it is very likely that you both have an id for the Person. To make exchange easier TODS allows for any number of additional IDs to be included with Person. See ‘Including Multiple Identifiers’ for more information.


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titleWorld Tennis ID

Where it is known we strongly recommend using the Tennis ID as the globally unique ID for any player or other person. This can be provided by the ITF for any individual and is the easiest way to ensure that a single unique record for a person is maintained across multiple systems and sources.

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TODS allows for different forms or representations of names for a Person to be provided so that clients can use the best one for their situations.• PreferredGivenName/PreferredFamilyNameproviding flexibility for use of across different languages.

  • NativeGivenName/NativeFamilyName: the name written in the local language script of source/client (as agreed between parties).
  • StandardGivenName/StandardFamilyName: the name, in

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  • Latin script, that the person is usually known by. For example Andy Murray rather than Andrew Murray.

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  • This will usually be a translation or transliteration of the Native Name.
  • PassportGivenName/PassportFamilyName: the person's name in ASCII characters (A-Z only), as

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  • shown in the person's passport.

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  • This form of the name is commonly used to aid deduplication of records across different databases and data systems.

For more information on use of names see Transliteration of Names to Latin Script

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