Frequently asked questions

Open the tournament page, check that the status chip says “Entries open”, and use the entry link in the sidebar. Entries close on the date shown on the page — usually twelve days before the first day of play. You will get a confirmation email with the payment reference; your name appears on the public entry list once the fee is received.

Write to the tournament office anyway. Late entries go on the waiting list in the order they arrive and are promoted whenever somebody withdraws — which happens at almost every event. Waiting-list players are told by the evening before play whether they are in.

Enter as “partner wanted”. You appear on the entry list on your own, and the office pairs you with another single entry of a similar grade before the draw is made. If nobody suitable turns up, the fee for that event is refunded in full.

Two as a rule: one singles and one doubles, or two doubles. A third is allowed only when the schedule has room, and the office will tell you before the draw. Playing three events on a one-day stage usually means matches back to back.

Entry fees are shown in Georgian lari on every tournament page: a first-event fee, a lower fee for each additional event, and an early-bird price for players who enter before the date given. Juniors pay a reduced fee at most stages.

By bank transfer to the account shown on the contact page, using the reference given in your confirmation email, or in cash at the control desk on the day. Cash payers should arrive thirty minutes before their first match.

Yes, in full until entries close, and after that only on production of a medical certificate. If an event is cancelled by the organizer, every fee for that event is refunded. The full wording is in the entry fee and refund policy on the documents page.

Most events are straight knockout with seeded byes when the entry is not a power of two. Junior events with sixteen or more entries start with round-robin groups so that every child plays at least three matches, and the top two of each group go through to the knockout.

Best of three games to 21, rally scoring, win by two, and a hard cap at 30 — so 30–29 decides a game that stays level. Players call their own lines except on the show court, where an umpire sits for semi-finals and finals.

They split amateur draws by standard so that a first-season player is not drawn against a former national squad member. A is the strongest, D is for players in their first year. If you are unsure, enter C and tell us — the office moves people between grades before the draw, not after.

Every finished event awards points by final placement, scaled by the level of the tournament — an international event pays roughly three times what a club event does. Points are listed per discipline and age group, and each row on the ranking page can be expanded to show exactly which tournaments produced the total.

Indoor non-marking shoes (halls turn people away for black soles), your own racket, and a water bottle. Feather shuttlecocks are provided from the quarter-finals onwards; group and early-round matches are played with the shuttle the organizer hands out at the desk.

With a U11 singles event at a junior stage, or with a club session first — clubs in all five cities run junior groups and most will lend a racket for the first month. Junior events use group stages, so a nine-year-old is guaranteed several matches rather than one and a long drive home.

No. Every player, entry list, draw, score and ranking row here is generated demo content, and the tournaments are illustrative. A handful of venues and clubs are based on publicly documented real places and are marked as needing verification; nothing else on the site describes a real event or a real person.