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This is the Tourna-O-Matic input/output widget that lets you explore the technical setup of, sign up for, submit your share of the match scores of, and view all the results of the Kobuleti seaside promenade tennis court community's singles ranking tournament Kobuleti Opinion 2026.

Regarding the thought-provoking name of our tournament, anyone focusing on decoupling one's opinions from the slippery slope of generalizing them to explosive stuff in the reckless territory, as described in the Frequently Asked Questions about the tournament, as closely as watching a tennis ball at contact with one's racket at the deciding points of important matches can call it Kobuleti Open in a meaningful way for the purposes of a constructively selected recreational tennis community where being considerate of each other's dignity as a fellow human being and tennis partner during the current turbulent times has become a priority per se. To be crystal clear here, no unreasonable restrictions to our tournament being open to everyone in respectable soul health (or in some cases committed to getting there without too much of a headache for the organizing committee) and equipped with a racket, a ball, and a strong desire to develop as a tennis player apply.

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As the ranking tournament progresses, all its participants will be listed, all the groups of the various stages of the tournament will be announced, all the match scores will be submitted and presented appropriately, and the final ranking list will be displayed here.

A short overview

Our singles ranking tournament Kobuleti Opinion 2026 is held from May as soon as at least 3 round-robin groups of at least 4 players each at a similar level of play within every group are ready to participate until the end of the low season for the Kobuleti seaside promenade tennis court community to arrange all the participants in order of ranking in matches played without a chair umpire.

Additionally for the visiting and optionally for the local participants, this tournament accommodates tennis-loving tourists in our rankings in the high season when the visitors can compete against those having participated in the low season already but still hanging around in Kobuleti and available for play.

Let's call these tennis-loving communities combined the Hundred Tennis Player Wood community in Kobuleti (we have one in Tallinn for a couple decades already, so we've got a pretty clear idea of what we are doing by now) or the HTPW community for short in the regulations that follow.

In case you can't quite get the spirit of the series of our communities from the sheer name of it, here is a piece of illuminating chat between a participant after having examined the philosophical setup of our Opinion and the (main) organizer of the tournament:

We assume you get the idea, too. Or ask us for help whenever you don't understand this kind of relatively complicated nuisance. And the system servicing these communities is known as Tennis Contacts since 2005 when it went public on the Web or a few years before when it was used by an accommodating student-led little tennis-loving community only on the campus of Tallinn University of Technology, renovating the clay court at the university administration's request for help when the going was tough for alma mater due to the arrogance of the administrative hedgehogs lacking contact with players with adequate know-how and skills. And despite all the talk and even a friendly corruption-breaking contract with those lending a helping hand on clear minimalist terms that explicitly forbade the abuse of authority already having led to alarmingly visible problems with the university tennis court, the Tallinn Tech administration hasn't gotten any better in 24 years despite all the misleading cheap talk, to put it mild...

Helping valuable recreational tennis communities detect and troubleshoot healthy capable contact undermining screwworms like the Maltech (Tallinn Tech ideologically hijacked by Microsoft, that is) administration and blocking the abuse of university students whenever help is needed as a result by such corrupt parasitic actors hiding behind absolutely hypocritical meaningless HS (this is not a typo, by the way – any idea whose poop we are dealing with again?) at corrupt institutions treating students like exploitable slave work force is the DNA of the Tennis Contacts system and the core of the competence underlying the services it provides.

Another optional part of our ranking tournament's technical setup includes the opportunity for everyone in the rankings to leave one's contacts on the tournament website for accessibility to a narrower or wider audience, depending on each participant's personal interest in finding tennis partners during or after the tournament. The exact accessibility permissions can be changed or turned off completely, of course, or the contacts deleted from the system altogether, as each participant deems appropriate.

In line with this short overview, please also take notice of the kind of participants that our tournament is not accommodating.

Venues

Normally, on sunny days, all matches will be played for free on the Kobuleti seaside promenade tennis court.

On rainy days the matches can be played on an indoor tennis court near Batumi Airport in commercial settings if both opponents find it suitable. And to be able to increase the discount we get next time our ranking tournament is held, it is recommended to play some matches on the co-called airport court on non-rainy days, too, as during rain the airport court tends to be fully booked anyway.

Scheduling

The tournament has a flexible schedule with players contacting each other to arrange for matches in our ranking tournament Telegram group specifically created for tournament-related chat shared with (or at least the intention of the organizer is to share it with) the participants of our ranking tournament only.

All matches in both the main part and the optional part of the tournament are scheduled in our Telegram group and should be completed by the end on the summer and fall equinoxes (June 21 and September 22 in 2026), marking the end of the low season and the high season, respectively.

During the first 1-2 events of the Kobuleti Opinion, however, we try to be flexible about these and other deadlines. Let this tolerance buffer be an entire month in 2026. On the participants' side please try to sign up for the resident stage of our tournament by the first days of June to avoid an overall delay of matches.

The optional stage of our tournament for visitors is accommodating by design with no fixed sign-up deadlines, but in order to find your name in our rankings at the end of the tournament, you need to complete the matches against all the players in your international summer league by the end-of-tournament deadline.

All matches on the indoor tennis court will be scheduled by the organizer of the tournament, based on input from the opponents on the one hand (please provide plenty of alternatives whenever possible, thanks) and the interests of the court operator on the other. Requests for play on the indoor court (dates and periods of clock time on them suitable for play) can be submitted by a personal message to him in Telegram or using the tournament contact email, and before getting a confirmation in reply in the communication channel chosen please stay accessible for potential adjustments. The cost of any requests for canceling that can't be fulfilled will be covered by the player willing to cancel. The Tennis Contacts service fee will be omitted in such cases, only the rental fee to the court administrator applies.

In any case, please try to never cancel later than 24 hours before the scheduled commercial court usage or after 8pm of the day before and submit your requests for indoor matches at least a couple days before the desired match along with payment for 1h of court rental, thanks (or more if you think the match could take longer than 2h and you want the court to be guaranteed to be available to complete the match in one go). It is very helpful to let the organizer know about unforeseen circumstances as soon as the canceling of a booking becomes a possibility rather than a reality as this usually allows to reschedule much more conveniently for all the parties involved.

The scheduling of outdoor matches is the responsibility of the respective opponents. Please be mindful of at least the restrictions highlighted in bold font in tournament regulations while doing so.

Motivation

A couple reasons for organizing the Kobuleti Opinion have been mentioned already – a more respectable soul health of our societies to drive the abusers of authority out of power (the latter including those using abusive legal coercion methods to make people in Kobuleti commit suicide by jabbing themselves to death just a few years ago, for example, to make it crystal clear what we are talking about here among the rest of the current global mess) and the ranking list for the HTPW community to accommodate more players at a suitable level of soul health and play in the activities of our community easily. Let's not forget about the initial idea, too, of this somewhat belated community tennis event – to celebrate the first anniversary of a public opportunity to play tennis in Kobuleti.

Competing for an adequate place in the ranking list provides an efficient way to get acquainted with players in our community whose level of play matches yours, and managing all of it on the Web makes finding partners for regular training sessions easy. As long as sufficient interest in the community is there, the organizer will help facilitate this event annually, but the balls and other equipment will have to be provided by the players themselves in addition to the respectable soul health or a positive gradient in this direction as has been thoroughly explained above already.

As an extra kick for our top-ranked participants to find the motivation to participate in our Opinion this year and in the future, a fellow organizer in Poti is going to find some opponents at a slightly higher level of play for a little half-day event in Poti toward the end of September to discipline the most successful fighter hedgehogs of the Kobuleti seaside promenade court community this year as a little recognition for the Kobuleti champions league.

Our soul health-focused take on recreational tennis tournaments during the current times of distortion, confusion, and destruction can be a motivation in turn for other communities trying to figure out what to do about the currently popular abuses of authority.

Eligibility

In order to make our tournament appealing to fellow recreational tennis players valuing a sound combination of competitive recreational tennis skills and respectable soul health, we can't afford participants with the character of a being who decided that the rules of tennis and those of the more general soul health, implicit in any healthy community of humans capable of operating at a level supportive of matches played without a chair umpire, don't apply to them in reality as it would set unacceptable communication style for our entire self-service oriented event. For more information, please see the corresponding entry in the Frequently Asked Questions section outside the scope of tournament regulations.

Regarding a suitable level of play, a basic command of tennis or the willingness to master this level of play within a couple months before participating is enough. In other words – and similarly to the general soul health of those struggling with it – as long as the gradient is positive, we can be tolerant and help. At the other end of the spectrum, NTRP levels beyond 4.5 are a bit too much for us currently. That having been said, the sheer willingness to play with a racket and a ball should by and large suffice for a player to be welcome here. It is always a privilege to play a stronger opponent after all.

As part of your eligibility, let's say, please submit your match score before leaving the court if possible as lingering results can become a major hindrance in scheduling matches, thanks. Likewise, it's not a small deal to play our Opinion matches on Tennis Contacts partner courts only (including just the paid airport court in Batumi so far in addition to the free seaside promenade court in Kobuleti; additional partner courts will be listed here should they become available: none yet) as the number of participants we can admit depends on the success of our cooperation with commercial tennis court managers that tends to be sensitive to booking volume.

The max number of players our tournament can accommodate depends on the availability of courts, so in 2026 we wouldn't go much beyond a match per day, i.e. 2-3 dozen participants (max 1.5 dozen participants at resident stage and perhaps not more than 2-5 concurrent participants not playing on the airport court at visitor stage, depending on the length of their stay) as we currently have only 1 court in Kobuleti that we can realistically book just once a day and the one we can easily book in Batumi has a relatively good fill rate already. May there be more public tennis courts in Kobuleti after our Opinion 2026 :)

One more unusual eligibility restriction applies. We start the draw with at least a dozen seeded players who we know are eager to participate. The level of play of any additional participants must make sense to the seeded ones for any changes in the initial draw to be introduced. Consequently, the eligibility of players whose level of play is within the above described helper restrictions is very likely but not guaranteed, which applies especially to players at NTRP levels way below 2.0 and not improving as well as those way above 4.0 this time and our top round-robin group getting a little bit overcrowded (so an additional group can't be formed) for our top players' time available for tennis this summer.

Our Opinion 2026 is focused on our character and other soul health, you know, and will continue to be so should there be any future events of this tournament. Which is to say that at the end of the day players who don't respect the Fair Play principle are not, of course, welcome to take part in any tennis tournaments played without a chair umpire nor any other community events where mutual trust is critical for a successful outcome, and our Hundred Tennis Player Wood communities' tournaments are no exception to this rule. For example, repeatedly disturbing the rhythm of play by excessive disputes and other ways of playing the fool on court are not part of Fair Play, in addition to the more traditional ways of "playing" tennis without the racket and the ball for an unfair advantage when the going is tough.

We are experienced enough to be willing to solve any potential problems with someone's soul health in our communities without a waste of time and not willing to offer excessive pointless opportunities for someone's destructive efforts, who is reckless enough to not fit in a friendly respectable community, to just sow harm on our motivation to organize and participate, be it the urge to cover up one's lousy soul health instead of being constructive and trying to improve one's character or whatever else might happen to be ailing a slow-wit asking for troubleshooting – simple as that. The organizing committee, of course, will try to do their best to keep such problems out of our communities early on, but sometimes an unforeseen bug can creep in and then some community support might be needed to fix it together in the most pleasant way possible for everybody, thanks.

Participation fee and payment methods

The participation fee at the resident stage of the tournament in the low season is 15 lari or 5 euro, depending on the payment method, added to which is the court repair fee, so at resident stage the total participation fee is 35 lari or 11 euro, respectively. No other fees are required, except if willing to play some matches in commercial settings, because the usual hospitality of the Georgian people is well worth the nearly free offer to participate.

The participation fee at visitor stage in the high season is a zero higher, i.e. 50 euro or 150 lari (with no court repair fee added, of course). For tourists from countries where 50 EUR is too much for a tennis tournament participation fee let the participation fee be 25 EUR. Thanks a lot for your help making this event possible this year!

The payment methods available are 35 lari in cash on court, 35 lari transfer to Bank of Georgia, and 11 euro transfer using Stripe at resident stage. The latter can be more if you want to donate to support soul health projects like the Kobuleti Opinion on the free public tennis court of a beautiful Black Sea resort, Tennis Contacts in a few countries already, Keeping You Honest on Substack, or Stop Maltech at Hostinger. The last 2 payment methods can be used for paying the Tennis Contacts commercial branch service fee when playing in commercial settings, too. At visitor stage the same payment channels can be used.

Everyone is welcome to donate anytime to support soul health projects like the Kobuleti Opinion out of sheer appreciation, i.e. without any implications for how or what these projects should be dealing with. Feedback, including negative feedback, is very important to us, but equally important is the complete decoupling of the development logic of such events and projects from any potentially abusive financial support from outside their respective communities.

Playing matches in commercial settings

In 2026 the so-called airport court costs 55 lari/h and our discount is 5 lari/h. In commercial settings the Tennis Contacts commercial branch fee applies, which is 20% of the court fee payed by the opponents to the organizer of the tournament using one of the payment methods described above, so in 2026 it is 11 lari/h (5 lari/h from each singles opponent).

There is no fixed limit for the discount that can be asked from commercial tennis court owners, but life in commercial settings shows that these discounts need to be earned by the booking volume at times of interest for the court owners as well as otherwise nice and smooth cooperation. Let's try to double our discount for our next event here!

Experience since 2011 of the organizer of the tournament in Estonia so far shows that discounts from 10-50% are realistic over time, depending on the location and fill rate of the tennis courts being booked. The airport court is booked for tournament matches by the organizer of the tournament only. It can be difficult to find for tourists visiting Batumi for the first time, so here are the instructions for those of you not quite sure of how to get there:

The closest you can get to the airport court by public transportation is less than half a km from the southern corner of Batumi Airport down the street (and to the left for the last hundred m or so) that starts at that corner where you can get by minibus #20 which leaves from the square in Batumi where the minibuses to Tbilisi leave from, about 200m from the cable car station down the Chavchavadze street. As the cable car station is also the final stop for the minibuses coming from Kobuleti, minibus #20 provides a convenient way of getting to the airport court for 1 lari every 12 minutes from 7.30am to 9.30pm in the 2026 season.

Thanks a lot to everyone who decides to support the organizer's work this way!

The challenge of a fee on municipal premises

Combining public and commercial courts when organizing a tennis tournament can easily get tricky because of the problems that come with a fee in public space due to people looking for silly fun in the wrong place that can easily get intolerable for participants playing the role of a tournament organizer as well as an opponent having to deal with, say, the creativity of the Hedgehog sapiens up to a non-zero threshold of a reasonable participation fee in reality to filter out excessive free headache for everybody, including the hedgehogs not very interested in tennis or the concept of Fair Play, to be honest.

Provoking scenes like the one above for silly fun is not welcome at our Opinion, thanks! The organizing committee doesn't know of a better working solution in reality than a minimal participation fee to keep the reckless or abusive intent behind provoking such intolerable conversational overhead out of our tournament or at least within bearable confines, so if you know of any then please email your advice to us for consideration. But what does this have to do with challenges on municipal premises? Turns out that making money on a municipal tennis court in Kobuleti among many other regions is forbidden by law. The law, in turn, must reflect the will of the local people who might be willing to make exceptions, depending on how well the tournament being organized in our case meets their expectations. And these expectations can vary greatly between those of the people interested in participating in the tournament and those willing to use the court for regular practices only.

Therefore we can easily end up with ideal conditions for a divide-and-conquer just waiting to be triggered by people in poor soul health on the regular practice supporter camp whenever someone shows up on court without sufficient respect for the opportunities of local people to play on THEIR court being used for OUR tournament. To sum up the details of the situation in Kobuleti and how we can deal with it, for example, there have been clashes between local people and visitors playing half a day in a row already, so the mood of local people is not too favorable for a tournament to be held currently, but we can make a gesture that we are reading the situation with respect supportive of the local people's opportunities to play, and see what happens.

Such an opportunity for a friendly gesture and a practical solution to the problem situation created by a lack of considerateness of a third party can be found in the condition of the court we are using for our tennis activities, be it on the regular practice supporter camp or the tournament match player camp of the local tennis enthusiasts. Being close to the sea and open for acts of vandalism, the court already needs to be resurfaced, its gate needs repair, the poorly designed fence needs a fix for balls not to escape and fall prey to the numerous dog spectators around, very eager not to give the ball back, and so forth. The Kobuleti Central Park administration will provide the lighting of the court, but pretty much all the rest needs to be provided by the players themselves, which a couple upset local people on the regular practice supporter camp who already keep jumping at those providing instruction to tournament participants well within the limits accepted by the community haven't paid attention to so far. Let's not be petty on our side but show some friendly constructive initiative by donating 20 lari from each tournament participant to finance the three most urgent court fixes listed as well as do the repair, thereby expressing our willingness in reality to contribute to the welfare of the court we are using for our tournament matches, which those not participating can also benefit from, and improving the overall soul health on court in the process as a role model for the pushers of the above mentioned cowboy conflict solving/introducing initiative to catch up with.

Due to the delicate situation just desribed we should pay additional attention to respecting the usual 10-minute warm-up time before matches when playing on the Kobuleti public court. Those of us who want to warm up longer than that can do so courtside earlier. Also, we can increase our scheduling certainty considerably by using a deciding point at deuce. And with the help of the local people on the tournament match camp we can make a fairly logical assumption that those lazy enough to book the court before coming to play are sleeping long enough in the morning to let us complete our matches until noon every day. With a deciding point in each game, that will probably guarantee any match started at 9am or earlier to be completed in one go. And other tournament participants are encouraged to provide help with getting each other's matches played without interruption by booking the court until noon for regular practice sessions, thus providing a buffer for a deciding set to be played whenever needed. After noon our tournament matches can't last longer than one set (no more than 1.5 hours, that is) if anyone unwilling to use the booking system is waiting courtside for the court to become available.

In case a gang of local people, who haven't quite understood the benefits of our tournament for the local people and potentially for their entire country, shows up on court after noon to evict you in the middle of a match that has lasted for less than 2 hours, you can call a local assistant referee Mamuka who would like to talk to these local people about the advantages of our tournament for local people and ask them to upgrade their software as far as the local guys willing to participate in our tournament are concerned. Let's support this substantial challenge to avoid any further clashes by not booking the Kobuleti public court for tournament matches more than once a day, except when booking after 8pm on the day before the match, thanks. Also importantly, let's play in the morning, preferably, and book the court for the entire match. Or book it for max 1.5h (just one set) if playing after noon. To sum it up, in case you can't make it in the morning, be prepared to have your match interrupted by those sitting courtside in 2 hours (or right after the set if playing after noon), or play on the indoor tennis court near Batumi Airport instead, thanks.

On the positive side and to the absolutely due credit of the local slow-wits, however, it can't be left without mention that the opinion of the Georgian local guys is an excellent reminder for the local guys of certain other satellite regions of the former Soviet empire that abusing power positions even passively by letting steal from each other or just sell everything for shallow profit as a society, which has increasingly become a fashion and a telling consequence of the predominant prostitute mentality governing the slaves of the "new" alternate empire pretending to be different from the previous one, is not a wise choice for a nation determined to stay independent and free. In other words, the cultural evolution and depth of a nation is not a small deal.

The system

At the Kobuleti Opinion 2026 the ITF rules of tennis 2026 apply, combined with the procedures for matches played without a chair umpire by Tennis Australia. As the Kobuleti Opinion tournament events are considered part of tennis instruction, all tournament info will be available at the Tennis Contacts Kobuleti educational website.

All matches will be played in regular best-of-3 sets, meaning that in order to win a match, one needs to win 2 sets, each set ending in a deciding tie-break whenever the score is 6-6. The tiebreakers are played to 7 points with a minimum point difference of 2 points. Unlike the tie-breaks and due to the Kobuleti public court being overcrowded, we use a deciding point at 40-40 in all matches, preferably, including the ones played outside Kobuleti.

The overall architecture of the tournament is optimized for getting all participants sorted in an adequate ranking list by the end of the season in a reasonable number of matches per participant. Which is to say that we start with round-robin groups of 4, but depending on feedback from participants we can increase the number of players in round-robin groups to 6 or even a larger even number, depending on how many courts we can book easily and how much time for tennis we have at our disposal. If just one of the players doesn't find the increase of their group size comfortable enough, this increase gets vetoed, except for the minimal increase of the initial size of some groups to accommodate as many of those willing to participate before the tournament commences as possible within the initial group size + 1 restriction for the lateral round-robin groups and one more for the middle ones.

Play during our ranking tournament is conducted in 2 stages with an optional 3rd stage. At the 1st stage, all players seeded in round-robin groups and those who we were able to add suitably for all the seeded players will play against every player in their group. At the 2nd stage the top half on each group having an adjacent group at a higher level of play will be merged into a summer league together with the lower half of the higher-level group. Second-stage matches can be played against anyone in the adjacent groups in order to accelerate the scheduling of tournament matches or just for playing more matches and interesting opponents for fun to further hone one's tennis skills as long as both opponents find it motivating enough, so the results of some of these extra matches can remain unofficial. The groups we play in at the 1st and 2nd stages are called round-robin groups and summer leagues, respectively.

In addition to the 2 stages of the main part of the tournament, an optional 3rd stage is there for participants willing to play tourists visiting Kobuleti in the high season. Let's call the 3rd stage groups the extended or international summer leagues of the Kobuleti Opinion. The international summer leagues are for resident players, too, whose level of play didn't fit in the earlier draw. Hence, each visitor or similar willing to participate gets to play everyone in the summer league that best matches their level of play. Similarly to determining the level of play of a new local participant before the tournament commences, to determine the appropriate international summer league for a visitor, a test set against tournament organizers or other players at a known level of play will be used, and to qualify in the selected international summer league, at least one set against one of the lowest ranked players in this group must be won. Visitors, too, are welcome to play opponents in all our international summer leagues if they like, but only match results against the resident players in their international summer league, or substitutes in the higher adjacent resident summer league (as close to their international summer league as possible) if not everyone from the main part of the tournament in their international summer league is participating, will determine their place in the final ranking list. Visitors ranked equally as a result will either share a ranking group or play each other if everyone sharing this cluster is available to play. Visitors available for play for the entire low season can participate in the same way as the local players.

The calculation of one's ranking in any group is based on the number of wins, the number of sets won, and the number of games won in one's round-robin group, summer league, international summer league, or visitor shared ranking breaker group, in that order. In the extremely rare case of a tie after applying these 3 tests, the order of the parties involved in the final ranking list will be drawn based on the earliest of them to submit their last result during the tournament as a thank-you for a contribution to speed up the scheduling of matches. Incomplete matches will be accounted for at visitor stage only with weight 0.5 for winning the first set if the second set was not completed.

To keep it simple, we try to avoid an odd number of players in the middle groups. If it's not possible then half of the size of the smallest even-numbered middle group at round-robin stage equals the number of players added from the higher and lower adjacent round-robin group to form a summer league, respectively.

System usage

In order to use Tennis Contacts online to submit match results, you need a Telegram username. If you are a Telegram user without a username then please create one.

Match scores may be submitted by one or both players. Please use the I/O tab of this widget to do so. If both players submit the score and these scores differ with neither of them or both having been confirmed by the opponent then the one entered first will be declared to be the official result with an indicator attached that a cron job was needed to determine the result a week after the first entry of the score or when the tournament ends. If only one opponent enters the score then the cron job will confirm the result similarly, but without anything attached. Please enter the score on the same day, preferably immediately after the match ends to avoid getting into trouble remembering the correct score.

Sometimes system down time can become a reality, so whenever the Tourna-O-Matic widget can't be used for entering a score, please use our ranking tournament Telegram group to let the organizers and other participants know about the result until the system can be used again to enter the score normally. The Web interface of the tournament runs on the Hostinger shared hosting service this time, so whenever you find your IP blocked by the overly strict shared hosting firewall sometimes (in other words, you can't reach the kobuleti.tenniscontacts.net site on your device), please simply email your IP to Tennis Contacts Support or you can click on Ask AI in the top navigation bar of the Hostinger website to submit a request along the lines of "Hello Kodee! My current IP address is *.*.*.*, its Confidence of Abuse score at AbuseIPDB is *%, and I am apparently blocked from accessing the site kobuleti.tenniscontacts.net at Hostinger. Please unlist my IP from the Hostinger firewall as I am actually not being abusive, thanks!" after replacing all the 5 asterisks with accurate numeric values to get your blocked IP unlisted if your AbuseIPDB score is 0–15%.

When submitting the score of a match fully or partly played on a commercial court, you need to specify the duration of court usage (or the part of it ending up in commercial settings if the match was partly played on a public court) which has to match the ACTUAL time spent on court that corresponds to the amount paid to the court administrator, not the initial booking length if the match turned out to be longer than initially planned. The shortening of match length in terms of the amount due to the administrator is not an option during our first Opinion, so if your match ends sooner than predicted, please use up the time left for regular play. The plan for the future though is to get permission during the unpopular parts of the day to be able to shorten match bookings on the go if the match ends sooner than the booking and the fill rate during that part of the day happens to be favorable of it. All our matches are intended to be completed in one go whenever possible. And according to the overall spirituality of our Opinion, each participant is expected to try to complete all matches and avoid any walkovers. If the latter happens then their weight will be half of that of a normal win. If matches can't be completed due to injury then the organizer will try to find a substitute. If this doesn't work out then the results of the matches against the withdrawing participant stand; otherwise, all matches against the withdrawer will be replayed against the substitute.

If you haven't used the Tennis Contacts system for Hundred Tennis Player Wood communities before, you need to transfer the following information from Telegram to Tennis Contacts: 1) your Telegram username; 2) your first name in full; and 3) at least the first letter of your surname. Your name will normally be displayed in Tennis Contacts in the format FirstName L.sha, where L is the first letter of your surname and sha is the first 3 characters of the SHA-256 hash of your Telegram username, but for specific actions like letting the system generate a diploma you have the option of using your full name if you have provided it in the system. You are not required to provide any more information about yourself in Tennis Contacts than the minimalist details listed above, mainly for the presentation purposes of all the matches that have been played in the system.

The sign-up procedure

This is how you sign up for our ranking tournament:

• Read these regulations in full to find out whether you qualify already or need to make some rewarding adjustments in your mindset before you do. In an effort to be mindful of your time spent reading this, except for the couple videos presented in the practical spiritual overview of the importance of competition in recreational tennis you don't need to follow any links to decide with good enough preliminary accuracy whether our tournament is for you or you can quit reading right here.
• Show up on court or join our Telegram group for booking the Kobuleti seaside promenade tennis court to request an invitation from the (main) organizer to join our ranking tournament Telegram group.
• Join our singles ranking tournament Telegram group. If you don't have a Telegram username yet then please create one in the Telegram app (under Settings choose Edit). Please don't change it if possible to help with keeping our Tennis Contacts usernames unique (less headache for new users, thanks). That's the most important part of the sign-up procedure as those invited to this Telegram group by the organizer are seeded in the initial draw (guaranteed participation in our ranking tournament, that is) as well as granted the privilege of doing so, if successfully completing this year's event, in the next events of our ranking tournament should it remain supported by the local people willing to participate after having tried it out.
• After you have joined our Telegram group with a username that the organizer can link to Tennis Contacts, you can log in at kobuleti.tenniscontacts.net#tourna-o-matic to get to the sign-up form (under the Invitation tab). Upon first login you'll have to copy some personal data from Telegram to the Tennis Contacts system for the management and presentation of the results of our tournaments. Your Telegram username, your first name and the first letter of your surname are mandatory; the rest is optional. You can also provide your contact information if interested in being accessible after the tournament to players in your summer league and round-robin group only, to anyone participating in our tournament, or to anyone surfing the Web (not recommended, but available as an option), including new players visiting the Kobuleti seaside promenade tennis court and looking for opponents at a suitable level of play, according to your preferences. These preferences can be changed later, of course, including the option to hide everything from everyone, except for the minimal mandatory personal information for presenting tournament results legibly.
• Make the payment. You can pay in cash on court when requesting an invitation from the organizer, for example, to speed up the sign-up procedure. In fact, you are encouraged to pay in cash, which is yet another useful security feature to keep our valuable communities and societies functioning, to put it short. Just in case, a couple digital money transfer options have been provided, too.
• Choose the payment method in the sign-up form accordingly and hit the "Sign me up!" button.
• Verify after a reasonable reaction time on the organizer's side that your name has been moved from the "Pending participants" list below the sign-up form to the "Participants" list under the "I/O" tab to complete the sign-up procedure. You have the opportunity to speed it up, if needed, by notifying the organizer by email.

Our ranking tournament Telegram group is for participants only and won't be revealed here.

Ranking list

The result of our ranking tournament is a ranking list. This list is the basis for determining round-robin groups the next time a ranking tournament is held should the interest of the participants still be there.

If someone is injured or feels they are playing well below their last year's level of play then their ranking can be decreased upon request, but an increase can be earned by participating in our ranking tournament only. Likewise, when assessing the level of new players, the organizer is inclined to give them a slightly lower ranking to start with.

Group borders can be drawn any way, but the objective is as even a level of play as possible within each group as well as a reasonable number of matches per participant. The latter is determined by the organizer by posting a draft initial draw to our ranking tournament Telegram group before registration deadline to let all the potential participants veto a too small or large group size. A reasonable effort is made to try to not leave anyone in the draft initial draw out of the round-robin groups due to inconvenient group size, but if this happens then they can participate in the optional stage and still get a place in our ranking list.

System administration

The tournament is led by a head referee who is guided by tournament regulations and whose decision is final. An assistant referee is there to help with disagreements, but ideally the role of both referees is zero. The organizing committee consists of the head referee and (main) organizer Andres and the assistant referee and assistant organizer Mamuka.

The main communication channel of the Kobuleti Opinion 2026 is our ranking tournament Telegram group where all the participants and the organizing committee of the tournament can be contacted.

Our take on awards

No tangible prizes are intended for the top-ranked players at the end of our tournament, but a helpful ranking list for finding opponents at a suitable level of play and a valuable opportunity to brush up one's tennis skills by playing against a variety of opponents at a suitably challenging level of play should satisfy those for whom events like this are organized in the first place. As an additional motivation for our top-ranked players to participate next time, we'll look into opportunities available for coming up with a few prize matches at a challenging level of play toward the end of the season.

To sum it up, we keep our focus on the importance of the invisible right to the end of our singles rankings Opinion.

Last but not least

Your participation in the activities of a tennis-loving community like the Kobuleti Opinion 2026 draw provides a little but important bit of soul health insurance for your society as in competitive play in a recreational tennis community chosen with integrity, your soul health can only get better. Our societies need leadership at this level of soul health to be soul health-protective as they should, so may there be many more communities like ours around, do so early, and at the end of the day, may a tennis ball in play keep the war-loving pedophile away. And as you've probably figured it out by now, for this proverb upgrade to play out on time, you need to participate early.

See you early, fighter hedgehog, and good luck with your homework challenge after a soul health improving summer of highly competitive tennis battles!

The Kobuleti Opinion 2026 tournament organizing committee

Mamuka (+995 599 02 89 19: in Georgian, Russian, or English, please)

Andres (info@tennisekontakt.ee: in Estonian, English, or Russian, please)

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why not Kobuleti Open?

Andres: To be honest, tennis can't be played when one or more opponents don't respect the rules of tennis and there is no chair umpire around, unlike in the tournaments on the pro tour. Likewise, when one or more participants don't have respect for the overall soul health of the tournament, the organizers alone can't make the event appealing to valuable opponents capable of improving our spiritual stamina by competing against us in a way that makes sense in the sport of tennis. For anyone committed to the Fair Play principle and willing to cooperate in keeping our tournament in good soul health, however, the "Opinion" part of the name of our tournament becomes a synonym for "Open" automagically.

Let's illustrate this point with the help of the work of a few fellow authors on Substack whom I cooperate with to find out how to resist the abuse of authority and drive those practicing it out of power most efficiently after I became aware of the problem as the administration of the Tallinn Tech tennis court was brutally hijacked from me in 2019 along with a mysterious attack on my lungs that left my health in a near-fatal state for years, starting right before the global brutal vaccination abuse campaign, apparently designed to cover up such crimes more easily, I guess, as our university was hit by an entire wave of canceling on the basis of disobedience to woke ideology wrapped up in all sorts of dumbing-down narratives, followed by silencing efforts similar to bombing an enemy to the Stone Age for political "fun". My counter-canceling idea is that once we have filtered out and blocked the shallow or outright abusive kind of intent at cultural level, which some members of our healthy leadership-capable elite have clearly enough pointed out as the way to keep our societies out of trouble, someone's personal rot of character or that of an entire cabal of brothers-in-crime can't result in the abuse of our societies and the accompanying inevitability of collapse anymore, known as the parasitic elite overpopulation. The question is, can we filter such abuse out of our societies?

With the help of establishing sound principles of communication, I believe that we can. Also importantly and referring to the processes usually accompanying the eviction of such rot, we'd better make sure early on that in a logical sequence of events our tennis courts among other valuable ground for making good use of our lives aren't turned into battlegrounds for very non-tennis purposes by cabals of, say, war-loving pedophiles. Tennis is a healthy kind of elite sport by design, meaning that it encourages both professional and the sometimes more broad-minded recreational players to take responsibility for acting with integrity rather than think about the prestige that comes with fulfilling these responsibilities properly, let alone brag about it like a zero-wit power addict, so we should make more use of what this sport has to offer to those capable of healthy leadership in our obvious current global leadership crisis in the extreme capitalist camp oiling their War Machine in increasingly fancy ways.

There is on more point that needs to be made here as far as the non-negligible danger of our tennis courts being turned into real battlegrounds in a logical sequence of events these days is concerned, although this isn't directly my reply to your question. Well, it may sound way too far-fetched normally, but on the positive side against the backdrop of all the narcissistic war-loving pedophiles lacking basic competence and driving our international politics right into absolutely pointless wars doomed to be lost currently, they have inadvertently fetched it close to breaking through to our critical masses of slow-wits by now how important in our life the art of losing actually is. I feel that any respectable tennis tournament should currently capitalize on this miscalculation of the war-loving cabal and explicitly focus on contributing to the art of losing.

Referring to your test set against Georgy for a place in our top round-robin group, the minors among the participants of our tournament are our future, so we should take the time to explain why it is so important to learn to lose in a certain manner. Here is a poignant entry in my own Substack note flow to provide some guidelines for your convenience along with a six-pack of philosophies known as the secrets of Spanish tennis to educate our up-and-coming healthy leadership-capable elite to become respectable players, no matter what the outcome of one match or another against a solid opponent. We don't want any idiots in power positions, alright, resulting in our tennis battlegrounds being turned into real battlegrounds, so we stick to a racket and a ball by teaching the basics of life early at our tennis tournaments.

As for the overall soul health of our tournament for practical purposes, referring to wars and other explosive stuff on court during the current turbulent times isn't forbidden, but it should be done EXPLICITLY within the confines of one's PERSONAL OPINION and not denigrating anybody, directly or indirectly, for having a different one, a specific nationality, or in other ways making a participant in respectable soul health and contributing to the event with their presence feel uncomfortable participating. There are some useful takes on Substack again that I am aware of about why decoupling our opinions from respect is necessary when going down the slippery slope of discussing or referring to something on court that some nationalities represented at our tournament, on one side of a major conflict or another, might be sensitive to. In our context this decoupling means publicly undistorted self-worth and wholesomeness of the identity of each of us participating in the first place (watch from 11.25-15.6 to skip some introductory, well, near-BS in my opinion). We really need to zoom in on what's important here to get such problems solved before they get in the way of everybody.

It isn't just about the curent wars, but pooping into each other's soul in general, more often than not on the initiative of carefully hidden third parties looking for ways to divide and conquer everybody for increasingly global and obvious power grabs, so anyone participating in our tournament might find such an opinion-aided guideline for the avoidance of reckless attempts to distort reality reasonable at a, say, personal eureka moment. Nowadays our situational awareness of such phantom issues seems to have become important just like it is necessary to ALWAYS call the ball "in" for the benefit of your opponent whenever you aren't COMPLETELY sure that it was out when playing without a chair umpire and making decisions on your side of the court, to avoid heated arguments which we as reasonable beings should be able to avoid.

In summary, we can disagree on a lot that doesn't have anything to do with our ranking tournament, but focusing on NOT disrespecting each other as a fellow human being and a tennis partner for that matter can – miraculously indeed – keep our communication at a respectable level of soul health for our species despite all the complicated situations off court for many of us at the moment. That's why we need this tournament and other reminders that our opinions are like assholes – everybody's got one. And we shouldn't generalize them recklessly.

At the end of the day let's focus on our personal soul health as a participant of a respectable tournament, both in the situations where the rules of tennis apply and where they don't, to make the Kobuleti Opinion as open as possible for those worth it for pretty straightforward practical reasons for all of us and well beyond our common hobby. Thanks a lot everyone for your cooperation in keeping the overall soul health of our tournament out of danger zone and in the process growing your soul health to the level of a healthy leadership-capable elite, which anyone willing can be part of! And to contrast the healthy leadership-incapable arrogance elite, it has become obvious by now that we badly need to show the way...

As is often the case during turbulent times like our current so-called Open Era in world tennis (increasingly fit for quotation marks around "Open", in my opinion, especially in 2022, including some Grand Slam tournaments), our greatest impediment is trying to get it right (if interested, scroll to Thanksgiving 2025 in my note flow on Substack to find out why and how, equally covered for the stupid peasants and the stupid aristocrats alike in an effort to explicitly avoid any divide-and-conquer of slow-wits on a social basis), so the tournament organizer's special thanks for identifying the major component obstacles, as far as the smooth functioning of our tournament is concerned, and figuring everything out properly go to an established American HS resister and valuable practical feedback provider Dr. McCullough, an established fellow European practical philosophical insight provider Dr. Desmet, an oversize six-pack of fellow American, say, brilliant Substack minds Tessa, Lily, Sasha, Ellie, John, Sayer, and Scott, and an up-and-coming perseverance practical philosophical insight provider, introducing herself as Flower, for a multitude of useful practical takes, including what I consider a poignant name for our tournament in the first place and the rest of the vocabulary and philosophies needed to get the concepts and other foundations of this thought-provoking soul health-oriented event right. Which is to say in a rather symbolic way that these top ten notable contributors so far, probably (there have been more contributors, but we can admit only a limited number of participants this year, sorry), are welcome to participate in the visitor stage of our Opinion 2026 for free, get their well-earned free tennis lessons to prepare for competitive play in Kobuleti (depending on the availability of a court that is rather crowded already), and probably we can find some tennis equipment for our invited guests coming without, too. It's about a sound mind in a healthy body after all, so in summer let's work with the latter in the first place.

Kobuleti is a sea resort with a magnetic sand beach stimulating blood circulation among other health benefits, plenty of attractions for children during the season, and the cultural surroundings of the country of a people offering plenty of learning experience opportunities for non-arrogant tourist families from American, Estonian, and other extreme capitalist hollowed-out societies currently to get some valuable ideas of how to increase their percentage in a totalitarian world driven by war-loving pedophiles with a shallow cultural background. So, why not meet in Kobuleti in an open community of soul health quality that leaves room for a valuable variety of opinions without the need to make it closed, and keep a tennis ball in play in the upcoming season to get in good shape for a successful percentage play take back home on our common off-court matches in driving the abusers of authority out of power?

Last but not least, I think we should be most grateful to the soul health elite of the local people of Kobuleti for having the wisdom of making our Opinion possible.

2. Why is the returner allowed to pick the service box at deciding points at deuce?

Andres: Because the deciding point is the last point of the game, so at this crucial moment picking the service box might help the returner get on more even terms with the player serving, which in tennis is generally considered an advantage.