The deadlines
- Entry deadline: the last moment to enter your child for the tournament.
- Withdrawal deadline: the last moment to withdraw a child you've entered.
- Sign-in with the referee: the time, usually the day before the draw starts, when you confirm with the referee that your child will play. A draw with a qualifying can have two: one before the qualifying and one before the main draw.
When entry and withdrawal close at the same moment, the app shows them as one deadline: “Entry and withdrawal deadline”.
Federation tournaments
By the federation's regulations (Наредба 2026, sections 5.1, 5.2, 7.1 and 7.2), the deadlines are in Bulgaria time and count from the tournament's first day (for national tournaments, the first day of the qualifying):
- National, National championship: entries close 10 days before, at 12:00; withdrawals close 5 days before, at 12:00; sign-in with the referee is from 12:00 to 13:00 the day before the qualifying and the day before the main draw.
- Masters, Kinder+: entries close 10 days before, at 12:00; withdrawals close 5 days before, at 12:00; sign-in with the referee is from 12:00 to 13:00 the day before.
- Regional, Regional championship: entries and withdrawals close the day before, at 12:00; sign-in with the referee is from 12:00 to 13:00 the day before.
- Team: the clubs enter the teams, so the app shows only the sign-ins.
Tennis Europe tournaments
By Tennis Europe's rules (its Junior Tour Regulations 2026), the entry and withdrawal deadlines are in GMT, and the sign-in is in the venue's local time:
- Entries close at 14:00 GMT on the Tuesday 4 weeks before the tournament's week.
- Withdrawals close at 14:00 GMT on the Tuesday 2 weeks before the tournament's week.
- Sign-in with the referee closes at 18:00 local time the day before the draw starts; online sign-in, with a Tennis Europe account, opens 24 hours earlier, or you can phone the tournament's supervisor.
The app shows every deadline in Bulgaria time and, where the venue's clock is different, its local time beside it.
By nomination only: Tennis Europe picks the players. If your child is picked, choose “We've entered” to get the sign-in reminders.
When a deadline is an estimate
When a tournament's page doesn't give its deadlines yet, the app works them out from the rules above and marks them “estimate”. Once the page publishes them, the app takes those at its next check of the official calendar.
An estimate can differ from the real deadline: check the tournament's page.
Entries closed
Once a published entry deadline has passed and you haven't marked your child as entered, the app shows “Entries closed” in red in place of the draw's deadlines, and sends no more reminders about it. If you did enter, choose “We've entered”: the withdrawal and sign-in deadlines stay. An estimate never closes entries: the app waits for the published deadline.
Where you enter
bgtennis.chat doesn't enter your child. Entries and withdrawals happen on the federation's portal, bgtennis-online.bg, or on Tennis Europe's tournament site, te.tournamentsoftware.com. Every tournament in the app links to its official page, which always has the final word.
With Pro, the app shows each deadline's date and time and reminds you before it. On the free plan it points you to the tournament's page for them.