The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) will host the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World tennis Junior J30 - 2024, tournament from August 31st to September 7th 2024, the matches will be held at the Jain International Residential School courts.

The KSLTA – ITF Junior Tournament for boys and girls in the Under-18 category will feature 32 players in the singles main draw and 16 in the doubles category.

The qualifying events will be held on August 31st and 1st September with the tournament main draw starting on September 2^nd 2024.

Qualifying round begins

31^st Aug 2024: The Singles Qualifying Round 1 of both Boys and Girls Under-18 category saw spirited performances, with young tennis talents from across the globe vying for a spot in the main draw. The matches were fiercely contested, setting the tone for the exciting days ahead.

Results (Prefix denotes seeds)

Boys

1-Thirumurugan Viswanathan (Ind)  bt Fazal Ali Meer (Ind)  6-1 6-2 .

Hruthik Katakam (Ind)  bt Arhan Jain (USA)  6-0 6-0 .

Tarun Honnappa (Ind)  bt Levin Safoor Mydeen (Ind)  Walk Over

7- Yash Panchaxari (Ind)  bt Anurav Prakash (Ind)  6-7(5) 6-1 [10-6] .

2- Sumukh Marya (Ind)  bt Hridhay Vivekanandan (Ind)  6-1 6-3 .

Gurbaaz Narang (Ind)  bt Jasraj Singh Jagdev, (CAN), 6-1 6-0 .

Tejas Ravi (Ind)  bt Arjun Soori Puttegowda (Ind)  6-4 6-3 .

6- Neel Kelkar (Ind)  bt Lethaeesh S Kombila (Ind)  6-4 6-4 .

3- Anhad Singh Oberoi (Ind)  bt Pushkal Srivastava (Ind)  6-1 6-1 .

Akshath Jenish (Ind)  bt Rohan Karthik Vunnam (Ind)  6-3 6-4 .

Veer Madam (Ind)  bt Tanay Mukesh Sharma (Ind)  7-5 4-6 [10-8] .

5- Aryan Jolly (Ind)  bt Nithinbarath Ks (Ind)  6-3 6-4 .

4- Rohith Hari Balaji Gobinath (Ind)  bt Shreyanth Mahanthesha (Ind)  6-4 6-4 .

Sri Sai Satyaram Harivans Mygapula (Ind)  bt Abhivadya Misra (Ind)  6-2 6-2 .

Kristo Babu (Ind)  bt Arihant Kaul (Ind)  6-2 6-3 .

Uttam Karthik (Ind)  bt 8- Himanshu Benda (Ind)  6-3 7-5

 Girls

1- Saiyette Varadkar (Ind)  bt Disha Santosh Khandoji (Ind)  6-4 4-6 [10-4] .

Riya Gangamma Pudiyokkada (Ind)  bt Insiyah Mhowwala (Ind)  1-6 6-2 [10-4] .

Devanshee Prabhudesai (Ind)  bt Sree Sasthayini Velmanikandan (Ind)  3-6 6-2 [10-2].

Avyaktha Rayavarapu (USA)  bt 8- Saanvi Misra (Ind)  6-3 6-4 .

2- Riddhi Shinde (Ind)  bt Samhitha Koganti (Ind)  6-3 6-3 .

Vanya Srivastav (Ind)  bt Lavanya Tiwari (Ind)  3-6 6-2 [10-5] .

Kasturi V G (Ind)  bt Dhanashree Patil (Ind)  7-5 6-4 .

6- Siya Prasade (Ind)  bt Anwesha Dhar (Ind)  6-0 6-2 .

3-Madhavi Mishra (Ind) bt Indusha Nimmakayala (Ind) 6-7(3) 6-2 [10-5]

Joshitha Santhanakrishnan (Ind)  bt Pooja Nagaraj (Ind)  6-4 5-7 [10-8] .

Deepthi venkatesan (ind) bt Snigdha ruhil (ind) 6-2 3-6 [11-9] .

Deepshika vinayagamurthy (ind) bt 7- Harsha karthika oruganti (ind) 6-3 6-4 .

4- Aahan Aahan (Ind) bt Aditi Khanapuri (Usa)  6-2 6-2

Shruti Nanajkar (Ind)  bt Veena Sivaraman (Ind)  6-4 6-1 .

Avipsha Dehury (Ind)  bt Aadiya Ritesh Kumar (Ind)  6-2 6-2 .

Akansha Ghosh (Ind) bt 5- Tanishca Bhatnagar Tanishca (Ind) 6-1 6-0

The qualifying rounds continue through tomorrow, anticipation builds for the main draw matches set to begin on September 2^nd the tournament is expected to showcase some of the finest young tennis talents, with the doubles main draw kicking off on September 3^rd.

The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA), which has been awarded the hosting rights of ITF J 30 (Under-18) tournament for the second time, features 32 players in the singles main draw and 16 in the doubles category.

Four Karnataka players – Srikar Dhoni and Diganth M, (Boys), Aahida Singh and Disha Kumar (Girls) -- have been given wild card entries to the main draw.

The J30 event on the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors offers 30 rankings points to the winners in both categories while the runner-up gets 18.