The ITF Junior Tennis, a calendar event for Kolkata will be held from 15th to 20th January 2024, once again at the Bengal Tennis Association courts. This year would be the 31st year of the championship and since the past few years, we have been entrusted by the federation (ITF) to host a Grade 2 tournament. The qualifying rounds will be played on the 13th & 14th January 2024.
After organising the ITF Junior Circuit in Kolkata for the past thirty years and pioneering in getting the same to India, we have been entrusted once again to hold this prestigious World Ranking championship this year. The professional approach and personalized attention given to each individual participating player has earned the organizing team the distinction of hosting this Grade 2 category tournament. It has also had the distinction of being voted the Best Organized Tournament in 2002 by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
In the present age of competitiveness it is more and more important for our juniors to participate in International meets. Only a privileged few nowadays can take part in the International (I.T.F.) events because of the huge costs involved in foreign travel. Not only do they lose out in gaining direct entries, in most cases they have to play qualifying rounds.
The official accommodations are Hotel Pearl International, Hotel Soujorn and Casa Broadway.
The tournament will follow the guidelines laid down by the “International Tennis Federation”.
Only Boys and Girls born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2011 may participate. Players cannot participate unless they have reached their 13th birthday before the start of the Main Draw.
POINTS TABLE (As of 1st Jan 2024)
SINGLES DOUBLES (Each player)
Winner 200 150
Runners – up 140 105
Semi Finalist 100 75
Quarter Finalist 60 45
Loser in last 16 36 27
Loser in last 32 18
The Following events shall be held:-
DRAW DRAW
Boys Singles 32 Girls Singles 32
Boys Doubles 16 Girls Doubles 16
All matches will be of 3 Tie-Break Sets.
The Tournament would be played on the six synthetic courts as in the Australian Open at the Bengal Tennis Association Complex, Salt Lake, Kolkata.
Normal playing hours would be from 09.30 am to 6 pm. Before and after the match playing hours, courts are provided to players for practice.
Free board and lodge would be provided to all main draw players.
Entries for the Championship have been received from nineteen foreign countries viz. Germany, Kazakhstan, Korea, Japan, United States of America, Australia, Thailand, Serbia, Czech Republic, Israel, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, Denmark, Ukraine, Vietnam, Russia, Croatia, Indonesia apart from host country India.
Notable Main Draw entries received are as below:
BOYS
| POS | PLAYER | NATIONALITY | RANKING |
| 1 | Nikita Bilozertsev | UKR | 190 |
| 2 | Vojtech Vales | CZE | 202 |
| 3 | Ognjen Milic | SRB | 209 |
| 4 | Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar | IND | 239 |
| 5 | Iliyas Maratuly | KAZ | 243 |
| 6 | Pham La Hoang Anh | VIE | 249 |
| 7 | Duje Markovina | CRO | 261 |
| 8 | Cahir Warik | IND | 275 |
| 9 | Se Hyuk Cho | KOR | 285 |
| 10 | Makar Krivoshchekov | RUS | 290 |
| 11 | Debasis Sahoo | IND | 294 |
| 12 | Jonas Kucera | CZE | 300 |
| 13 | Marat Salbiev | RUS | 338 |
| 14 | Michael Dylan Jimenez | SGP | 346 |
| 15 | Lovro Maricic | CRO | 348 |
| 16 | Hyeon Seok Seo | KOR | 352 |
| 17 | Egor Gorin | RUS | 359 |
| 18 | Jaden Dewandaka Tan | INA | 373 |
| 19 | Artem Lyapshin | GER | 374 |
| 20 | Ren Matsumura | JPN | 390 |
| 21 | Aarjun Pandit | IND | 401 |
| 22 |
GIRLS
| POS | PLAYER | NATIONALITY | RANKING |
| 1 | Lidia Podgorichani | THA | 107 |
| 2 | Maya Iyengar | USA | 129 |
| 3 | Christasha McNeil | USA | 138 |
| 4 | Daria Shadchneva | RUS | 145 |
| 5 | Anya Murthy | USA | 160 |
| 6 | Kira Bataikina | RUS | 215 |
| 7 | Shihomi Li Xuan Leong | MAS | 237 |
| 8 | Sue Yan Tan | SGP | 253 |
| 9 | Maayan Laron | ISR | 259 |
| 10 | Yu-Chen Lin | TPE | 280 |
| 11 | Sara Borkop | DEN | 363 |
| 12 | Anna Pushkareva | RUS | 367 |
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