Achievements in Tennis

BACK-TO-BACK INTERNATIONAL TENNIS FEDERATION JUNIORS' TENNIS TOURNAMENTS

Dinara de Silva of Grade 11 won back to back Singles titles at the International Tennis Federation Juniors (u18) Tennis Tournaments held in Islamabad Pakistan in November 2024. This is Dinara’s 3rd J30 category singles win for the year having previously won a similar tournament in Colombo in May 2024.

 

With these wins 16 year old Dinara will achieve a career high raking international ranking only achieved by a few Sri Lankan junior players in the past.

During the year Dinara, represented the Sri Lanka Women’s team at the Billie Jean King Cup Asia Oceania Group 2 play offs held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. She also represented Sri Lanka at the Junior Billy Jean King Cup (Under 16) competition enabling Sri Lanka to win the Asia Oceania Prequalifying event held in Sri Lanka. She maintained her unbeaten Singles record for Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and thereby steering the Sri Lanka team into the Asia Oceania final qualifying round as the 1st placed qualifier for the 3rd consecutive year.

Dinara continued her dominance of the Local Circuit during the year remaining unbeaten and winning the Women’s Open National Title and the Under 18 Girls Singles Championship at the 109th Tennis Nationals, Thus securing her 3rd consecutive Junior National Singles title and 2nd consecutive Women’s National title.

ARJUN PERERA MEMORIAL CHALLENGE TROPHY

St. Bridget’s Convent under 16 team won the 

                             Division 3 championship 

at the Arjun Perera memorial challenge trophy tennis tournament

108th National Tennis Championship

14 year-old Dinara de Silva from St. Bridget’s Convent clinched the Women’s Open title at the recently concluded 108th National Tennis Championship. 

Dinara secured her 3rd title at the 108th National Tennis Championships by winning the Women’s Open category comfortably by two sets to nil in the final.

She also won the Girls U16 and U18 titles last week while securing the runners up position in the Women’s Doubles category.

DINARA DE SILVA – TENNIS

At the 2022 Nationals conducted by the Sri Lanka Tennis Association(SLTA), Dinara won a triple winning the Junior National (under18) Singles & Doubles Titles and also the Under 16 singles title. Dinara ended 2022 as the Number 1 ranked Junior Player in Sri Lanka having won the under 18 singles title at 3 out of the 4 major local tournaments.
In 2022 Dinara represented Sri Lanka at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Junior Tennis Asia Oceania Qualifying Event held in India.

Dinara plays in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis Tour Junior circuit Under 18.

For her performances during the year Dinara was adjudged the “Outstanding Schools Tennis Player of Year” at the National Schools Sports Awards in January of 2023.