Tennis in Sri Lanka

The game of Tennis in Sri Lanka was introduced by the British. The History of the Sri Lankan Tennis association dates back to the era when a few planters and tennis enthusiasts met together to form the Ceylon Lawn Tennis Association in 1915. Today it is better known as the Sri Lanka Tennis Association.
Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) was established in 1919.It takes pride in being the oldest Tennis Club in Asia. Today SLTA have become a popular venue for hosting tournaments of international standard.
Tennis as a sport has not garnered the popular support of the common folks, whose first love in sports is still Cricket but SLTA is contributing all its resources to make Tennis a popular game of Sri Lanka. They strive towards developing Tennis in Sri Lanka as a professional sport, encouraging all citizens to play tennis for better health in life and to produce world ranking Tennis players from Sri Lanka more.
Tennis in Sri Lanka is driven by the vision of SLTA to list the Sri Lankan Tennis team among the Top Three Tennis Playing Nations in Asia. It’s sole objective is to popularize Tennis in all parts of Sri Lanka as a Professional Sport and to produce and sustain top tennis professionals and produce world rank players .
List of Tennis clubs :Bandarawela tennis club
- Carlton Tennis club
- Cathedral Tennis club
- Chilow sports club
- Dehiwala /Mt.Lavinia Cosmopolitan Sports Club
- Dickoya / Maskeliya cricket club
- Galle services club
- Govt. servants lawn tennis club
- Govt. servants tennis club
- Govt. Surveyors sports club
- Gymkhana tennis club
- Kalutara lawn tennis club
- Kandana club
- Kandy garden club
- K.C.Y.M.A. Tennis club
Some of the young tennis stars of Sri Lanka who has made their country proud in this sporting arena are:
Dinuka Ranaweera who is a teenage tennis sensation who recently clinched the boy's under 18 title of the Junior National Hard Court Tennis Championships at the National Tennis Centre Court .One of his main goals for the future is to represent his country at the Davis Cup tournament as well as to get among the top 100 of the ITF Junior rankings.
Nadira de Silva booked her berth into the girls under 18 singles final in a hard-fought win at the Colombo Open Tennis Championships at the National Tennis Centre Courts at Greenpath . With such bright stars under the Sri Lankan tennis Association’s belt ,the future of Sri Lankan tennis certainly looks bright and rosy .It shows definite signs of making its mark felt at the International Tennis fraternity and hopefully it would put this subcontinent in the tennis world somewhere at the top in the near future.