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World Tennis Tour Junior Finals

international tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ55614191 ↗
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The World Tennis Tour Junior Finals is a year-end singles tournament for the top-ranked 18-and-under tennis players on the World Tennis Tour Juniors. It is the second most prestigious annual junior event in terms of rankings points awarded, after the four junior grand slams. Each year, eight boys and eight girls participate in separate events. The tournament is designed to emulate the ATP Finals and WTA Finals. Each event features two round-robin groups vying for spots in the knockout rounds that determine the champion.

It is played outdoor on hard surface since first edition. The 2024 edition was played from 16 to 20 October.

History

The ITF Junior Finals was founded in 2015, and has been held in Chengdu, China each year. The first two editions were held as exhibitions. 2017 edition of the competition was the first to be held at the end of the year.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Tennis Tour Junior Finals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.