The Junior Pickleball Championship decided India's U14 & U18 squads for Da Nang. All 20 finals, the champions, and the session-by-session log from the weekend that picked the team.
Trials over — 19 of 20 titles decided. Veer Shah finished with five; Arjun Singh swept the U18 boys. The squad picture is set.All trials news →
The trials · JPC 2026
Three days in Ahmedabad
The complete record of the weekend, transcribed from the official results as they were published. India's U14 and U18 squads for Da Nang came out of these draws.
Event
Junior Pickleball Championship (JPC) 2026
Dates
Jun 12 – 14, 2026
Venue
Dinkers Pickleball Academy & Club, Shilaj, Ahmedabad
Sanction
PWR 400 · DUPR rated · IPA affiliated
Format
Group + playoff · 20 events across U12 / U14 / U16 / U18
At stake
U14 & U18 squad places for Da Nang, on merit at this one event
Why it matters
Three days, two squads
Unlike the seniors — picked on PWR rankings and the Picklebay Zonals — India's juniors earn Da Nang places on pure competitive merit at this one event, plus mandatory fitness testing. The U14 and U18 winners' circle that weekend became, in effect, the first draft of Team India 2026. The U12 and U16 draws don't feed the World Cup squads directly, but they're the pipeline — and the same courts, same weekend.
The board · 20 finals
Results, as they land
Champions and runners-up per event, straight from the venue's published results. One event never had a winner posted — see the note below.
U12 · pipeline
WU12 Boys SinglesAarin Ballani · def. Raghav Kumar
WU18 Girls DoublesMinal Shaik Kalyan & Ashritha Raju · def. Ruvanashri SK & Aashrithaa S
Final board — results as of Jun 14, 2026. 19 of 20 titles were decided; the U12 girls' doubles was the one event without a winner posted on the official results.
The log
Session by session
Trials
The trials closed with ten more finals — 19 of the 20 titles decided, and the U14 & U18 squad-deciding events all settled.
Veer Shah was the championship's runaway story: the U14 boys singles and the U14 boys doubles (with Aarin Ballani) and the U16 boys doubles (with Vivan Patel) took his haul to five titles across the weekend, on top of his U16 singles and U14 mixed.
Arjun Singh — three US Open medals coming in — owned the U18 boys' draws: singles over Vivan Patel, the doubles with brother Aditya Singh, and the mixed with Naomi Amalsadiwala. Aashrithaa added the U14 girls singles to her U16 crown; Mahika Rathod took the U14 girls doubles with Maanasi Karthik.
Diya Mattipati won the U18 girls singles and Minal Shaik Kalyan & Ashritha Raju the U18 girls doubles. With the merit-based U14 and U18 results in, the first picture of India's Da Nang junior squad is set — the official roster follows from the IPA.
Trials
Five more finals fell on Saturday, closing out the U12 and U16 podiums and crowning the first U14 title — nine of the 20 events are now decided.
Aarin Ballani swept the U12 boys' draw: the singles (def. Raghav Kumar), the doubles with Abir Mittal, and the mixed alongside Vidisha Vijay Shinde — who herself doubled up after Friday's U12 girls singles crown.
Veer Shah added a second title, taking the U14 mixed doubles with Mahika Rathod to go with his U16 singles. Anushka Chhabria also made it two — partnering Panth Thakkar to the U16 mixed crown to sit beside her U16 girls doubles win.
The U14 and U18 singles and doubles — the events that directly decide India's World Cup squads — are the headline finals still to come on Sunday.
Trials
Four titles decided on opening day: U12 girls singles, U16 boys singles, and both U16 girls events reached their finals.
Veer Shah — the 2025 World Cup Junior MVP — opened his trials with the U16 boys singles title, beating fellow squad-watch name Panth Thakkar in the final. Vivan Patel took third.
Anushka Chhabria, a four-medal junior at Florida 2025, won the U16 girls doubles with Mahika Rathod; Aashrithaa beat Dhiyaa Prasanna Kumar for the singles crown. The U12 girls title went to Vidisha Vijay Shinde.
Trials
More than 100 players from across India are in Ahmedabad for the three-day championship. Group stages open Friday morning; finals land across the weekend.
The benchmark: Veer Shah, 2025 World Cup Junior MVP. Among the names to watch — Arjun Singh (three US Open medals) and Naomi Amalsadiwala.
This board fills in as finals finish — champions and runners-up for all 20 events, updated after each session.
