For $1< p\le 2$ , we establish sharp inequalities for the Fourier transform of the characteristic function of the $l^{p}$ -unit ball $B_{p}\subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$ . We show that \( \sup _{\boldsymbol{\omega}\in \mathbb{R}^{2}}\|\boldsymbol{\omega}\|_{2}^{3/2}| \widehat{\chi _{B_{p}}}(\boldsymbol{\omega})|\asymp (p-1)^{-1/2} \quad \text{as }p\rightarrow 1+ \) As an application, we obtain corresponding bounds for lattice point discrepancy inequalities for dilates of $B_{p}$ .