ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday, Augest 05, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 10
Sports

Indika pulls off surprise win

By Shon De Fry

The Sri Lanka Tennis Junior Nationals 2007, Boys singles Under 18 tournament was held yesterday at the SLTA. The second round winners who made the cut battled-it-out to secure their place in the semifinals.

As expected many of the top youngsters made it through the first and second rounds with ease with top Seed Gayanga Weerasekera knocking out Shehan Gomesz (6-2, 6-1) and Sharan Patel (6-2, 6-3) comfortably, making his way in to the semifinals. Now he will meet the 6th Seeded Yasas Dewage. Second seeded Michael Siyaguna too made it through to the semi-finals knocking-out Kaushala Kulathunga (6-1, 6-2) and Dharaka Ellawala (6-2, 6-1) without having to puff too hard. The biggest upset came when Indika Wettasinghe (seed 20) aced his way to victory over 8th seeded Thilina Chaminda (6-0, 6-0) and then going on to thrash Aravind Fernando (6-2, 6-4) to get him self entered in the semifinals where he will take on second seeded Michael Siyaguna on the court today, this one is expected to be a ‘Hot’ one.

The Junior National Girls singles and doubles tournament round one matchers will be played today at the same venue, with the girls under 18 age group matchers expected to be eagerly contested.

Boys Singles under 12, 1st Round Results
Alex Fairbanks (seed 1) defeat Shamal Dep (6-0, 6-0), Sharmal Dissanayake (seed 2) beat Supun Sanjaya Pathirage (6-0, 6-0), Sanjiv Mohankumar (seed 3) beat Radley Perumal (6-3, 6-2).

Boys Singles under 14, 1st Round Results
Nevinda Niraj de Silva (seed 1) beat Gotabaya Gallage (7-5, 6-3), Ma Shakir (seed 2) beat Dulitha Mendis (6-1, 6-0), Nicholas Fairbanks (seed 3) beat Akihila de Silva (6-2, 6-4)

Boys Singles under 16, 1st Round Results
Indika Wettasinghe (seed 1) walkover Suchiraka De Silva, Gayanga Weerasekera (seed 2) beat Nicholas Fairbanks (6-0, 6-0), Aravind Fernando (seed 3) beat Rajat Maheswari (6-2, 6-0).

 
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