Ishara and Rohana crowned Most Outstanding TT players
The curtain came down on the 68th National Table Tennis Championships 2014 organised by the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka at the
Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament – Men’s: Rohan Sirisena (Stag TT Academy)
Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium recently when Ishara Madurangi of Sri Lanka Air Force and Stag TT Academy’s Rohana Sirisena were crowned the Most Outstanding Players of the Tournament in the M en’s and Women’s segments respectively.
Ishra Madurangi was an automatic choice for the award as she finished as Women’s singles runner-up, Doubles runners-up, a semi-finalist and being the champion in the Mixed Doubles event. Rohan Sirisena also showed a lot of promise in the championship to become the runner-up in the Men’s Singles, winning the championships in the Doubles
Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament – Women’s: Ishara Madurangi (Sri Lanka Air Force)
and in the Mixed Double events.
The game that stole the limelight at this year’s competition was the Veteran’s Men’s Singles event. Two former Sri Lanka TT stalwarts Lalith Priyantha of Butterfly Sports Club and Dr. Nimal Lucas of Veterans TT Association displayed their superiority watched by hundreds of enthusiastic present day players. Both showed that they had not lost the former touch in their heydays and exhibited a variety of well controlled and well placed shots as the game went on to the fourth set to decide the winner. The doctor had a very successful operation in the first set to win 11/7 but Priyantha changed his style of play to win the remaining three sets easily.
-LR
Results of all finals:
Under 21 Girls; singles: Nuwani Vithanage (Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda) bt. Erandi Warusawithana (Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda) 14/12, 11/09, 11/06
Boys’ Singles: Prasad De Silva (Vidyartha College Kandy) bt. Chameera Ginige (University of J’pura) 11/02, 11/08, 11/07
Open Women’s Consolation Singles: Ruvini Kannangara (Musaeus College) bt. Natasha Sandavinee (Visaka Vidyalaya Colombo) 12/14, 11/07, 11/05
Men’s: Dinesh Kavishka (Vidyartha College Kandy) Shehan Shanaka (Sri Devananda College Ambalangoda) 11/08, 12/14, 11/09
Masters Men’s Singles: Indika Prasad (Sri Lanka Navy) bt. V.S. Balasubramanium (Central Province Education Department) 11/04, 11/09, 11/07
Veterans Men’s Singles: Lalith Priyantha (Butterfly Sports Club) bt. Dr. N. Lucas (Veterans TT Association) 07/11, 11/05, 11/06, 11/08
Open Mixed Doubles: Rohan Sirisena (Stag TT Academy)/Ishara Madurangi (Sri Lanka Air Force) bt. Kulanka Hendahewa (Royal College Colombo)/Chamathsara Fernando (Visaka Vidyalaya Colombo) 11/06, 11/05, 11/03
Open Women’s Doubles: Chamathsara Fernando/Hansani Piumila (Visaka Vidyalaya) bt. Buddheepani Rajaguru (Maliyadeva BMV Kurunegala)/Ridmi Karadanaarachchi (Mahamaya Girls College Kandy) 12/10 09/11, 12/10, 05/11, 11/08
Open Men’s Doubles: Rohan Sirisena (Stag TT Academy)/Milinda Lakshita (Sri Lanka Air Force) bt. Udaya Ranasinghe (Vidyartha College Kandy)/B.N.B. Jayasinghe (MAS Intimates) 11/04, 11/07, 07/11, 06/11, 11/09
Open Women’s Singles: Erandi Warusawithana (Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda) bt. Ishara Madurangi (Sri Lanka Air Force) 09/11, 11/13, 11/08, 09/11, 01/11
Open Men’s Singles: Udaya Ranasinghe (Vidyartha College Kandy) bt. Rohan Sirisena (Stag TT Academy) 11/05, 11/04, 11/02, 07/11, 11/04