Methwan and Tharuk to battle in Under-14 final
Tharuk
Methwan Wijemanne and Tharuk Marasinghe, both students of Royal College, Colombo, qualified for the Boys Under-14 Singles final of the SSC Open Tennis Championship yesterday. They recorded comfortable wins over Sandas Uggodaarachchi and Lisal Goonetileke respectively in the semi-final encounters played at the SSC tennis courts in Maitland Place.
Meanwhile in the Men’s Open Doubles, the pairs of Sankha Athukorala and Yasitha de Silva and Dineshkanthan Thangarajah and Guyanga Weerasekera won their semi-final matches to book the berths to the final.
The championship will continue today.
Results:
Singles semi-finals:
Boys Under-14:
Methwan Wijemanne beat Sandas Uggodaarachchi 2-0 (6/1, 6/2)
Tharuk Marasinghe beat Lisal Goonetileke 2-0 6/3, 6/2)
Doubles semi-final:
Methwan
Men’s Open:
Sankha Athukorala/Yasitha de Silva beat Nishendran Sivendran/Michael Siyaguna 2-0 (6/1, 6/1) Dineshkanthan Thangarajah/Guyanga Weerasekera beat Mohamed Ali/Chehan Fernando 2-1
(7/6(1), 3/6, 10/3)
Quarter-final:
Women’s Open:
Nesangi Hemakumara/Vishmi Serasinghe beat Ashanthi Seneviratne/Tania Doloswala 2-1 (6/4, 2/6, 10/5).
Oneli Perera/Sethmi Sumanaweera beat N. Vivekanandan/Dewmini Warnasuriya 2-0 (6/3, 6/3)
Savini Jayasuriya/Janali Manamperi beat Vonara de Slwis/Arella de Zoysa 2-0 (6/0, 6/3)
Girls Under-14:
Akeesha Silva/Movindi Fernando beat O. Samarawickrama/Arushi Thomas 2-0 (4/2, 4/2)
Inuki Jayaweera/Melasha Randini beat Gehansa Methnadi/Githmi Fernando 2-1 (4/1, 4/0)