The junior tennis players of St. Peter’s College Colombo emulated the performances of their senior players by becoming the All-Island Inter School Under-10 tennis champions at the tournament held at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) courts recently.
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| The St. Peter’s College junior tennis team with officials. |
The Peterite senior teams have won the All-Island championship five times in a row.
In the recently concluded National School Tennis Tournament, the Peterites also took part without the services of their top seeded player Nishangan Nadaraja who was ruled out due to an illness. However they finished as runners-up after closely losing the battle in the final.
The future of Peterite tennis took part in the Under-10 tournament being seeded fourth in the competition behind favourites Ananda, S. Thomas’ and Royal. But they came through their group matches comfortably beating Ananda D. S. Senanayake MV, S. Thomas’ ‘B’ and Matale International School.
The champion team comprised of Kevin Assauw, Thevinda Piyadigama, Naveen Abeygooneratne, Derrick Rony Francis, Raveen Abeygooneratne, Luqman Mowjood, Disna Abeysiriwardena and Jordon Choksy. With this victory in 2011, the Peterites have won the Under-10 championship, been runners-up in the Under-13 championship, the champions of both Under-15 and 17 age category and third place in the Under-19 event. The Peterites are coached by Dinith Pathiraja and Kevin Markandarajah assists him while Bernard Jesuthasan is the master-in-charge. This tournament was organized by the SLTA in conjunction with the Old Anandians Tennis Wing and was sponsored by Bartleet Finance. |
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