Table Tennis: MAS Holdings Men, Women win MTTA Knockout Team title

MAS Holdings stole the limelight at the Mercantile Table Tennis (TT) Association's 60th Anniversary Knockout Team Championship 2018, when their emerged 'A' Division champions last weekend at the S.Thomas' College Indoor Stadium. 

In the Men's 'A' Division final MAS scored a hard fought 3-2 victory over Seylan Bank to win Gold, while their Women also defeated Seylan Bank 3-0 in a one sided affair to clinch Gold. 

MAS Holdings Men: Nirmala Jayasinghe, Sukith Wickremanayake, Gimhan Walisundera and Rajive Wijetunge 

Women: Kalpani Herath, Srimalee Wimalaratne and Dulanjali Samarasinghe.
 
This year's edition had 68 teams from 30 corporates islandwide in contention where a high standard of TT was witnessed. 

The Men's Division was worked off in 5 Divisions while the Women's Division was in 3 Divisions. 

The top 5 teams at the conclusion of the tournament were: MAS, Syscolabs, Unilevers, Virtusa and Astron. 

Results 

Men: 

'A' Division - Gold: MAS 'A', Silver: Seylan Bank, Bronze: Dialog Axiata PLC 

'B' Division - Gold: Hayleys, Silver: MAS 'B', Bronze: Astron 'A' 

'C' Division - Gold: Commercial Bank, Silver: Virtusa, Bronze: Hatton National Bank 

'D' Division - Gold: CDB Finance PLC, Silver: HSBC Electronic Data Processing Lanka Pvt. 
Ltd., Bronze: Unilever 'A' 

'E' Division - Gold: Syscolabs 'A', Silver: Unilever 'B', Bronze: Astron 'B' 

Women: 

'A' Division - Gold: MAS 'A', Silver: Seylan Bank, Bronze: MAS 'B' 

'B' Division - Gold: Emjay International, Silver: Codegen International, Bronze: Virtusa 

'C' Division - Gold: Intervest Software Technologies, Silver: 99x Technology, Bronze: MAS 'D'