The curtain came down on a hotly contested Li-Ning Inter Firm Doubles Team Badminton Championship 2015 where 50 teams from 39 mercantile firms took part. MAS Holdings won the Grand Slam with Brandix Apparels ‘A’ and HDDES Extracts emerging champs in the Cup and Plate segments respectively. Organised and conducted by the Mercantile Badminton Association with Li-Ning being the main sponsor, 381 men’s players and 133 women players competed. A record number of 465 matches were played at the Mercantile Badminton Headquarters courts over the weekend. Every champion team didn’t find things easy with and had to fight all the way to the finals as the tournament turned out be a highly contested event from the first round. Every team in the contest showed that their main target is a win and it was evident in the four final matches as every match went on for the fourth while in the Plate final it was a closely contested event which went for five games. Final results: Grand Slam final: MAS Holdings beat McLarans Holdings 3-1 Winner – MAS Holdings (Pvt) Ltd.; Runner-up – McLarans Holdings; 3rd Place – Hatton National Bank Cup final: Brandix Apparels ‘A’ beat Seylan Bank 3-1 Winner – Brandix Apparels (Pvt) Ltd ‘A’; Runner-up – Seylan Bank Plc; 3rd Place – Nations Trust Bank ‘A’ Plate final: HDDES Extracts beat Nations Trust Bank ‘B’ 3-2 Winner – HDDES Extracts; Runner-up – Nations Trust Bank ‘B’; 3rd Place – John Keels Holdings Bowl final: Vertusa beat WSO2 Lanka 3-1 Winner – Vertusa; Runner-up – WSO2 Lanka; 3rd Place – Seylan Bank ‘B’
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