Sri Lanka's top ranked wheelchair tennis player, Gamini Dissanayake won the Men's Singles event at the Westend Wheelchair Tennis Championship held in Belgium.
Partnering with Upali Rajakaruna, Dissanayake gave Sri Lanka a double win when they clinched the Men's Doubles title to sign off the competition in a high note.
Dissanayake beat Rubin Spargin of Holland in straight set, 6-0 and 6-4, to win the final comfortably by 2-0.
In the semi-finals he beat Belgium's Jeff Vandorf 2-0 to reach the final.
Earlier in the quarter-finals he overcame fellow compatriot Rajakaruna 2-0, after recording 6-4 and 6-3 wins in each sets.
In the Men's Doubles final Dissanayake and Rajakaruna paired up to beat Belgium's Ivan Kindt and Holland's Rubin Spargin 2-0, 7-5 and 6-3.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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