Mercantile Tennis back to close out the year

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Mercantile Tennis

The much-awaited Mercantile Tennis Tournament is live and sizzling at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association with the finals scheduled for the 10th December, Sunday. This will be the last event for SLTA and will close out the local Tennis calendar for 2017.

Defending champions MAS will look to retain the crown this year as well as they have put up an impressive team with many ex-national players. Shehan Gomez, Sherene Wijesinghe and Sohan Patrick are still in the mix for the 2016 champs and will be key to their performance this year too.

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Other high profiled players like Nilupul Gunasekara (Nestle Lanka), Ashan Dep (HSBC), M.A Shakir (Athilco Pvt Ltd) and Guyanga Weerasekara (Jinasena Pvt Ltd) will also represent their firms in this year’s clash.

The tournament is categorized into 13 age groups in both Men’s and Women’s events.

  • Mens Singles Div I
  • Mens Singles Div II
  • Mens Singles Div III
  • Mens Singles Over 35
  • Mens Singles Over 45
  • Mens Singles Over 55
  • Women’s Singles
  • Mens Doubles
  • Mens Double Over 35
  • Mens Double Over 35
  • Mens Double Over 35
  • Womens Doubles
  • Mixed Doubles

The first few rounds of the Men’s singles matches have already been worked off within the past two days with the semifinals of the Division I category to be played today. The first semifinal is between M.A Shakir of Athlico Pvt Ltd and Mewan Gajadeera of MAS Holdings while Guyanga Weerasekara of Jinasena will take on Ashan Dep of HSBC in the 2nd one. The quarters and semis of the Women’s Singles are also scheduled for this evening.

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