Thisuri Molligoda beat Thewuni Devaraja while Nishangan Nadaraja got the better of his schoolmate at St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya, Chehan Fernando, to clinch the Girls and boys Under-18 Singles titles respectively at the SSC Open Tennis Tournament in Colombo.
It is noteworthy that St. Peter’s schoolboys reached the finals in Boys Singles and Doubles in both Under-16 and 18 age group events this year at SSC.
RESULTS:
Mixed Doubles:
Finals: Sankha Atukorale & Medhira Samarasinghe bt Thangarajah Dineshkanthan & Kemalie Herath (Seed 1)
Semi-finalists: Dhanuskha Abeywardena & Amritha Muttiah, and Delwar Hossain & Nilushi Fernando
Girls Under-18 Singles:
Finals: Thisuri Molligoda (1) bt Thewuni Devaraja (2)
Semi-finalists: Chalani Gunathilaka and Hasindhi Lokuge (3)
Boys’ Under-18 Singles:
Finals: Nishangan Nadaraja (1) bt Chehan Fernando (4)
Semi-finalists: Avishka Perera (5) and Dhanuskha Abeywardena (2)
Boys’ Under-16 Doubles:
Finals: Archana Lokuge & Ravindu Weerasinghe (1) bt Nabeel Sabry & Isuru Wijeratne (2)
Semi-finalists: Anarga Peiris & Jerique Rajapakse (4), and Tharindu Dassanayake & Tharin Munasinghe
Boys’ Under-18 Doubles:
Finals: Dhanuskha Abeywardena & Avishka Perera (2) bt Chehan Fernando & Nishangan Nadaraja (2)
Semi-finalists: Udayakumar Dilishanth & Shanitha Perera, and Sanjeew Mohankumar & Davishka Ranasinghe
Girls’ Under-14 Doubles:
Finals: Tarah Greig & Janali Manamperi (2) bt Prabuddhi Perera & Anika Seneviratne (1)
Semi-finalists: Pamoda Jayasekera & Umeshi Ranaweera (3), and Sathi Silva & Piyumi Wickramasinghe
Veterans’ Over-45 Doubles:
Finals: Chammika de Silva & Ganendran Subramaniam bt K. A. R. L. Kuruppuaarachchi & S. M. A. Samarakoon
Semi-finalists: Damian Fernando & S. Vasanthan, and N. T. R. Dahanayake & D. A. Weththasinghe.