Thisuri and Nishangan, Under-18 title winners at SSC

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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.