Four Lankan players for Asian Senior Squash Tourney

Sanjaya Ariyaratne

Six member squad including four players and two officials left the island yesterday to take part in the 14th Asian Senior Squash Championships 2008 which gets underway in Kuwait today.

The tournament is being conducted by the Asian Squash Federation and will be continued till February 21.

Altogether fourteen countries will vie for honours in this championship including Malaysia, Macau, Qatar, Japan, Korea, host Kuwait, Pakistan, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, China, Palestine and Iran. Malaysians are the hot favourites for this event as both top and bottom seeds are from Malaysia.

The Sri Lanka team comprises national number two player Naveen Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka number three Anura Hewage and Gihan Suwaris while Eranga Amunugama went as stand by.

Ranjan Samarasinghe joined the team as the coach with Palitha Weerasinghe will accompany the team as the Manager.

In the first match for Sri Lanka Navin Samarasinghe will take on Ammar Tamimi from host country Kuwait while Gihan Suwaris will be up against an iranian M.H. Seyed Sanaee.

Anura Hewage will begin his campaign when he meet Mohammed Marri from Qatar in his first match.