Amresh takes boys under 18 singles title

Sanjaya Ariyaratne

Seeded number three Amresh Jayawickrame put up a stunning performance to topple the top seed and the favourite Michael Siyaguna in the boys' under 18 singles final of the Milo Junior Tennis National Championship being held at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts, Colombo 7.

Amresh won the final in a straight two setter. Both sets went to the full distance and ended up with tie breaker (7/5,7/5).

Both players had a chance of winning the title but Jayawickrame held his nerves to add the finishing touches. In the semi finals Amresh Jayawickrame got the better of Dineshkanthan Thangarajah 6/2,6/4 while M. Siyaguna outplayed G. Weerasekara 5/7,7/6,6/4.

Meanwhile, Jithmie Jayawickrame cruised into a convincing straight two setter victory over Sherene Wijesinghe the winner of the Outstanding Junior Sportswoman award.

The former won the first set not going down even one game and took the second and last set giving away only one game played yesterday (6/0,6/1).

In the semi finals Jithmie Jayawickrema beat Nilupul Gunasekera 6/1, 6/1 while Sherene Wijesinghe beat Druvinka Moraes 6/2, 6/4 to book her place in the final.

Boys' (semi finals) under 12- Sharmal Dissanayake beat Nishangan Nadarajah 6/2,6/0, Dhanushka Abeywardane beat Alex Fairbanks 6/0,6/0, under 14 (quarter finals)- Vimuktha de Alwis beat Thuruna Eshwarage 6/1,6/0. Girls' (semi finals) under 12- Thisuri Molligoda beat Waduge 6/1,6/1, D. Silva beat Issadeen 6/1,6/1,

Under 14- Nilushi Fernando beat Gomesz 6/0,6/0,