Junior Tennis Nationals:

Vimukthi beats Guyanga in semis

Richard Dwight

The Sri Lanka Junior National Championship which is in its penultimate stages at the SLTA Courts, did take quite a few by surprise when the 15 year old Vimukthi de Alwis, a junior Davis Cup Player in a three setter beat the more fancied 18 years old Guyanga Weerasekera, a senior Davis Cup player.

Vimukthi will now meet Dinesh Kanthan for the Junior Singles Sri Lanka Title, on Thursday at 2.00 p.m.

Results

Girls Finals

Singles U 14 - S. Thayakaran bt: D. Ranasinghe 6/2, 6/2

U 16 - S. Thayakaran bt: D. Ranasinghe 6/2. 6/4

U 18 - A Muttiah bt: N. Goonesekera 6/1, 6/1

U 12 - K de Silva bt: T. Molligoda 7/4, 6/2, 6/4

U 10 - M. Samarasinghe bt: A. Bandar 9/5.

Boys

Singles U12 - Finals - C. Fernando bt: A. Vimukthi 6/2, 6/1

Singles U 18 - Semi Finals - V.De Alwis bt: G. Weerasekera 3/6, 6/2, 7/4.

D. Kanthan bt: E. Jayamanne 6/4, 6/4.

Doubles Semi-Finals

Under 14 - D. Abeywardene and S. Disanayake bt: A. Weerasinghe and T. Nazar 6/3, 6/1.

N. Nishangan and A. Assauw bt: Y. de Silva, and S. Pathirage 6/2, 7/6.

Under 18 - G. Weerasekera and S. Gomesz bt: A. Dep and V. de Alwis 6/2, 6/4.

The semi-final under 18 Doubles between Dinesh Kanthan and Amresh Jayawickrema versus Yassas Dewage and Eshan Jayamanne was in progress.

The Boys Under 10 semi-finals and the boys Under 14 and Under 16 finals will be worked off this morning and the tournament will probably be brought to a close on Thursday.