Sri Lanka tennis nationals in its final stages

Richard DWIGHT

The Tennis Nationals will be brought to a close on Sunday, September 13, with quite a few finals commencing at 2 p.m. to end with the awards ceremony at the SLTA.

Those that excelled right through the championship as expected was, Harshana Godamanne the reigning champion, Rajeev Rajapakse the equally talented, and the very promising T. Dineshkanthan.

The star performers Godamanne and Rajapakse have worked their way through to be pitted against each other, in what could be a very absorbing final for the singles title.

An interesting clash for the women’s singles champion will be witnessed between two strong contenders in Amirtha Muthiah and Nilpul Gunesekara yesterday’s play at the, SLTA courts was confined to the men’s and women’s semi finals doubles matches with the odd semifinal mixed doubles match.

Result:

Semi-Finals - Men’s Doubles - H. Godamanne and R. Rajapakse bt: S. Gomesz and A. Hewa Kottage 6/0, 6/0, 6/2.

S. Athukorale and R. Cooray bt: R. de Silva and J. Wijesekera 6/4, 6/4, 6/4.

Semi-finals - Women Doubles Shalini de Silva and A. Muttiah bt: V. Wichremaratne and R. Sivakanthan 6/0, 6/1.

Shobini de Silva and R. Fernando bt: N. Gunesekara and K. Herath 5/7, 6/2, 6/2.

Mixed Doubles Semi finals Nilushi Fernando and R. de Silva bt: Kemali Herath, and Y. Dewage 3/6, 7/5, 6/1.