Dineshkanthan/Jayawickreme takes doubles title

Qin wins girls singles crown:

Richard Dwight

Coming out on top to be girls singles champion was China's, Siyu Qin, in the ITF Junior tennis tournament yesterday at the SLTA courts when she defeated India's leading player Tarrannum Handa.

Both Qin and Handa were very consistent in the week long competition, where they got through the preliminaries the quarters and semi-finals and here in the finals the contest seemed evenly poised. Qin was impressive in the first set and won the second set saw her being stretched to the extent of conceding the set to Handa after a bitter struggle.

In the deciding final set Qin held her own to stamp her authority to win it easily and the tie.

In a hard fought tie for the boys doubles title a determined Chinese combination of Zhaoyl Cao and J.N. Tao put up much pressure against the Sri Lankan duo of Amresh Jayawickrema and T. Dineshkanthan. Sri Lankan pair combined well to just win the first set, in the second set they had to battle hard to win it and doubles title.

Results

Girls singles finals

Siyu Qin (China) beat T. Handa (Ind) 6/3, 5/7, 6/0.

Boys doubles finals

A. Jayawickrema and T. Dineshkanthan (SL) beat Z. Cao and J.N. Tao (China) 6/4, 7/6.