Junior Davis Cup:

Good start for Sri Lanka

Richard Dwight

The Junior Davis Cup (BNP Paribas) and the world Junior Tennis Competition both of the pre qualifying stage in the Asia/Oceania zone, are concurrently taking place - with the competitions having begun yesterday at the SLTA courts.

In the opening day, Sri Lanka did well to win both their ties one against Saudi Arabia in the Junior Davis Cup preliminaries and the other in the first game of the Junior Tennis competition against Syria. Sri Lankans dominated play to the extent that they won all three matches in each category.

Results

Singles-

Junior Davis Cup (Preliminary) Sri Lanka vs Saudi Arabia

V. De. Alwis (SL) bt: Q. Sulaiman (SA) 6/2, 6/4

T. Eshwarage (SL) bt: A. Khalid Al Sayah 6/3, 6/1.

Doubles

V.De Alwis and Chinthika Shaveen Durage (SL) bt: B.M. Al Omran and S.Al Qasem 6/3, 6/1.

Singles preliminaries

Junior Tennis Competition: Sri Lanka vs Syria

A. Fairbanks (SL) bt: Kareem Al Allaf (Syria) 6/4, 6/2

Shammal Dissanayake (SL) bt: Zaki Bidan (Syria) 6/0, 6/2

Doubles

Shammel Dissanayake and Nishangan Nadarajah (SL) bt: Kareem Al Allaf and Z. Boudjaki (Syria) 6/4, 6/1.