Amritha retains her singles title

Angu RAJENDRAN

There was high action at the SLTA as the women’s final and the men’s doubles finals were completed late last evening. The defending champion of the women’s title Amritha Muthiah found it difficult to find her footing in the first set of the women’s championships against second seed Kemalie Herath.

However, she was playing defensive game and trying her best not to make mistakes. In the second set she made a great come-back, playing all winners and her powerful forehand shots helped her win the game 7-6, 6-3.

In the mens doubles, the semi final match that was continued from day before between Vimuktha de Alwis and Guyanga Weerasekara and senior players Jayendra Wijesekara and Roshan de Silva, youth reigned over experience as Vimuktha and Guyanga managed to beat Jayendra and Roshan through sheer stamina with a score of 4-6, 7-5, 7-6, 4-6, 8-6.

The final of the mens doubles was between Harshana Godamanne and partner Rajiv Rajapakse and Vimuktha de Alwis and partner Guyanga Weerasekara. ‘They are youngsters, let us see’ said Sri Lanka’s number one Harshana before the match although the audience knew the result of the match was a foregone conclusion with two Davis Cup players versus two youngsters.

Even though there were a few careless moments in the first set where the score stood at 7-6, the invincible partnership of Harshana and Rajiv won the final in straight sets 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-3.

Today card shows the mens final between Harshana Godamanne and Dineshkanthan Thangaraja and the womens doubles finals.