99TH NATIONAL AND JUNIOR NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Medhira in semis, aiming for double
(Dhananjaya de Silva 54, Charith Fernando 43, Roscoe Thattil 33, Nishamal Fernando 29, Prabodha Arthavidu 20: Dushan Vimukthi 7 for 37, Kasun Rajitha 2 for 70) (Eranga Ratnayake 100, Shaminda Maduranga 43, Dhananjaya de Silva 38, Prabodha Arthavidu 31, Nishamal Fernando 21, Jason Perera 18, Charith Fernando 18, Amila Aponso 15 n.o.: Dushan Vimukthi 4 for 102, T. Nadeera 2 for 49, Udara Ranasinghe 2 for 51) (Pasindu Isira 64, Kavindu Ashan 15: Dhananjaya de Silva 5 for 30, Amila Aponso 4 for 45)
At P. Sara Stadium
(Vishwa Wijeratne 76, Shashen Fernando 26: Mateesha Perera 4 for 51, Pramod Liyanagamage 3 for 36, Ishara Prashan 2 for 32)
(Ramesh Mendis 61, Sanka Ramesh 52, Dasun Shanaka 40, Vishwa Wijeratne 26: (Mateesha Perera 4 for 69, Minhaj Jaleel 3 for 24)
(Manoj Sarathchandra 15: Nuwan Thushara 4 for 28, Chamika Karunaratne 2 for 15, Dasun Shanaka 2 for 15)
Medhira Samarasinghe who won the Girls Un18 title three days ago is aiming to clinch a double and has put herself in contention when she qualified to the U16 semi- finals defeating Oshani Wickramasinghe in the quarterfinal encounter which was played in the mornings session at the SLTA hard courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday.
Medhira had a successful campaign in the U18 age group where she put in a fine display defeating third
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