Dinara, Methwan emerge U-14 champions
At the two Under-14 Singles finals of the 106th Colombo Tennis Championship played at the SLTA courts in Greenpath, Colombo, Dinara de Silva and Methwan Wijemanne emerged victorious in the girls and boys categories respectively.
In other matches worked off, Saajida Razick won the second semi-final of the Under-16 Girls' Singles. She will now meet Vishmi Serasinghe in the final.
In the Under-16 Girls' Doubles semi-final, pairs of Dinethya Dharmaratne and Anitra Dharmaratne and Saajida Razick and Dinara de Silva recorded wins to book the berth in the final.
The championship will be continued today.
RESULTS Finals:
Girls Under-14 Singles: Dinara de Silva beat Gehansa
Methnadi 2-0 (4/2, 4/1)
Boys Under-14 Singles: Methwan Wijemanne beat
Dhanushka Dias 2-0 (5/3, 5/2) Semi-finals:
Girls Under- 16 Singles: Saajida Razick beat Dinethya
Dharmaratne 2-0 (4/1, 4/1)
Girls Under- 16 Doubles: Dinethya Dharmaratne/ Anitra Dharmaratne beat Senulya Wijayawardena/Binudi Wijayawardena 2-1 (4/0, 0/4, 10/8); Saajida Razick/Dinara de Silva beat Inuki Jayaweera/Melasha Randini 2-0 (4/0, 4/1) Quarter-finals:
Boys Under-14 Doubles: Aweesh Ganegoda/Kenuka Geeganage beat Kenula Ratnayake/Pasindu Rukunayake 2-1 (4/2, 2/4, 10/3)
Boys Under-16 Doubles: Methwan Wijemanne/Lisal
Goonetileke beat Ransath Peiris/Sandaru Guruge 2-1 (1/4, 4/2, 10/5)
Boys Under-16 Doubles: Thilina Dissanayake/Nithila Goonetileke beat Tharuk Marasinghe/Sandas Usgodaarachchi 2-0 (5/3, 4/0)
Girls Under-18 Doubles: Dewmini Warnasuriya/ Nishka Vivekanandan beat Nesangi Hemakumara/ Vishmi Serasinghe 2-0 (5/3, 4/0)
Men’s Open Doubles: Chathurya Nilaweera/ Thehan Wijemanne beat Nishendran Sivendran/Michael Siyaguna 2-0 (4/2, 4/2); Dineshkanthan Thangarajah/Rukmal Cooray beat Dhilvan Herath/Archana Lokuge 2-0 (4/2, 5/4)(4); Kavisha Ratnayake/Mohamed Rostom Ali beat Thilina Dissanayake/ Nithila Goonetileke 2-0 (4/0, 4/0); Anuth Wijesinghe/ Ruwan Fernando beat Sandas Usgodaarachchi/ Ashen Silva 2-0 (5/4(5) (4/2)