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Thilina and Deepika win titles Thilina Piyadasa of Vidyartha College and Deepika Rodrigo of Lake House SC emerged champions in the inaugural Aquarius Beach Club Open Table Tennis Championships for the Jens Baurish Memorial Trophy concluded at Mt. Lavinia yesterday. Top seed Piyadasa scored a thrilling five set win over bottom seed Indika Prasad in the men's final while Rodrigo, the number one woman player who is also the National Champion defeated experienced Namal Gunasekera in three straight sets to clinch the women's title. The most exciting game was the men's final which lasted nearly for one hour with both Indika and Thilina producing top class table tennis. Indika won the first two sets 21-10, 21-19, but determined Thilina who played to his full experience fought back strongly to win the final three sets 21-13, 21-11, 21-16. This was the last domestic tournament for Indika Prasad who will leave for Germany next Sunday for a one year contract period to play for Willstad TT Club. Samantha Jayadeva who was not selected for next Asian Championship in Japan created a major upset defeating Dilmini Direckz who was also a member of the Asian Championship team to tour Japan at the end of this month. For the first time in TT history, disabled soldiers participated in this tournament for four events. Lal Jayasinghe won the wheel chair event. Brigadier Dr. Dudley Perera, Director of Army Rehabilitation was the chief guest and gave away the awards. Asian German Sports Exchange Programme sponsored this tournament and all the trophies were donated by Germany's Baurish family to commemorate their late son. Results Finals • Novices Women's Singles : Nishendri Aponsu (Girls High School Mt. Lavinia) beat Anupama Kankanamge (Girls High School Kandy) 21-18, 15-21, 21-14. • Novices Men's Singles : T. T. Gunapala (Vidyartha) beat Oswald Perera (YMCA Kandy) 21-18, 18-21,21-19. • Intermediate Women's Single : Pradeepa Dilrukshi (St. Joseph's BMV Nugegoda) beat Dinali Galagedara (Maliyadeva) 21-17, 21-18. • Intermediate Men's Singles : B. N. B. Jayasinghe (Vidyartha) beat L. M. B. Dikkumbura (Vidyartha) 16-21, 21-13, 22-20. • Open Women's Doubles : Indika Prasad and Thilina Piyadasa beat Ravi Vindian and B. R. B. Dikkumbura 21-17, 21-16. • Mixed doubles — Rohan Sirisena and Samantha Jayadeva beat Thilina Piyadasa and Rifka Kameel 9-21, 21-9, 21-13. • Open Women's Singles — Deepika Rodrigo (Lake House SC) beat Namal Gunasekara (Lake House SC) 21-14, 21-9, 21-10. • Open Men's Singles — Thilina Piyadasa (Vidyartha) beat Indika Prasad (Abans Ltd.) 10-21, 19-21, 21-13, 21-11, 21-16. • Disabled Soldiers Events — Arm Amputees Upul Bandara beat R. R. V. T. Karunatilake 21-11, 21-11. • Leg Amputees — P. R. B. A. Bandara beat U. H. C. H. Wijesekeara 21-16, 11-21, 21-14. • Wheel Chair Bound — Lal Jayakody beat Kusum Weerasinghe 21-11, 21-16, 21-13. Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament Thilina Laknath Piyadasa (Vidyartha College Kandy). Nationalised Services TT begins today Nationalised Services knock out TT tournament will be held on September 8, 9, 10 at Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Gymnasium, Jagath Wickramasinghe Chairman of SL Insurance Corporation will be the chief guest (DR) Sri Lanka Junior Basketball team takes wing
to Japan The Sri Lanka Junior Women's Basketball team led by Nilusha Dilrukshi will take wing to Tokushima, Japan on Wednesday to take part in the 14th ABC Junior Women's Championships commencing on September 13. The contingent of twelve players and five officials is slated in group 'A' along with giants China, Malaysia and Laos. They will play China in certain raiser on September 13. The team which was under training for almost five months is fully confident. It has three players who had donned the junior national vest earlier at the junior youth tournament way back in 1996. Hashini de Silva who is one of the experienced players will be the assistant of Nilusha. According to previous ratings Lankans were placed eleventh out of 13 teams. Francis Perera will be the team manager while Supun Wimal will be coach and Hayaz Haroom as assistant coach. • The team: Premila Fernando, P. I. S. Juwan, A. K. K. Mahapatabendige, K. N. D. Heenatigala (Capt.) (St. Joseph’s, Nugegoda), H. M. R. de Silva (V. Capt.), A. M. Yahampath, E. Adikari (Sirimavo Balika), G. N. K. Silva (Our Lady V., Moratuwa), S. M. Weerasinghe (St. Briget’s Convent), L. N. S. Yatagama (Devi Balika), R. N. D. Valangenberg (Holy Family Convent, Kurunegala), Supun Wimal (Coach), Hayaz Haroon (Asst. Coach), Francis Perera (Manager), L. A. H. Ariyapperuma (Lady officer), Buddika Kumudapperuma (FIBA Referee). • The draw: September 13 — Sri Lanka vs China September 14 — Sri Lanka vs Malaysia September 15 — Sri Lanka vs Laos |
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