Srilankan Airlines retain badminton title
An injury to Ayesha Silva in the women’s final prevented Srilankan Airlines flying away with a “triple” for the fourth successive year, at the 16th Travel Trade Sports Club Men’s and Women’s Badminton Championships 2012, concluded at St. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, Indoor Stadium on Sunday.
Srilankan Airlines retained the two men’s titles, the open and the veterans for the fourth time in a row.
Srilankan Airlines women met Cinnamon Lakeside in the final. The two singles were shared by the two teams and the doubles was the clincher.
The Srilankan pair, the experienced K.T. Inosha Kumari (44) and Ayesha U Silva (28) was leading 13/9 in the first set when the younger player met with a nasty ankle injury which forced them to throw in the towel and award the match to the Hoteliers.
Matchresults
Mens Open: Q. Finals – Srilankan Airlines beat Cinnamon Lakeside 3/0; Hotel Dolphin beat Blue Water 3/1; Mermaid Hotel beat Gateway Airport Garden Hotel 3/0; Aitken Spence Travels beat Classic Travels 3/2;
S. Finals – Srilankan Airlines beat Hotel Dolphin 3/0; Mermaid Hotel beat Aitken Spence Travels 3/0;
Final: Srilankan Airlines beat Mermaid Hotel 3/0 Gene De Zilva and Rajitha Guruge (SL) beat Tuan Mahamoor & Nadeesha Udayanga (Mermaid) 21/15, 9/4 (W/O) ; Rajitha Guruge (SL) beat M.W.N. Dhammika (Mermaid) 21/9, 21/15; Gene de Zilva (SL) beat Nadeesha Udayanga (Mermaid) 21/19, 21/15.
Gene de Zilva from Srilankan was adjudged as the most outstanding player of the tournament.
Women’stournament
S. Finals: Srilankan Airlines beat John Keells Leisure 2/1; Cinnamon Lakeside beat Gateway Airport Garden 2/0
Final: Cinnamon Lakeside beat Srilankan Airlines 2/1, Pavithra Perera (SL) beat Gayani Dissanayake (CLS) 21/16, 21/12 ; Ravihari de Silva (CSL) beat Ayesha Silva (SL) 21/9, 21/7; Gayani Dissanayake and Ravihari de Silva (CLS) beat K.T. Inosha Kumari and Ayesha Silva (SL) 4/9 W/O.
Cinnamon Lakeside’s young and promising, Ravihari de Silva was picked as the most outstanding player of the tournament.
Mens Veteran’s (over 40) Q.finals : Srilankan Airlines beat Cinnamon Lake side 2/0; Gateway Airport Garden beat Traveller Global 2/0 ; Hotel Topaz beat Avani Kalutara 2/0; John Keells Leisure beat Mermaid Hotel 2/0
Semi –Finals: Srilankan Airlines beat Gateway Airport Garden 2/0; J. Keells Leisure beat Hotel Topaz 2/0
Final: Srilankan Airlines beat J. Keells Leisure 2/0, Upul Fernando (SL) beat Prabath Harshakumar (JKL) 21/13, 21/12; Anuraji de Silva (SL) beat Deelipa Jayasinghe (JKL) 21/4, 21/12.
Srilankan, Upul Fernando was picked as the most outstanding player of the tournament.
Gerard Victoria (President) , Dushi Jayaweera (Snr. Vice President), Keethi Jayaweera (former President) and Palitha Mendis (Committee Member), all from TTSC gave away the awards..