Dineshkanthan and Thayakaran are singles tennis champions
T.Dineshkanthan downed Irfan Hussein and Shankari Thayakaran defeated Amritha Mutthiah to emerge the men’s and women’s singles champions at the 97th Colombo Tennis Championships that was conducted by the Playing Section of the SLTA recently.
Furthermore, Dineshkanthan went on to bag a double when he partnered Rajeev Rajapakse to win the men’s doubles by defeating Heera Ashiq and Tanveer Ashiq. Results Men’s singles: T. Dineshkanthan beat Irfan Hussein.
Women’s singles: Shankari Thayakaran beat Amritha Mutthiah.
Men’s doubles: T. Dineshkanthan and Rajeev Rajapakse beat Heera Ashiq and Tnaver Asiq.
Dineshkanthan went onto bag a double when he partnered Rajeev Rajapakse to win the men’s doubles by defeating Heera Ashiq and Tanveer Ashiq
Women’s doubles: Shalini De Silva and Amritha Muttiah beat Nethmi Waduge and Wickramaratne.
Mixed doubles: Rajeev Rajapakse and Amritha Muttiah beat T. Dineshkanthan and Roshenka Fernando.
Boys’ under 14 doubles: Joshua Jayaratne and Kishanthan Rajendrasingham beat Nabeel Sabri and Viranka Fernando.
Girls’ under 14 doubles: Nethmi Waduge and Melissa Jayawardene beat Fathoum Issadeen and Hasindi Lokuge.
Boys’ under 16 doubles: Avishka Perera and Dhanushka Abeywardena beat Davishka Ranasinghe and Sanjeev Mohankumar.
Boys’ under 18 doubles: Yasitha De Silva and S. Pathirage beat Nishangan Nadarajah and Chehan Fernando.
Boys’ under 12 singles: Avindra Perera beat Yasith Ratnaayake.
Girls’ under 12 singles: Umeshi Ranaweera beat Piumi Wikramsinghe
Boys’ under 14 singles: Naheel Sabri beat Joshua Jayaratne.
Girls’ under 14 singles: Nethmi Waduge beat Rukshana Abdeen,
Boys’ under 16 singles: Danushka Abeywardena beat Chehan Fernando.
Girls’ under 16 singles: Nethmi Waduge beat Thewuni Devaraja.
Nishangan Nadarajah beat Aritha Weerasinghe.
Girls’ under 18 singles: Vinuri Wickramaratne beat Danya Madugalle.