MAS clinch three titles

MAS clinched three titles at the inter club knock-out Mercantile Table Tennis Championship that was concluded at S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia on Friday.

They won the men’s division beating Seylan Bank, the women’s division also beating Seylan Bank and the women’s B division defeating HSBC.

A total of 55 teams representing 21 firms participated in the tournament.

The highlight of the tournament was the 38th consecutive appearance of the evergreen Rajiva Wijetunge of MAS. Wijetunge has the distinction of representing three firms Ceylon Tobacco, Ceylinco and now MAS in the tournament.

The chief guest was former nine times national champion Deepika Rodrigo while the guest of honour was Indika Prasad--the national runner’s up seven times. Results (Final result) Men’s Division MAS (Nirmala Jayasinghe, Yohan Deshapriya, Sukitha Wickramanayake, Gimhan Walisundera and Rajiva Wijetunge) beat Seylan Bank (K.S.T. Chalitha Ranjana Sasika Wijesundera, Saminda Renuka, Chamith Dinoj and Maitha Dilusha) 3/1. Women’s division MAS (Srimalee Wiamalaratne and Kalpani Herath) beat Seylan Bank (Dulmini Wijebandara and Chethika Sasini) 2/0.

Women’s ‘B’ - division - MAS beat HSBC 2/0

Men’s - ‘C’ division - Dialog Axiata beat MAS 3/1

Men’s ‘D’ division - Virtusa beat Seylinco 3/1

Men’s - ‘E’ division - Commercial Bank beat Astron SC 3/0 (BM)