99TH NATIONAL AND JUNIOR NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Medhira in semis, aiming for double

(Dhananjaya de Silva 54, Charith Fernando 43, Roscoe Thattil 33, Nishamal Fernando 29, Prabodha Arthavidu 20: Dushan Vimukthi 7 for 37, Kasun Rajitha 2 for 70) (Eranga Ratnayake 100, Shaminda Maduranga 43, Dhananjaya de Silva 38, Prabodha Arthavidu 31, Nishamal Fernando 21, Jason Perera 18, Charith Fernando 18, Amila Aponso 15 n.o.: Dushan Vimukthi 4 for 102, T. Nadeera 2 for 49, Udara Ranasinghe 2 for 51) (Pasindu Isira 64, Kavindu Ashan 15: Dhananjaya de Silva 5 for 30, Amila Aponso 4 for 45)

At P. Sara Stadium

(Vishwa Wijeratne 76, Shashen Fernando 26: Mateesha Perera 4 for 51, Pramod Liyanagamage 3 for 36, Ishara Prashan 2 for 32)

(Ramesh Mendis 61, Sanka Ramesh 52, Dasun Shanaka 40, Vishwa Wijeratne 26: (Mateesha Perera 4 for 69, Minhaj Jaleel 3 for 24)

(Manoj Sarathchandra 15: Nuwan Thushara 4 for 28, Chamika Karunaratne 2 for 15, Dasun Shanaka 2 for 15)

Medhira Samarasinghe who won the Girls Un18 title three days ago is aiming to clinch a double and has put herself in contention when she qualified to the U16 semi- finals defeating Oshani Wickramasinghe in the quarterfinal encounter which was played in the mornings session at the SLTA hard courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday.

Medhira had a successful campaign in the U18 age group where she put in a fine display defeating third

seed Thewuni De-

varaja in the quarter- final and then overcame the top seed Thisuri Molligoda in the semi final before going on to clinch the U18 title. The 99th Men’s and Women’s National Championship too got underway with the first round matches being worked off in...

Ragama CC 208 and 313 Air Force SC (111/8 overnight) 126 SSC 197 overnight) 251 Tamil Union 71 and (16/0 and 45 for no loss