Dinara de Silva advance to ITF semis

By M. Shamil Amit

Sri Lanka’s Dinara de Silva qualified to play in two semi-finals of the ITF Junior Circuit Week 1 Tennis Tournament at the SLTA Courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday.

Dinara put in a sterling performance to record a comfortable 2-0 win over Trusha Jani of Australia and in the doubles quarter-finals she partnered Savitha Bhuvaneswaran of India and overcame Trusha and 
Saria Urazalina. 

Results: 
Girls’ Singles (quarter-finals): Dinara de Silva (Sri Lanka) beat Trusha Jani (Australia) 6-1, 6-0. Yu-Ching Hsieh (Taipei) beat Savitha Bhuvaneswaran (India) 6-3, 6-3. Abigail Elham (India) beat Yu-Ching Wang (Taipei) 6-3, 0-6, 6-3. Boys’ Singles (quarter-finals): Vishal Vasudev (India) beat Kangyuan Shi (China) 6-0, 6-2. Hung Yu Chen (Taipei) beat Daniel Vanek (Czech) 6-2, 6-0. Brice Vincent (Philippines) beat Pranav Manandhar (Nepal) 6-0, 6-3. Girls’ Doubles (quarter-finals): Dinara de Silva (Sri Lanka/Savitha Bhuvaneswaran (India) beat Trusha Jani (Australia)/Saria Urazalina 6-1, 7-5. Vennela Reddy/Vamika Sharma (India) beat Saanvi Misra/Saiyette Varadkar (India) 6-1, 6-2. Abigail Elham (India)/Yu-Ching Hsieh (Taipei) beat Gehansa Methnadi (Sri Lanka)/Guyun Yuvhi (China) 6-2, 6-0. Boys’ Doubles (quarter-finals): Hung Yu Chen/Yen-Chun Wang (Taipei) beat Louis Knese (Germany)/Ziqi Li (China) 6-2, 6-1. Ivan Ponomarev (Kazakhastan)/Perawat Sukjai (Thailand) beat Daniel Vanek/Stepan Ziska (Czech) 2-0 (6/2, 7/6). Pranav Manandhar/Rajbir Pradhan (Nepal) beat Ganuka Fernando/Lisal Goonetileke (Sri Lanka) 6-3, 6-2. Ranvir Singh/Shaurya Swarup (India) beat Aahil Kaleel/Gehash Tissera (Sri Lanka) 6-2, 6-3.