Four Sri Lankans advance to ITF second-round

Four Sri Lanka junior players came out victorious in the first-round matches of the ITF Junior Circuit Week-2 Tennis Tournament during the rain-affected first day at the SLTA Courts in Green Path, Colombo.

In the Boys’ category Methwan Wijemanne, Zaidh Zihar and Vichinthya Nilaweera won their respective matches against Dev Kanbargimath of Romania, Loius Knese of Germany and Prakaash Sarran of India while in the Girls’ category Anitra Dharmaratne overcame Leyla Knese of Germany to advance to the second-round.

No play was possible on day two due to heavy rain and the ITF Junior Circuit Week-1 Tournament was called off and the organisers were forced to cancel the two finals due to time factor. (M. Shamil Amit)

Results

(Girls first-round Singles): Anitra Dharmaratne (Sri Lanka) beat Leyla Knese (Germany) 5-7, 7-5, 10-2. Diva Bhatia (India) beat Diyana Vithanage (Sri Lanka) 6-0, 6-0. Yuhan Chen (China) beat Anisha Sivakumar (India) 6-2, 6-1. Sreenidhi Balaji (India) beat Hanna Furutani (Japan) 6-4, 4-6, 10-2. Yeon Joo Cha (Korea) beat Venuli Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka) 6-1, 6-2. Rishitha Basireddy (India) beat Ruo Qing Yang (China) 6-1, 6-1. Amodini Naik (India) beat Sandithi Usgodaarachchi (Sri Lanka) 6-1, 6-1.

(Boys’ first-round Singles): Methwan Wijemanne (Sri Lanka) beat Dev Kanbargimath (Romania) 4-6, 6-3, 10-5. Zaidh Zihar (Sri Lanka) beat Loius Knese (Germany) 6-3, 6-3. Vichinthya Nilaweera (Sri Lanka) beat Prakaash Sarran (India) 6-2, 6-3. Jintao Lan (China) beat Hrisheek Vavilapally (India) 6-3, 6-1. Mao Tazruru (Japan) beat Prasanna Rao (India) 6-4, 5-3. Nordal Clausen (Denmark) beat Siddhanth Sharma (India) 6-3, 6-2. Kevin Jorquera (Italy) beat Lisal Goonetileke (Sri Lanka) 7-6, 7-5. Samprit Sharma (India) beat Bader Idrees (Saudi Arabia) 7-5, 6-2. Xianfeng Chen (China) beat Swatik Sharma (India) 6-1, 6-0. Gourav Kothapalli (India) beat Yuta Amano (Japan) 6-2, 6-4. Eita Suzuki (Japan) beat Guy Dalzell (USA) 6-2, 6-3.