400 strong junior squash players will fight for national honours at the Air Force Squash Courts Complex Ratmalana from 12th Oct to 16th Oct 2019 at the 30th Ritzbury Junior National Squash Championship 2019.
The highly anticipated calendar event for the juniors will be sponsored for the 12th year by Ritzbury who continues to contribute to the games’ development.
The tournament is organized by Sri Lanka Squash to coincide with World Squash day on October 12th and the tournament kick off is scheduled with a series of events which will be organized by Ritzbury and Sri Lankan Squash. The event will begin with a series of exhibition matches in a fun filled format by the National team players together with the youngsters to celebrate the World Squash day.
Nilupul de Silva, General Manager Marketing, CBL Foods International (Pvt) Ltd commented “As part of our commitment to support the growth of sports amongst the younger population we have supported squash with the intention of encouraging the players who are committed to the sport and also making the sport more popular island wide.”
Dhammika Wijesundara, of Sri Lanka Squash said “We are thankful to Ritzbury for having faith in Sri Lanka Squash and supporting the youngsters with their firm commitment, which is a great encouragement for us. Ritzbury has always supported Junior squash. The younger players look forward to this national event and we are happy to see such a number of record entries.
“We have invested in building the games’ infrastructure in the last one year with the cooperation of International consultants. This Includes Level 2 Certification for Coaches by World Squash Federation (WSF) Coaching Director Major Maniam which was a tremendous success. Referee Clinique too was conducted by famous international referee Rod Simington to update the knowledge of local referees just a few months ago.”
The country had seen success and improvements in Squash with youngsters performing well in Thailand in January this year in the Junior team event and also a number of Junior players across all age groups reaching the top 16 at the Asian Individual Championships held in Macau, China in June. Sri Lanka can also be proud of an international success with a Sri Lanka Junior player winning the Japanese Junior open in the under 9 category in August in the individual event.
This time the Junior National tournament will feature girls and boys Under 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19. Novices events for Under 11 and 15 which will encourage newer entrants.
The tournament will conclude on the 16th October with the Finals of the Girls’ and Boy’s Under-19 matches scheduled at 5.00 pm followed by the awards ceremony for all age categories.
ThePapare.com will bring you match articles, results, photographs and videos from the 30th Junior National Squash Championship, so keep it logged!
Handing over the sponsorship: Form left Janaka Botheju (Public Relations Manager, Ritzbury), Wing Commander Erandha Geegange ( Tournament Secretary, Sri Lanka Squash ) Dhammika Wijesundara ( Executive Committee member , Sri Lanka Squash, Nilupul De Silva (Ritzbury General Manager- Marketing) Aruna Liyanapathirana (Ritzbury Brand Manager) , Panchamaya Rathnayake (Ritzbury Events and Promotions Manager),
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