The boy’s under 18 singles final between Nishangan Nadarajah and Avishka Perera was played yesterday. Nadarajah who has been in prime form throughout the course of the tournament proved to be unstoppable on the day as he marched forward to a relatively simple victory.
Nadarajah’s consistency proved to be too much for Avishka whose game is based on brute force and power play. It wasn’t Avishkas day as he kept going for his shots and missing, resulting in the Peterite being able to capitalize on the unforced errors committed by his opponent in order to cruise to a straight set victory with a 6-2 6-2 score line.
Nadarajah is also featuring in the under 18 doubles event and will be a strong favorite to win a double (singles and doubles titles) at this year’s tournament which is guaranteed to be an unwritten statement of his domination of the game of Tennis at a junior level.
Other events
Boys under 16 singles
The semi final stages of the boys under 16 singles event was worked off yesterday. The first semi final between the top seed Pravin Steele and Savit Weerasinghe produced a huge upset as the unseeded Weerasinghe crushed the dreams of the favorite with a 6-0 7-6(2) victory.
The second semi final staged an epic battle between Joshua Jayaratne and Andrew Muttiah. Jayaratne who is known for being a player who never says die, lived up to his reputation as he fought his way back from being one set down to score a hard fought three set victory. The final score was 6-7(7) 6-4 6-4.
The finals of the event are scheduled to take place within the course of the day.
Along with the above mentioned final the schedule for today is jam packed with pre quarterfinal action from many of the age groups including the girls under 10 singles, girls under 16 singles and the boys under 10 singles.
