Second seed Luca Knese from Germany and fifth seed Thehan Wijemanne advanced to the boys' under 18 singles final after convincing victories in the semis at the 104th National Tennis Championship continued at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) hard courts yesterday.
Luca comfortably defeated third seed Kavicha Ratnayaka 6/1, 6/0 in the semis while Thehan Wijemanne created a major upset by defeating top seed Chathurya Nilaweera as the latter retired in the first set conceding victory to Thehan, 6/2 rtd. in the other semifinal. Earlier Thehan beat Sean Sanderson 6/2, 6/1 and Luca edged out P. Jasinghe 6/3, 6/0 in quarterfinal battles.
The men's doubles final between Sharmal Dissanayake/Rukmal Cooray and Abdulla Faaih/Liu-Hui Retallick will be played at 8.00 a.m. today at the SLTA courts.
Sharmal and Rukmal beat Sanka Atukorale and Yasith de Silva and Abdulla and Liu-Hui had the better of Dhilvan Herath and Archana Lokuge in the semi-final clashes.
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