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Apna, Zihar, Vishmi, Ruvi advance to Under 18 girls’ finals
Ananda College player Apna Perera will meet S. Thomas’ Mount Lavinia player Zaidh Zihar in the finals of the Under 18 boys’ singles, while Ave Maria Convent’s Vishmi Serasinghe encounters Gateway’s Ruvi Lewkebandara in the girls’ final of the same age category after they won their respective matches in the HNB Clay Court Championships continued at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association Courts on Thursday.
Perera, who ousted top seed Vichinthya Nilaweera in the quarter-final continued his impressive run beating Hesara Kuruppu 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-final played in the morning.
Zihar, who is the highest ranked Under 18 player to reach the final, knocked out Thilina Dissanayake in his semi-final. Zihar is the number four ranked player in the SLTA Under 18 rankings. Apna is ranked eighth in that list.
In the girls’ singles, the Ave Maria player overcame Arushi Thomas 6-1, 6-3 in the semis, while Lewkebandara beat Nishka Vivekanandan 6-0, 7-5.