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Yasitha, Sankha win men’s doubles title
GSTC Successfully conducts mega prize money tournament
The Government Servants’ Tennis Club, popularly known as GSTC, successfully completed a mega prize money ranking tournament, while strictly following all Covid 19 protocols. The GSTC Prestige prize money all island doubles tournament witnessed 29 pairs battling out in the men’s category.
The prize money was the biggest ever in the history of Sri Lankan Tennis for a doubles tournament. The men’s as well as the women’s doubles champions were given an attractive cash prize of Rs 100,000.00 each while the runners up pairs in both categories got Rs 50,000.00 each. They were also awarded trophies and a gift pack from YETI.
GSTC has three regularly maintained clay courts and has recently floodlit all the courts too. Government Servants’ Tennis Club is nearly a century old tennis club and attracts juniors, veterans and the budding youngsters too into its membership fold.
The results of the men’s doubles:
Men’s Doubles Final:
Yasitha de Silva and Sankha Atukorale beat Savit Weerasinghe and Archana Lokuge.