EPSI Computers sponsor Davis Cup Team for Rs. 2.5 million

by Lal Gunasekera

TENNIS: A tidy sum of Rs. 2.5 million as sponsorship was handed over by EPSI Computers (Pvt) Limited to the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) on Wednesday night at the Cinnamon Grand to be utilised for Sri Lanka's participation at the Davis Cup (Asia/Oceania Zone Group III) to be staged in Tehran, Iran from April 7 to 13.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EPSI Computers, Niranjan Canagoy, speaking on the occasion, said that his firm's sponsorship package was to actively promote tennis in the country, boost the sport and help built its image of Sri Lanka.

He said that he felt it was social responsibility and that Sri Lanka should produce the desired results in Tehran and wished both the SLTA and the Sri Lanka team his establishment's best wishes.

Canagoy further said that tennis needed more commitment from commercial establishment through sponsorships of this nature and called upon others to come forward in supporting and encouraging tennis in Sri Lanka. He said that his firm was founded in 1992 and has rapidly grown in the Sri Lankan IT industry. It will be recalled that CBN/SAT, ad EPSI Computers were known at the beginning, sponsored the Sri Lanka Davis Cup team in 2006.

The president of the SLTA, Janaka Bogollagama, thanked EPSI Computers profusely for their generous sponsorship package, and he stressed the need to take the sport to all parts of the country where in the past 15 to 20 years the players from the outstations have depleted.

He said "We must increase the numbers playing the game and with the help of EPSI could achieve it, though the SLTA does not get much help from the State sector."