[September 20 2010]
Olympian Thilini Jayasinghe regained her old form with a sparkling display to complete a grand double at the Central Province Open Badminton Championship at St Anthony’s College courts, Katugastota last night. Jayasinghe displaying excellent court craft with bemusing placings to fox former women’s National Champion of many years Chandrika de Silva and won the first set 21-19 then cruised to a 21-15 win in the second set.
She later won the mixed doubles title partnered by Hasitha Chanaka to beat Lasitha Menaka and Nadeesha Gayathri 21-16, 16-21 and 21-19 to complete the double. The men’s singles finals turned out to be a non-starter as No 1 seeded Diluka Karunaratne conceded a walk over to No 2 seeded Lasitha Menaka due to a leg injury. Lasitha Chanaka also completed the double by winning the men’s singles and men’s doubles partnered by Manjula Fernando beat H S Perera and A C Fernando 16-21, 21-13 and 21-13.