Lochana de Silva and Achini Ratnasiri are on top in the men’s and women’s singles seedings at the latest ranking which was issued by the Sri Lanka Badminton(SLB) for their forthcoming tournaments which will commence after the lock down period but re scheduled dates are not finalised yet.
According to a senior official of the SLB they consider the period of August 2019 to February 2020 to make their latest rankings.
The six ranking tournament results of North Central Province Tournament(20-25 August 2019)State Services tournament (October 14-18), SSC tournament (November 13 to 22), National Championships (January 13-18), Uva Province Tournament (January 31 to February 5)Western Province Tournament (February 24 to March 1 )were considered to make the rankings.
SLB are planning to consider this latest ranking for their next tournaments .
Lochana de Silva participated in five tournaments out of six and emerged champions in two tournaments while he was able to reach semi finals in two tournaments and he reached the quarter final in one tournament to obtain highest points of 290 to come on top at the men’s singles ranking list.
Meanwhile former National champion Achini Ratnasiri has collected 300 points to finish on top in the women’s singles rankings. She participated in four tournaments and was able to emerge champion in two tournaments while she was able to end up as runners up at the other two tournaments . However she was unable to take part at the last two tournaments.
Former National champion Chandrika de Silva who won the Uva Province tournament also reached the fifth place at the women's singles . The veteran of the women’s ranking list has obtained 180 points . Meanwhile Lahiru Weerasinghe and Chiran Sudeera are on top in the men’s double ranking with 270 points while the experienced women’s double pair Achini Ratnasiri and Upuli Samanthika came on top of the women’s doubles with 340 points . Hasitha Chanaka and Upuli Samanthika were placed first in the mixed doubles ranking with 240 points .
However National shuttlers Niluka Karunaratne, Buwaneka Gunathilleka, Sachin Dias, Thilini Hendahewa and Kavidi Sirimannage were not at the singles top ranking list as they were unable to take part in most of the
tournaments as they were taking part in International tournaments and also due to injuries . Dinuka Karunaratne the current National champion was placed fifth at the men’s ranking with 140 points and he also missed a few tournaments due to International commitments.
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