Buddhika Dikkumbura a top class table tennis player and coach-by Upananda Jayasundera Buddhika Rajitha Dikkumbura – Veteran Table Tennis coach. (pic. by Upananda Jayasundera-Kandy sports Spl.Corr Source:Dailynews 44 year old Buddhika Rajitha Dikkumbura, an old boy of Vidyartha College,Kandy is a leading Table Tennis coach in the country at present but he says that the children who are interested in the game are not in a position to continue with the practices at the moment as the parents are more interested in their studies than in sports. This is the situation in most areas in the country and the relevant authorities do not encourage them to improve TT among the children who are talented as it is essential to train them through-out the year to get them to be Champions in Table Tennis for them to participate at SAF games, Asian Games and Commonwealth games which is discouraging for the ...

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D.H. de Silva the veteran cricketer and coach-by Upananda Jayasundera D.H.de Silva Source:Dailynews D.H. de Silva, popularly known as DH is a Veteran Cricketer and Tennis coach who was attached to the Kandy Municipality as the Municipal Commissioner, and he started training the young boys and girls in the Kandy City in Tennis at his leisure times. In addition he was coaching Cricket too as Cricket and Tennis were his favourite sports and mostly it was the Under 12 Children and some of the promising youngsters in his Tennis team were Sangakkara Brothers, Veminda and Kumar and a few others. ...

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