Two sisters Tashiya and Tiana excel at Pan Am TT Championship-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Tiana youngest daughter (left) Thilina Piyadasa and eldest daughter Tashiya in action Source:Dailynews Two sisters Tashiya and Tiana Piyadasa once again came to the limelight at the recently concluded ITTF Pan Am Youth TT Championships in Cuenca, Ecuador to win eight medals for the USA junior TT team. The US Team took home a total of 41 medals, which included winning the Gold Medal in nine of the fourteen events held at this elite international tournament while Tashiya and Tiana the two daughters of former National TT Champion Thilina Piyadasa were leading the way with impressive performance. The performances of this Pan Am Youth TT Championship gave a real boost for two promising paddlers, 11-year-old Tashiya and 8-year-old Tiana and both of them followed their father’s footsteps. The US Girls U-13 and U-11 Teams did well, taking ...
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Former TT champion Thilina Piyadasa’s daughter doing her family proud-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Source:Dailynews Tashiya Piyadasa, daughter of former Sri Lanka national table tennis champion Thilina Piyadasa, stole the limelight by winning the Girls’ Under-11 Singles title at the US National Championships held in Las Vegas recently. “Winning the national title at any age category is a great achievement and this is her beginning,” said Piyasada, who is currently based in the US with his family. Tashiya is the eldest daughter of Thilina Piyadasa, the eight-time national champion and Rifkha Kameel, who is also a former national champion having led the Sri Lanka Women’s Team at the South Asian Table Tennis Championships in 1997. ...
