SSC Open Ranking Tennis
Number two ranked Methvan Wijemanne overcame a set defeat to beat Tharuk Marasinghe in a all-Royal final to win the Under-14 boys singles title of the SSC Open Ranking Tennis tournament in Colombo on Sunday.
Wijemanne scored 2-6, 6-2, 10-4 in the final to beat the third seed. While Wieemanne beat number five seed Sandas Usgodaraachchi in the semis, Marasinghe eliminated top ranked player Lisal Goonetilleke in a Royal-Thomian clash.
In the men’s doubles final Yasitha de Silva and Sankha Atukorale beat Thangaraja Dineshkanthan and Gayanga Weerasekara 6-3, 6-4.
Meanwhile, the semi finalists were found in the Under-18 boys’ and girls’ singles yesterday.
Monday, 8 March 2021, 9:14 am
Te Marae o Hine Palmerston North’s Square will ring to
the sound of chainsaws and wood chopping, alongside many
other farm animal noises, from sheep and horses to miniature
ponies and working sheepdogs, for three days from
Friday.
The
Ford Ranger New Zealand Rural Games is back and this
time there is a heavy focus on youth to lift interest in the
booming rural economy and rural sports.
Rural Games
founder Steve Hollander said we’ve introduced several new
initiatives like the Westpac Agri Futures careers day and
expanded youth-related championships.
“We hope to
nurture the next generation of rural sporting athletes and
Stuff Sports
3 February, 2021, 1:48 pm
Francesca Kirwan is all concentration at the NZ Beach Tour stop in Ruakaka last summer. Picture: REUTERS.
After a tough year, Francesca Kirwan has won her third New Zealand beach volleyball title in five years. She tells Ashley Stanley how she manages sport and her wine business with dad, Sir John Kirwan.
At 3am every Monday, Francesca Kirwan and her family wake up to watch her brother Niko play football on the other side of the world. There’s her mum Fiorella and dad Sir John Kirwan, younger brother Luca and her new fiancé, also named Luca.
Francesca Kirwan is all concentration at the NZ Beach Tour stop in Ruakaka last summer.
After a tough year, Francesca Kirwan has won her third New Zealand beach volleyball title in five years. She tells Ashley Stanley how she manages sport and her wine business with dad, Sir John Kirwan. At 3am every Monday, Francesca Kirwan and her family wake up to watch her brother Niko play football on the other side of the world. There s her mum Fiorella and dad Sir John Kirwan, younger brother Luca and her new fiancé, also named Luca. “Because he plays at three on a Sunday afternoon in Italy, we all wake up. That’s why he better appreciate it because it’s bloody hard work,” laughs Kirwan, who s no stranger to making sacrifices in the name of sport.
Home is where the heartland is
30 Dec, 2020 12:02 PM
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Operating for thirty years, Franz Josef Glacier Guides allows visitors to access remote terrain that would normally only be accessible to experience mountaineers.
Photo / Ngāi Tahu Tourism
In four decades as a travel writer and several more years as a living, breathing, wandering Kiwi, I’ve seen just about every square inch of Aotearoa. But it’s only in the past few months I’ve encountered two special places for the first time. By Ewan McDonald
They re at either end of the country – the impossibly beautiful white-sand beaches of Karikari Peninsula and the impossibly beautiful deep-green waters, forests and mountains of Te Wahi Pounamou, our World Heritage Area in the Deep South.