University of Ruhuna Women's Table Tennis team emerged runner-up at the Inter University Table Tennis Championship which was held at University of Moratuwa rrecently. Ruhuna got defeated by Japura in the group matches in a nail biting finish 2-3 and Ruhuna paddlers came back stronger with a quarter final win over strong Sabaragamuwa TT team whom predicted to be in the finals before the tournament starts. Ruhuna easily beat Peradeniya by 3-1 in the semis and lost to Colombo in the finals.
This is the best result Ruhuna gained in this year's inter university championship after 17 sports events.
G. W. Jayantha, former national ranked player and the Team Leader of the Sri Lanka University team at the World University Table Tennis Championship in 2004 is the coach of University of Ruhuna well suppoted by Master in Charge for Table Tennis, Jayantha in reaching this milestone.
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