Sri Lanka, Feb. 16 -- Dumindu Abeywickrama and Viren Nettasinghe stole the limelight yesterday when they beat Indian opponents to enter men's open pre quarter finals of the Li Ning Sri Lanka International Badminton series tournament played at Dadalla Indoor stadium in Galle yesterday.Sri Lanka Badminton organised this tournament.

In fact the two Sri Lankan youngsters have shown good fighting spirit to enter pre quarters which will be played today.

Dumindu Abeywickrama the Royalist had a hard fought three setter game 21-18,16-21,21-17 to beat Manraj Singh while Viren Nettasinghe the former St Peters shuttler who is top seed of this tournament also had a three setter 17-21,21-14,23-21 to beat Saneeth Dayanand to enter pre quarters.

Meanwhi...