Sri Lanka, July 12 -- The Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) has appealed to the Sports Ministry to provide it with practice facilities which has forced them to go begging most of the time seeking venues.

"Even to prepare the team for the last South Asian Games our selection trials were held at the Mercantile Badminton Gymnasium," said TTSL secretary Chandana Wijetunga.

"Most of the time we have to depend on playing our tournaments at the S.Thomas' Gymnasium Mount Lavinia and we have to pay for that."

Wijetunga said all players as individuals find their own means of practice with their respective coaches which he said was not the right way to prepare players for international competition.

"All what we want is for all the pl...