Chetan Anand of India and Sujitra Ekmongkopaisar of Thailand emerged men’s and women’s singles champions at the Sri Lanka Satellite Badminton Championships which ended at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium yesterday.

Anand, who is ranked 66 in the world, was the favourite to win the title. He proved his class by defeating Malaysian Yew Thein Law in two straight sets 15-10 and 15-4.

Two Thais met in the women’s final. Monthila Meemak, who boats of a world ranking of 33 was hot favourite to clinch the title. But her compatriot Sujitra Ekmongkopaisar registered an upset win to clinch the women’s title. Sujitra won 11-7, 11-2.

Two Sri Lankan pairs met in the mixed doubles final and experienced pair Thushara Edirisinghe and Chandrika de Silva won the title over Niluka Karunaratne and Thilini Jayasinghe. First set was won by Niluka, Thilini combination 15-11. Although they gained an early lead in the second set Thushara and Chandrika, the top seed pair fought back to win it 15-11. Thushara and Chandrika clinched the deciding set 15-12 to win the title.

In the men’s doubles final Thushara Edirisinghe and Duminda Jayakody went down to the top seed pair from Thailand, Nattapon Naktong and Siwath Koosakumthum 15-5, 15-7.

Women’s doubles final was won by bottom seed pair of B.R Meenakshi and Trupti Murugande from India beating Thailand’s top seed pair Monthila Meemak and Soratja Chasrisukot 15-9, 9-15, 15-6.