Britton sets sights on Caribbean glory following national championship win

Shemar Britton on Sunday evening claimed his first-ever Senior National Table Tennis Championship in the men’s singles after playing unbeaten in the competition. And already, the ace with the racquet in hand is looking at conquering another mountain.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA)-organised tournament took a round-robin format for the men’s singles’ title, in which Britton played unbeaten, returning scores of 3-1, 3-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-1, 3-0 and 3-1 for 14 points overall.
Elishaba Johnson was a close second with scores of 3-1, 3-1, 0-3, 3-1, 3-1, 3-0 and 3-2 for 13 points. Capping off the top three was multi-discipline talent Jonathan Van Lange with returns of 3-0, 1-3, 0-3, 3-1, 3-1, 3-0 and 3-0 for 12 points.
Speaking exclusively with Guyana Times Sport following his win, Britton relished his first national singles title.
He expressed, “It feels amazing, I can finally sit with the greats of Guyana’s table tennis. It’s been a monkey on my back, going back quite some years. I got three consecutive seconds, so, to finally climb the top of the mountain feels great.”
Adding the singles title to the mixed doubles and men’s doubles titles that he claimed on Saturday, Britton divulged to this publication, a little bit about the work he has been putting in recently.
“Let me take you back to a quote my coach gives me, ‘train hard, so you could make it look easy’. That’s what I did, I put in a lot of work, I finished law school this year, so for the last six months I got time to actually train and focus again on my table tennis and it shows today,” Britton disclosed.
With the local title in the bag, Britton now has his eyes set on a much bigger target.
He confidently declared, “As I said earlier, the Caribbean Table Tennis Men’s championship hasn’t been in Guyana since 1992, I plan on bringing that title back.”