Day 3: Guyana’s women dominate, men continue to toil
61st Seniors Caribbean Table Tennis Championship…
By Timothy Jaikarran
The action continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue as the 61st Seniors Caribbean Table Tennis Championship entered its third day.
The competition served off with the men’s team battling it out for supremacy as Group One saw notable wins coming from Puerto Rico, who defeated Martinique 3-0. In Group Two, the Dominican Republic dominated St Lucia 3-0 and Barbados crushed St Vincent and the Grenadines by the same margin in Group Three.
Heading into the second round, Puerto Rico stunned Guadeloupe 3-0, then Guyana were set to take on the Dominican Republic who swept that round and remained unbeaten on Wednesday alongside Puerto Rico.
Part of the action in the women’s match-up against Jamaica
In Guyana’s match-up, the opening doubles pair of Joel Alleyne and Christopher Franklin were unable to defeat Emil Santos and Isaac Vila as they lost 11-8, 11-8 and 11-6. From there on, it was a stroll in the park for the Dominicans as they took a clean sweep of the other four singles matches in their round.
Barbados then defeated Jamaica 3-1 to end the second round.
After such a dominating round, the Guyanese team were set to duke it out with St Lucia in Round 3. The home team were able to ward off the St Lucians 3-1. The doubles pair of Franklin and Nigel Bryan dominated as they won 3-0 against Chris Wells and Adrian Albert. Despite losing a few matches in the singles category, the home team came out on top at the end.
In the other two match-ups of the third round, Martinique defeated Guadeloupe 3-1 and Jamaica stunned St Vincent and the Grenadines 3-0.
For the Guyanese women, it was complete domination as they set out to face Martinique in Round 1.
In the doubles match, Natalie Cummings and Daniela Fonseca played their three rounds with everything they had and they walked out victorious 11-7, 11-6, 11-5.
In the singles round, Trenace Lowe and Fonseca recorded notable wins in their singles matches. After winning round 1, Guyana moved on to round 2 where they won 3-0 against Barbados. Barbados looked shaky against Jamaica in round 1, but prevailed 3-2 before meeting the hosts.
On match days, the action will commence at 10:00h, and the competition is open to the public.
