Edghill, Britton begin PanAm Table Tennis Cup quest today

Guyana’s table tennis aces Chelsea Edghill and Shemar Britton are poised to represent Guyana at the Prestigious 2025 Pan American Table Tennis Cup, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Continental Cup for the Americas this week, a missive from the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has disclosed.
Powered by JP Morgan, the competition gets into action today, Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at the 888 Table Tennis Center in Burlingame, a suburb of San Francisco, USA.

The event will have US$20,000 in prize money, the players will earn ITTF ranking points, and those that reach the semi-finals (in Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles) will be awarded entry into the ITTF Singles World Cup.
The electrifying tournament is said to be one of the most prestigious events in table tennis, uniting the top players from North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean to compete for glory, critical world ranking points, and a coveted spot in the 2025 ITTF World Cup in Macau, China.
The tournament will feature an elite line-up of athletes, including US Olympians Kanak Jha, Lily Zhang, and Amy Wang; Brazilian Olympian Bruna Takahashi; Ecuadorian Olympian Alberto Mino; and Canadian Olympian Edward Ly, as well as other top 30-ranked global stars.

Britton and Edghill are using these championships to commence their international quest as they look to gain valuable world ranking points to set them up for later success as they commence building towards a new Olympic quadrennial.
Britton is a multi-Caribbean medallist at the junior and senior level who has been showing his pedigree in defeating top-tiered players at the PanAm level.
Meanwhile, Edghill has done her preparation work training with the Cuba National team in Havana and will be competing against the likes of Isabella Xu, Hildy Chen, Natalie Dong and Irene Yeoh, all of the USA, in the preliminary round where she will gearing to assess where she currently is after receiving a clean bill of health after suffering several niggling injuries which had plagued her training and performance in 2023-2024.
Edghill arrived in San Franciso on Saturday last while Britton touched down on Sunday.
Heart-pounding rallies, nail-biting matches, and inspiring performances will be the order of the finest talent in the Americas as they battle for supremacy and etch their names in history.