The senior national team which represented Guyana at the Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in the Dominican Republic earlier this month and secured a bronze medal, is under the radar of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) since the Association is seeking to invest in the players due to the possibility of them representing the country at Olympic Games.
President of the GTTA Godfrey Munroe made this disclosure stating, “The team got a bronze medal in and I think they acquitted themselves quite well in the championship.”
Members of the National Men’s team: Shemar Britton, Nigel Bryan, Elishaba Johnson, Kyle Edghill and Coach Linden Johnson along with Godfrey Munroe
He added “the association is quite pleased by the performance because this a junior team in a senior championship and if the calibre of the teams that they play , the results that they got showed that we are on a good path and we will be looking forward to invest in them as possible candidates for Olympic games.”
The team comprised of National men’s champion Nigel Bryan, National 21 years and under Champion and Caribbean Junior Bronze medallist Shemar Britton, National Junior Champion Kyle Edghill and Elishaba Johnson.
Britton finished highest in the Men’s category by virtue of reaching the quarter-finals while Nigel Bryan finished in the round of 16. In the 21 years and under Edghill and Johnson lost in the quarter-finals.
Their performance was commendable for such a young unit, considering high calibre players were missing such as Chelsea Edghill Caribbean 21 years silver medallist due to her scholastic commitments, Trenace Lowe Caribbean Team Silver medallist and women’s doubles gold medallist in addition to Natalie Cummings who is currently in Brazil training on a scholarship engagement.
GTTA head further stated that “We are quite enthused we did not get to send a full complement of teams, I think our girls might have been better medal prospects but this was a developmental meet for us”.
The other absent senior seasoned players were national Men’s Champion Christopher Franklin, Mathew Khan who has a high ranking in the USA and has indicated his availability to the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) to possibly represent Guyana; Edinho Lewis among other players and based on resource availability.
The other countries which participated in the event were Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica host Dominica Republic, Puerto Rico Curacao and St Lucia.
