Guyana’s girls dominate day 2

Inter Guiana Games Tennis…

By Delvon McEwan in Cayenne, French Guiana

With some courageous performances throughout the day’s competition the Guyana female players for a second successive day dominated the Girls’ singles and doubles as Guyana remain in contention for an inaugural Tennis Inter Guiana Games (IGG) title.
On the second day at the League Centre in the capital of French Guiana, Cayenne, the Guyanese girls won eight matches in the singles and doubles categories. Surprisingly only Afruica Gentle fell short but it was a valiant effort by the teenage prodigy.

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The magnificent six as they are being dubbed-Guyana girls’ after dominating day two of the Tennis IGG (Photo courtesy Neketa Forde or Youth Media Guyana)

In the singles the girls won five of their single matches against the host nation while in the doubles they clean sweep in the three categories.
Fierce competition from the girls put Guyana ahead on the first morning as they raced to a 3-2 lead by noon.
Wins from Kalyca Fraser, Sarah Klautky and the spectacular Nicola Ramdyhan placed Guyana at the top of the points standing at that period.
The girls were very severe on their opponents as they won convincingly in their three morning matches. Ramdyhan defeated her French opponent 6-0 in two sets as she left no room for errors. Her performance should receive a perfect rating from coach Shely Ramdyhan and her other coaching staffs.
At that time Vadeanand Resaullost his boys under 12 match while Jeremiah Kalekyezi also lost his match.
However, the French retaliated to win several matches and went on to win the day as the battle between the two sides intensified. In total the French won 10 of their 18 matches on the day. With the performance on the second day the French will begin the final day as tournament leaders.
Although the French clawed their way back to the latter part of the day, the under 18 girls doubles was Guyana strong point. Gentle and Ramdyhan showed no mercy as they walloped to a 6-1 6-2 victory. They outplayed their French counterparts in every aspect of their games.
The girls won eight of their nine matches on the day while unfortunately the boys lost all of their nine matches.
Guyana is still in contention to win the Games but the boys need a strong performance on the day to assist the girls.