Guyana’s Shemar Britton wins 2019 Trinbago Men’ Open Table Tennis title

Caribbean men’s singles and Under-21 men’s bronze medallist and Olympic prospect Shemar Britton won the 2019 edition of the Trinbago Open Men’s Singles table tennis championship.

The championship saw a large number of players enter and they all battled for supremacy when the action commenced on Saturday, October 5 and concluded the next evening at the National Racquet Centre, Orange Grove Road, Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago.
Britton, who is pursuing studies in the twin-island republic, defeated all of his opponents in the group stages to advance to the round of 64. In the round of 64, he defeated Wayne Oudit by a 3-0 scoreline to advance to the round of 32, where he made light work of Sean Michael in a 3-0 victory. In the round of 16, he defeated a game Abraham Francis by a 3-1 margin.
In his quarter-final match-up, Britton defeated former Caribbean junior silver medallist Luc O Young by a 3-0 scoreline to advance to the semi-finals, where he defeated the experienced and multiple Caribbean medallist Curtis Humphreys by a 3-1 margin to advance to the final against Arun Roopnarine. In the final, he was made to work for his title in a closely-contested encounter with a valiant and tactical Roopnarine, whom Britton defeated by a 3-2 margin to claim the title.
He now sets his sights on the WASA Table Tennis Club Invitational Team Table Tennis Championships as part of his preparation and push for key international engagements leading into the 2019- 2020 Olympic qualification events.