Shemar Britton to participate in ITTF Ecuador Open today

Shemar Britton, a former Caribbean Under-21 and men’s singles champion, 2019 Caribbean championships men’s singles bronze medallist and Guyana Under-21 and men’s singles silver medallist will be competing in the Ecuador Open.
The Ecuador Open is part of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Contender Series.
Britton, one of Guyana’s most talented players, will be flying the Golden Arrowhead in the event scheduled for November 2-6, 2021 at the Totoracocha Sports Complex, Avenida los Andes and Avenida del Condor Cuenca, Ecuador.
The preliminary rounds of the men’s singles aspect of the competition commence today at 10:45h.

2021 ITTF Ecuador Open playing system structure
* There will be seven individual events – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.
* All the events will be played main draw (knockout) and first stage (singles – round-robin, doubles – knockout).
* The matches of men’s singles and women’s singles will be best of 7 games.
* Men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles will be best of 5 games.
* The number of seeded players and main draw is defined according to the number of entries, at the final entry’s deadline, as follows:
* The ranking list which will be used for seeding and for the draws shall be the ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking to be published on September 28, 2021 (week 39).
The tournament will be a compact one with over 24 male participants, featuring players from Belgium, India, Peru, Puerto Rico, Austria and Mexico.
This offers a great opportunity for Britton to get great match practice and assess the level of his game after a more-than-18-month hiatus from competition owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A budding lawyer who attends the University of the West Indies, Britton is one of the strongest talents hailing from the English-speaking Caribbean. An Olympic solidarity scholarship holder and prospect, he has expressed his desire to qualify for the Paris 2023 Olympics and expressed his intention of ramping up his training and competition schedule in his quest to achieve this goal.