Nigel Si­mon

The T&T pair of Aaron Wil­son and Arun Roop­nar­ine both end­ed in the cel­lar po­si­tion of their round-robin groups of the Ju­nior Boys Sin­gles at the Sco­tia­bank Cana­di­an Ju­nior and Cadet Open on Thurs­day night. Af­ter miss­ing out on qual­i­fy­ing for the Cadet Boys Sin­gles main draw on Wednes­day, Wil­son and Roop­nar­ine were ea­ger to re­bound in the Ju­niors at the Cana­di­an Chi­nese Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Cen­tre, Markham, Greater Toron­to, On­tario. How­ev­er, both play­ers failed to win any of their match­es.

Wil­son suf­fered de­feats to Cana­di­an duo Hong­tao Chen 5-11, 3-11, 5-11 and Je­re­my Hazin 8-11, 9-11, 8-11 for a 0-2 record in Pool B, while Roop­nar­ine went un­der to Chi­nese Taipei's Cheng Ting Liao 3-11, 4-11, 4-11; and Cana­di­ans An­toine Bernadet, 11-8, 11-7, 4-11, 10-12, 6-11, and Xue­bo Li, 7-11, 4-11, 7-11. On Wednes­day night both T&T play­ers missed out on qual­i­fy­ing for the main draw of the Cadet Boys Sin­gles. This, af­ter both play­ers fin­ished in third spot in their re­spec­tive four play­er groups from which the top two qual­i­fied.

Play­ing in Group B, Roop­nar­ine won his open­ing match against home town play­er James Yu 11-5, 11-8, 11-9 but then suf­fered loss­es in his next two, ver­sus USA's Howard Tong, 9-11, 4-11, 8-11 and group win­ner, Ko­re­an Jeong­won Oh 9-11, 9-11, 9-11 to fin­ish with four points, two be­hind Oh. Tong was sec­ond with five points af­ter on­ly los­ing to Oh and qual­i­fied for the main draw as well, while Yu end­ed bot­tom of the ta­ble with three points. In Group F, Wil­son al­so start­ed on a win­ning note, 11-7, 13-11, 13-11 over Cana­da's Matthew Lehmann and he fol­lowed it up with an­oth­er scin­til­lat­ing dis­play in beat­ing Ko­re­an Jeong Lee 11-9, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7.

Need­ing a win to se­cure top spot and qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the main draw in his fi­nal group match, Wil­son stum­bled, 6-11, 11-9, 10-12, 5-11 to Cana­di­an Alexan­der to leave both play­ers and Lee lev­el on five points apiece from three match­es, two wins and a loss each. To de­ter­mine the win­ner and run­ner-up from the groups, the re­sults against the cel­lar-placed play­er Lehmann was dis­card­ed in the cal­cu­la­tions for the three play­ers in the tie. Then the games for and against were cal­cu­lat­ed be­tween the three play­ers tied on­ly, how­ev­er there was still a tie be­tween the three play­ers. The next step used the points won to points loss ra­tio be­tween the trio (games won over games loss or points won over points loss).