Ari­ma Hawks (women) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) led by na­tion­al cham­pi­ons, 14-year-old Brit­tany Joseph and Cur­tis Humphreys will both be con­fi­dent of re­peat­ing as cham­pi­ons when the So­lo-spon­sored Na­tion­al Ta­ble-Ten­nis Cham­pi­onship Team Cham­pi­onships serve off to­day.First serve will be at the Cen­tral Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na, Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas, from 9.30 am with the women's and open sec­ond di­vi­sion fol­lowed by the men's and open para sin­gles two hours lat­er.

Joseph, who claimed her first-ever na­tion­al se­nior sin­gles crown last year will team up with fel­low se­nior na­tion­al women's team play­er, Lin­da Par­tap-Bood­han and Na­tal­ie Montes for Ari­ma who will face stiff com­pe­ti­tion from UTT, led by nine-time na­tion­al cham­pi­on, Aleena Ed­wards and her sis­ter, As­tra Ed­wards-Ben­nett.The men's field is much more in­ter­est­ing with UTT hav­ing to con­tend with Hawks, So­lo Cru­saders, D'Abadie Youths, So­lo Cru­saders and Care­nage Blasters.In ad­di­tion to Humphreys, the UTT squad, which de­feat­ed Hawks 3-2 in last year's ti­tle match and cur­rent­ly leads the Na­tion­al First Di­vi­sion League ta­ble with five straight wins, in­cludes his broth­er, Alar­ic Humphreys, Ken­win Small, Kyle Bor­neo and Kyle Ben­nett.

For Hawks, which will be rep­re­sent­ed by two teams, the quar­tet of five-time na­tion­al sin­gles cham­pi­on and cur­rent T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Reeza Burke, Li­onel Darceuil and teenag­er Arun Roop­nar­ine, just back from a re­cent month-long train­ing stint in Eu­rope, will com­prise it's A-team while Dave Williams, Mark Mod­este, Garfield Gay, Ker­ron Ali and Key­on Williams make up the B-team.Cru­saders will pin its ti­tle hopes on the shoul­ders of for­mer na­tion­al cham­pi­on, An­tho­ny "Sand­fly" Brown, US-based Dayanand Ma­haraj, Ter­ry Corbin, An­drew Alexan­der and Collin Cud­joe while for­mer UTT play­er and mem­ber of last year's win­ning team, US-based Yu­vraj Dookram, teams up with Michael Nan­ton, Ever­ton Sorzano, De­clan John and Haadiy Brook­er in the D'Abadie squad.

Aaron Wil­son leads Blasters ti­tle-bid and will be sup­port­ed by Nigel Mor­gan, Khadeem Moore, Rakel­lon Pierre and Michael Noel while Ox­ford is the oth­er en­tered team and will fea­ture Sel­wyn Singh, Kirk Mo­hammed and An­tho­ny Laquis.To­mor­row, the dou­bles event will com­mence with the Humphreys broth­ers de­fend­ing their men's ti­tle, and Joseph and Par­tap-Bood­han, the women while Cur­tis Humphreys and Aleena Ed­wards are the de­fend­ing mixed dou­bles cham­pi­ons.