?NICHOLAS CLARKE

T&T's Davis Cup ten­nis team bounced back from an open­ing 2-1 de­feat to Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day, beat­ing the US Vir­gin Is­lands by the same mar­gin on Wednes­day in Group IV of the Amer­i­can Zone in Pana­ma City, Pana­ma. In the first game against USVI, Yohansey Williams fought to a tight 7-6(6), 7-6(4) loss to Bri­an Old­field though Joseph Cado­gan evened the score with a 7-6(6), 6-4 win over Kris­tepher Elien.

Liam Gomez and Da­woud Kabli then car­ried T&T home with a com­fort­able 6-4, 6-1 vic­to­ry over Old­field and Nicholas Bass. In their open­ing match up against the Ba­jans, Williams and Cado­gan lost their sin­gles match­es to An­tho­ny Mar­shall (6-2, 6-1) and Haydn Lewis (6-2, 6-1) re­spec­tive­ly but Gomez and Kabli man­aged to pull one back by beat­ing Ryan Mose­ly and Sean­non Williams 6-3, 6-4. T&T were set to face Hon­duras in the third of their four Round Robin match­es yes­ter­day evening.