To­day is the feast of Cor­pus Christi so al­low me to wish the Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty a hap­py and holy cel­e­bra­tion. Many of you are well aware of my love for ten­nis and I try my best, es­pe­cial­ly when the re­spec­tive Grand Slams are on, to sit in front of the tele­vi­sion to watch some ab­sorb­ing ten­nis from some of the world’s great­est tal­ents. A few years ago, I saw this young, half-Japan­ese half-Hait­ian girl look­ing like a lit­tle pa­per doll play­ing in the Aus­tralian Open and for a fly­weight, she was hit­ting the ball like a heavy­weight and I im­me­di­ate­ly took a note of the name - Nao­mi Os­a­ka. It was un­be­liev­able how hard this lit­tle girl was strik­ing the ten­nis ball.

Dis­cus­sions to treat with the pos­si­ble over-lap­ping by goal­keep­er coach Kelvin Jack with dif­fer­ent na­tion­al teams, will be­gin when a joint press con­fer­ence of the Uni­fied Foot­ball Coach­es of T&T (UFCTT) and the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee is held some­time soon.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – High-Per­for­mance man­ag­er Graeme West has praised the strength of the Emerg­ing Play­er pro­gramme af­ter 12 play­ers were signed by fran­chis­es for this year’s Caribbean Pre­mier League.

Lo­cal track ath­letes con­tin­ue their rigid sched­ule over the week­end in the Unit­ed States as they con­tin­ue to try and meet the stan­dards in their re­spec­tive events for the up­com­ing Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan from Ju­ly 23 -Au­gust 8.

Twen­ty-Five-year-old T&T ap­pren­tice jock­ey Lenny Seecha­ran who won the Hast­ings Race Course – Cham­pi­on Ap­pren­tice Ti­tle in 2019 and 2020, is back in the lime­light. Lenny Seecha­ran who rode 18 win­ners to be­come the cham­pi­on, land­ed his first win­ners of the 2021 sea­son at Hast­ings Race­course on Wednes­day.

T&T swim­mer, Dy­lan Carter had to set­tle for the sixth spot in the men’s 100 me­tres freestyle A-fi­nal on the sec­ond and fi­nal day of the sec­ond stop of the 2021 Mare Nos­trum Long Course Meet at the Cen­tre de Nata­tion Ar­lette Fran­co, Canet-en-Rous­sil­lon, France, on Wednes­day.

GROS ISLET – Left-hand­ed open­er Kier­an Pow­ell put him­self in the se­lec­tion mix for the South African se­ries when he nar­row­ly missed out on a hun­dred on day three of the four-day West In­dies in­ter-squad match in St Lu­cia on Wednes­day.

The T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) af­ter meet­ings with all stake­hold­ers have made the dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion to with­draw from the Fi­nals of the Tokyo Olympics Beach Vol­ley­ball Qual­i­fi­ca­tion process.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia – South Africa touched down on Tues­day for the two-Test se­ries against West In­dies start­ing next week, mark­ing on­ly the sec­ond in­ter­na­tion­al se­ries in the Caribbean since the on­set of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter Toko Olympics prepa­ra­tions con­tin­ued when he placed fourth in the men’s 100m but­ter­fly A-fi­nal on the open­ing day of the sec­ond stop of the 2021 Mare Nos­trum Long Course Meet at the Cen­tre de Nata­tion Ar­lette Fran­co, Canet-en-Rous­sil­lon, France, yes­ter­day.

GROS ISLET – Test out­cast Shai Hope pressed his case for a re­call with an at­tack­ing half-cen­tu­ry while Jer­maine Black­wood struck a typ­i­cal­ly breezy fifty, but bowlers dom­i­nat­ed as 14 wick­ets tum­bled on the open­ing day of the four-day prac­tice match in St Lu­cia on Mon­day.

T&T goal­keep­er Adri­an Fon­cette is warn­ing that his team must not take the Ba­hamas for grant­ed, as they go af­ter six points from two match­es over the com­ing week and a half in the FI­FA/CON­CA­CAF World Cup Qual­i­fiers.