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Monday, June 23, 2025

Bain clinches Lease Operators u-14, 16 tennis crowns

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Walter Alibey
15 days ago
20250609
FILE - Makeda Bain

FILE - Makeda Bain

Make­da Bain claimed two ti­tles on day three of the Lease Op­er­a­tors Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua on Sun­day.

Bain, ar­guably one of the most tal­ent­ed ju­nior tal­ents on lo­cal shores hav­ing won two ti­tles at the COTECC Ju­nior Trin­i­ty Cup Un­der-14 tour­na­ment ear­li­er this year, was in omi­nous form yes­ter­day as she clinched the Girls' 14 and Un­der crown, cour­tesy of an al­most flaw­less 6-1 6-1 tri­umph over third-seed Cher­dine Sylvester in the fi­nal.

Lat­er, the top-seed­ed Bain se­cured her sec­ond sil­ver­ware of the tour­na­ment when she de­feat­ed Madi­son Khan, the sec­ond-seed­ed play­er, in the fi­nal 6-1, 6-2 in the fi­nal of the 16 and Un­der di­vi­sion.

On­ly ear­li­er, Bain made her in­ten­tions of a dou­ble crown clear by dis­pos­ing of Cyra Ram­cha­ran 6-0, 6-2 in the round of four (semi­fi­nals), which pro­pelled her to the ti­tle match.

The vic­to­ries con­tin­ued an up­ward trend for the To­bag­on­ian, hav­ing been se­lect­ed by the Grand Slam Play­er De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme and the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion to rep­re­sent the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca & Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC) re­gion in Feb­ru­ary. At that time, Bain was ranked sec­ond in the COTECC re­gion.

She is now in line for a third crown, hav­ing teamed up with Madi­son Khan to dis­pose of the pair of Cyra Ram­cha­ran and Suri Ram­cha­ran in the semi­fi­nals 6-0, 6-0 yes­ter­day in the Se­nior Girls Dou­bles. They were sched­uled to face the com­bi­na­tion of Karis­sa and Lil­ly Mo­hammed in the fi­nal yes­ter­day.

Bain's tri­umph in the 14 and Un­der di­vi­sion was fol­lowed by Christo­pher Khan, who clinched the boys' equiv­a­lent (boys 14 & Un­der crown). It came af­ter he brushed aside Ja­cob Jacelon 6-1, 6-2, while last year's triple crown win­ner at the RBC Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment, Josi­ah Hills, cruised past Jacelon 6-2, 6-0. Co­in­ci­den­tal­ly, it was the fifth-ranked Jacelon's sec­ond straight loss in a fi­nal on the day.

Mean­while, Keyah Roberts com­plet­ed an al­most flaw­less dis­play 4-0 4-0 to clinch the girls' 16 and Un­der Con­so­la­tion crown at the hands of Ja­dia High­ly.


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