The pairs of Jo­van Garib­ana and Con­nor Car­ring­ton, as well as Em-Miryam Camp­bell-Smith and Make­da Bain, will rep­re­sent T&T at the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF)/Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (JITIC) Un­der-14 Ten­nis Cham­pi­onships in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from June 23-30.

The tour­na­ment is sched­uled to take place at the Cen­tro Na­cional de Te­nis Aveni­da Boule­vard del Faro Par­que de Este, San­to Domin­go.

Garib­ana and Car­ring­ton pro­gressed from a group of six dur­ing the Tri­als at the week­end at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua. The oth­er mem­bers in that group are Ni­rav Dougdeen, Bri­an Har­richa­ran, Dar­ius Ra­haman and new­com­er Ja­cob Je­celon, all of whom were in­volved in a round-robin play-off.

Garib­ana played un­beat­en for the top spot, beat­ing Ra­haman 6-4, 6-4, Har­richa­ran 6-2, 6-4, Car­ring­ton 6-1, 6-1, Dougdeen 1-6, 7-6(4), 10-7 and Je­celon 6-2, 6-1.

Camp­bell-Smith, a top 15 play­er in the COTECC re­gion as well as the top lo­cal U-14 play­er for well over a year now, al­so fin­ished the tri­als with­out a blem­ish.

Against a com­pet­i­tive field that fea­tured Bain, her sis­ter Ab­ba Camp­bell-Smith, Madi­son Khan, Shiloh Walk­er and Nao­mi Mo­hammed, the daugh­ter of for­mer na­tion­al play­er Shenelle Mo­hammed, Camp­bell-Smith (Em-Miryam) left no pris­on­ers, as the say­ing goes.

She de­stroyed Walk­er 6-1, 6-2, her sis­ter Ab­ba 6-2, 6-2, Mo­hammed 6-0, 6-1, Bain 6-4, 6-4 and Khan 6-0, 6-0 to cruise to the top in the round-robin play-off.

Bain’s lone loss came at the hands of Camp­bell-Smith (Miryam) while Car­ring­ton suf­fered on­ly in his clash with Garib­ana, for an oth­er­wise clean sheet.

On­ly two spots each are avail­able for the boys and girls at the JITIC, how­ev­er, lo­cal of­fi­cials are try­ing to get more spots, said the tour­na­ment di­rec­tor An­tho­ny Je­re­mi­ah yes­ter­day.

“There are be­tween six to nine spots avail­able but a num­ber of fac­tors will de­ter­mine if we can have more play­ers in the tour­na­ment or not, one is the amount of coun­tries that want to com­pete, an­oth­er is our rank­ing,” Je­re­mi­ah ex­plained.