Sis­ters Em-Miryam Camp­bell-Smith and Ab­ba-Camp­bell-Smith are part of an in­ter­est­ing bit of his­to­ry in the world of ten­nis.

The sib­lings, Em-Miryam, who is the old­er of the two sis­ters at 13 years, and Ab­ba at 11, are the first pair of sis­ters to have made it in­to the top 15 play­ers in the North, Cen­tral Amer­i­can, and the Caribbean (COTECC) re­gion rank­ings.

The sport's world gov­ern­ing body, the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF), re­leased the COTECC Un­der-14 rank­ings re­cent­ly, putting Em-Miryam at fourth, while Ab­ba is joint 15th with com­pa­tri­ot Shiloh Walk­er.

Make­da Bain is the on­ly oth­er T&T play­er in the top 15 rank­ings at sixth.

Both have had fas­ci­nat­ing stints this year in the sport. Em-Miryam racked up the record for the most ti­tles for a T&T play­er in the re­gion this year and, at one time, was ranked num­ber one in the COTECC, a po­si­tion she held for about a year.

Em-Miryam, who al­so helped her school St Joseph's Con­vent to the girls' foot­ball ti­tle in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League, is al­so the youngest play­er to have won a se­nior tour­na­ment when she topped the East Club Clas­si­fied Tour­na­ment Di­vi­sion B last year.

Her sis­ter Ab­ba is a dou­ble-crown win­ner at the Catch Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ten­nis Cham­pi­onship host­ed by the Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (Ten­nisTT) at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre and she claimed the win for the RBC Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment girls' U-12 di­vi­sion sin­gles ti­tle by beat­ing Madi­son Khan in the fi­nal.

The achieve­ment of the sis­ters comes on the heels of their qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the fi­nal of the girls' sin­gles of the re­cent U-14 COTECC Sum­mer Bowl Tour­na­ment at the Tacarigua fa­cil­i­ty last month.

The sis­ters left T&T for Mi­a­mi on Sat­ur­day, en route to the COTECC ITF Mas­ters Ten­nis Tour­na­ment in Mex­i­co. On­ly Em-Miryam will play in the tour­na­ment.