WAL­TER AL­IBEY

Sis­ters Em-Miryam and Ab­ba Camp­bell-Smith, as well as the Mo­hammed sib­lings of Nao­mi and Lily, have ad­vanced to the main draw of the COTECC Un­der-14 Sum­mer Bowl Ten­nis Tour­na­ment, tak­ing place at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) on Or­ange Grove Road in Tacarigua.

The pairs are among eight girls to have earned qual­i­fy­ing berths from a round-robin play-off over the week­end, with six girls set to con­test the con­so­la­tion di­vi­sion. Among the boys, 12 will al­so con­test the main draw, with as many to com­pete in the con­so­la­tion di­vi­sion. The main draw starts on Mon­day at the NRC.

On the fi­nal day Sun­day, Ab­ba, who de­feat­ed the oth­er Mo­hammed sis­ter Karis­sa 4-0, 4-1 on Sat­ur­day got a walk-over vic­to­ry over An­neleise Orr to top her group, while her sis­ter Em Miryam warmed up for to­day's main draw start with con­vinc­ing 4-1, 4-0 tri­umph over Suri Ram­cha­ran.

Lily though had a painstak­ing 4-0, 4-0 win over her sis­ter Karis­sa on court sev­en. Nao­mi did not see ac­tion yes­ter­day but she con­firmed the top spot in her group with a con­fi­dence-boost­ing vic­to­ry over Em-Miryam.

Mean­while, Make­da Bain al­so joined the main draw with a sweat-less 4-1, 4-0 vic­to­ry over Tae­gan Yeates un­der the swel­ter­ing 9 am sun, along with third-seed­ed Shiloh Walk­er who pre­vailed over St Lui­cia's Jae­lyn Hen­ry 4-1, 5-3. Cyra Ram­cha­ran just missed out on a main draw place, de­spite pre­vail­ing over El­yse Fer­gu­son in straight sets 5-4(3), 4-2.

The girls' main draw in­cludes the Camp­bell-Smith and Mo­hammed sib­lings, as well as Bain, Walk­er, Hen­ry and Yeates while the con­so­la­tion draw will fea­ture Ram­cha­ran, Karis­sa Mo­hammed, Suri Ram­cha­ran, Anya Ro­many, Fer­gu­son and Orr.

Among the boys' main draw are Bar­ba­dos' Dim­itri Kirfton, Ni­rav Dougdeen, Bran­don Bridge­wa­ter of Cu­ra­cao, Dar­ius Ra­haman, Ma­teo Gutier­rez of El Sal­vador, Al­hil Cyril of St Lu­cia, Ja­van Garib­ana, Ja­cob Jacelon, Ethan Warn­er (Bar­ba­dos), Christo­pher Khan, Josi­ah Hills and Zane Kir­tion of Bar­ba­dos.

In ac­tion Sun­day, Kir­ton (Dim­itri) ben­e­fit­ted from a walk-over win of Jaiden Gor­mandy, while Hills clob­bered Bri­an Har­richa­ran in straight sets 4-0, 4-1 to seal his en­try in­to Mon­day's draw.

Fourth-seed­ed Dougdeen was al­so vic­to­ri­ous, dis­pos­ing of No­vak Mal­colm 4-0, 4-0, and Warn­er whipped Jack Brown 4-2, 4-0 on court five.