Top ju­nior play­er Aiden Carter and Jerome Ward had win­ning per­for­mances on the open­ing day of the Davis Cup Tri­al at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

With three spots and two re­serve places avail­able to rep­re­sent T&T at next year's Davis Cup tour­na­ment, Carter, whose con­sis­tent per­for­mances through­out the year is al­most cer­tain to earn him a place in the team, was off to a fly­er, whip­ping Ke­shan Moonasar in his first game on court three 6-3, 6-3.

And af­ter a pe­ri­od of ap­pro­pri­ate rest, Carter, the 2016 COTECC champ and Un­der- 18 Co­ca-Co­la In­ter­na­tion­al Dou­bles cham­pi­on, re­turned to the court to de­stroy his main ri­val Adam Ramkissoon in straight sets 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. But with the tri­als sched­uled to run for three days, Carter is set to re­turn to the courts again to­day to prove his worth along with some 11 oth­ers.

Ward opened on court two against Richard Chung and pre­vailed af­ter a gut­sy bat­tle 7-6(4), 7-3 in his first game. How­ev­er, he was made to come from be­hind in the sec­ond game with Scott Hack­shaw, af­ter the lat­ter whipped him 6-2 to sig­nal his in­ten­tions of be­ing among the five play­ers to wear the red, white and black for T&T at the Davis Cup.

Ward, how­ev­er, stormed back to clob­ber his op­po­nent in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 to for the win. In oth­er match­es yes­ter­day Ak­ile Duke dis­posed of Nkrumah Patrick 6-1, 6-3 while Nabeel Mo­hammed, the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Un­der-21 cham­pi­on went down to Dex­ter Ma­hase in two sets 6-3, 6-2.

Mean­while, tri­als for the Fed Cup tour­na­ment for Women will al­so be­gin in earnest at the same Tacarigua fa­cil­i­ty from 9 am and it would com­prise some of the top play­ers such as Anya King, Yin Lee As­sang, Abi­gail Jones, Vic­to­ria Koy­lass and Soizette Sim­mons, all con­test­ing a round-robin play­off.

From this, the top play­er will be pro­vi­sion­al­ly se­lect­ed along with a re­serve play­er.