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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Edwards-Taylor, Britton top Tobago Open

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Nigel Simon
231 days ago
20241126

Queen's Park Ta­ble Ten­nis Club duo, Imani Ed­wards-Tay­lor, and Guyana's She­mar Brit­ton cap­tured the Women's and Men's Open ti­tles when the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion To­ba­go Open Tour­na­ment came off at the Shaw Park Com­plex, Scar­bor­ough on Sat­ur­day.

In the To­ba­go Women's Open, Ed­wards-Tay­lor se­cured the ti­tle fol­low­ing an 11-7, 11-9, 11-8 vic­to­ry over her club­mate Ji­nai Samuel.

Ear­li­er in the quar­ter­fi­nals, Ed­wards-Tay­lor brushed aside Ar­lene Joseph 11-0, 11-2, 11-6 and Samuel swept past De­r­ah Ra­moutar 11-3, 11-4, 11-5 while Thu­ra­ia Thomas de­feat­ed Jer­esse El­der 11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 11-7 and Eliz­a­beth Ra­jah stopped Yz­abelle Mor­ris 11-7, 14-12, 11-5.

In the semi­fi­nals, Ed­wards-Tay­lor bat­tled past Thomas 11-13, 8-11, 12-10, 11-7, 13-11 while Samuel ral­lied past Ra­jah 9-11, 15-13, 11-6, 11-6.

The men's de­cider was a straight­for­ward win for Brit­ton, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6 over club­mate Yu­vraaj Dookram. Brit­ton be­gan main-draw play with an 11-1, 11-1, 11-2 win over Daniel Bhim which he backed up by beat­ing Nico­las Lee 11-7, 11-9, 11-6; Aarun Roop­nar­ine and Cur­tis Humphreys in the semi­fi­nals, 11-4, 11-5, 11-8.

Humphreys, mean­while, de­feat­ed his broth­er Ed­win Humphreys 9-11, 11-4, 11-4, 11-7; Sekel Mc In­tosh 11-5, 11-8, 11-8 and Josi­ah Joseph 11-6, 11-8, 11-9.

On the oth­er side of the draw, Yu­vraaj Dookram reached the men's fi­nal af­ter he came from be­hind to win his semi­fi­nal 5-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-6 over Jesse Dook­ie of Care­nage Blasters.

When the main draw be­gan at the last-32 stage, Dookram beat Gabriel John, 11-4, 11-9, 11-7 fol­lowed by wins against Ab­hai Lal 11-2, 11-7, 11-6 in the last 16, and Nicholas O'Young 11-7, 11-6, 11-2 in the quar­ter­fi­nals while Dook­ie over­came Dave Ra­moutar 11-6, 11-7, 11-5; Kwame Lau­rence 11-4, 11-3, 11-4 and Jean-Marc Lee Fai 18-16, 11-7, 8-11, 11-7.

In the Girls' Un­der-19, Ed­wards-Tay­lor al­so came out on top with an 11-8, 11-9, 11-7 de­feat of Ji­nai Samuel in the fi­nal.

Ear­li­er in her semi­fi­nal match, Ed­wards-Tay­lor stopped Thomas 11-5, 3-11, 11-7 11-9 and Samuel, beat Nuyan­ka Pe­ters 11-0, 11-4, 11-8 in the quar­ter­fi­nal and then El­der 12-10, 11-7, 12-10 in her semi­fi­nal clash.

The Boys' U-19 fi­nal saw Josi­ah Joseph bat­tling past Nicholas O'Young 11-6, 11-7, 11-13, 11-4 for the ti­tle. Joseph won his quar­ter­fi­nal 11-4, 11-7, 13-11 over Jonathan Al­leyne and then got the bet­ter of Gabriel John 11-7, 11-3, 8-11, 11-9 in the semi­fi­nals while O'Young eased past Mc In­tosh 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 in his last-eight clash fol­lowed by an 11-2, 12-10, 11-5 win against Joshua Bhim in the semi­fi­nals.

Bhim won his quar­ter­fi­nal over Cameron Cud­joe 12-14, 11-5, 11-13, 11-5, 11-4 and John topped Ky­mani Hold­er 11-6, 13-11, 11-6.

Joseph al­so dom­i­nat­ed the Boys' U-15 com­pe­ti­tion and over­came Sekel Mc In­tosh 11-7, 11-5, 11-6 in the fi­nal.

Ear­li­er in the semi­fi­nals, Joseph out­last­ed Jonathan Cot­toy 9-11, 21-19, 6-11, 12-10, 11-4 and Mc In­tosh got past Joshua Bhim 11-6, 9-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-7. This was af­ter Joseph beat Ma­teo Mollineau 10-12, 11-5, 11-4, 5-11, 11-4 in the quar­ters and Mc In­tosh stopped Daniel Bhim 4-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-8.

Samuel had bet­ter for­tune in the Girls' U-15 age-group beat­ing Eliz­a­beth Ra­jah 11-9, 11-6, 11-9 for the crown.

In the semi­fi­nals, Samuel fought back to beat El­der 7-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-1, 14-12 and Ra­jah de­feat­ed Is­abel­la My­ers 11-6, 11-7, 11-7.

Ra­jah had ear­li­er lift­ed the U-13 ti­tle with vic­to­ries against Zuri Radge Coomar 11-6, 11-4, 11-5 and Is­abel­la My­ers 11-8, 11-4, 12-10 in their round-robin se­ries with Radge Coomar eas­ing past My­ers 11-6, 11-8, 11-4 in the oth­er match.

Radge Coomar topped the Girls' U-11 Round Robin se­ries with wins against Gabriel­la Bas­so 11-5, 11-6, 11-3; Ever­leigh Mc Ken­na 11-1, 11-3, 11-1 and Ki­maya Richard­son 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 to end with a per­fect record of 3-0 in the four-play­er se­ries while Mc Ken­na end­ed in the sec­ond spot with vic­to­ries over Bas­so 11-5, 6-11, 11-4, 11-6 and Richard­son 11-7, 11-5, 11-4 while Bas­so end­ed third af­ter beat­ing Richard­son 11-5, 11-9, 11-7.

Bas­so won the Girls' U-9 Sin­gles, beat­ing Mc Ken­na 11-4, 10-12, 11-9, 14-12 in the de­cider. This af­ter, Bas­so beat Kyzi­ah Dates 11-5, 11-4, 11-3 and Mc Ken­na oust­ed Richard­son 11-6, 11-5, 18-16 in their semi­fi­nals.

Za­y­den Sam­gram­s­ingh won the first of his two ti­tles in the Boys' U-11 af­ter wins against Yash Ma­haraj 11-4, 11-8, 13-11; Tris­tan Soomarie 11-8, 11-6, 11-6; Samir Radge Coomar 12-10, 11-6, 11-7 and Trent Sam­path 11-6, 11-8, 13-15, 11-4.

In the Boys' U-9 com­pe­ti­tion, which was con­test­ed via a three-play­er round-robin, Sagram­s­ingh beat Aaron Bram­ble 11-1, 11-1, 11-3 and Radge Coomar 11-9, 11-8, 11-9 for the ti­tle while Radge Coomar end­ed sec­ond af­ter he beat Bram­ble 11-0, 11-2, 11-2.

Daniel Bhim topped the Boys' U-13 Sin­gles via his 4-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-7 tri­umph over Mollineau. In the semi­fi­nals, Bhim brushed aside Jared Si­mon 11-6, 11-6, 11-6 and Mollineau si­lenced Tris­ton Soomarie 11-6, 11-6, 11-4.

In the 'To­ba­go On­ly' tour­na­ments, Lawrence Ince and Artie­nea Gre­goire were crowned cham­pi­ons beat­ing Je­lani Bram­ble and Monique Coop­er in their re­spec­tive ti­tle match­es.


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