T&T's Chloe Fras­er just missed out on a place in the fi­nal of the Women’s Sin­gles at the Caribbean re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (CRT­TF) Se­nior Cham­pi­onships at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Gym­na­si­um in Wildey, St Michael Sun­day (June 22).

The T&T tal­ent seemed well on her way to the ti­tle match af­ter de­liv­er­ing a top-class dis­play to de­feat Cu­ba’s Olympian Daniela Fon­se­ca 4-2 in a quar­ter­fi­nal con­test.

She got the per­fect start in match one of the quar­ter­fi­nals, hold­ing off Fon­se­ca 12-10. Now con­fi­dent, she rushed to a 2-0 ad­van­tage in the con­test be­fore Fon­se­ca dis­rupt­ed her free flow with a 15-13 tri­umph in the third set, cut­ting her lead in half 2-1.

But the France-based Fras­er, who re­peat­ed as the win­ner of the Women's Open of the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Su­per Sin­gles, jumped fur­ther ahead in the fluc­tu­at­ing af­fair 3-1 by beat­ing her coun­ter­part in the fourth set 11-9. And a sec­ond time, Fon­se­ca stormed back by nar­row­ing the score­line to 3-2 with a 12-10 set win.

Fras­er then sealed the over­all win four games to two (4-2) and con­firmed her en­try in­to the round of four semi­fi­nals by beat­ing Fon­se­ca 11-9 in the sixth set.

How­ev­er, it in­creased the stakes and com­pe­ti­tion of the tour­na­ment, putting her in line with Alon­dra Ro­driguez of Puer­to Ri­co. The match went sev­en sets be­fore Fras­er sur­ren­dered 3-4 (7-11, 11-6, 9-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-7, 9-11) to just miss a berth in the fi­nal.

Fras­er said she may have been too pas­sive in the en­counter when con­tact­ed yes­ter­day.

"I think in the first two games, I was a bit too pas­sive. I let her at­tack too much, and I think it was be­cause I was serv­ing too short. So, I start­ed to change, and I won three games, but as a Puer­to Ri­can, she changed and adapt­ed well to suit, so she was the bet­ter play­er in the sev­enth set," Fras­er said.

"She al­so had a very good coach. Her coach is the fa­ther of the num­ber 10 play­er in the world, so she had a good coach telling her what to do point by point. So, she was able to change her game and adapt to what­ev­er I was send­ing at her."

Fras­er con­sid­ered one of T&T's bet­ter play­ers, be­lieves that de­spite the los­ing re­sult, the Puer­to Ri­can can be beat­en by her.

"I can beat her, that's what I be­lieve be­cause last year we played in the round of 16 and I lost on the same score 4-3, 11-9, it was a very close game. I don't see her as a bet­ter play­er, but to­day she was the bet­ter play­er. I was a bit too pas­sive for most of the tour­na­ment, I was so afraid to take some shots and to take some risks," Fras­er said.

De­spite the re­sult in that con­test, both the T&T men's and women's teams fin­ished third over­all and qual­i­fied for the IT­TF Pan Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships in Oc­to­ber in the Unit­ed States.

The T&T men's team com­pris­es Der­ron Dou­glas, Aaron Wil­son, Yu­vraaj Dookram, and Ma­lik Gopaul. The coach is Aaron Ed­wards. The women's team fea­tures Fras­er, Rheann Chung, Imani Ed­wards Tay­lor and Jor­dan Thong.