Ja­cob Jacelon, Jack Brown, Make­da Bain and Ab­ba Camp­bell-Smith lead the way in the Ten­nisTT's De­vel­op­ment Tri­als which is be­ing held to pick four teams to rep­re­sent T&T at the ITF/COTECC Un­der-12 Team De­vel­op­ment Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua.

Ini­tial­ly, just the top two play­ers from each group were go­ing to be cho­sen for T&T, but Ten­nisTT learned yes­ter­day that the coun­try had been giv­en the right to host the cham­pi­onships.

Ac­cord­ing to an or­gan­is­er Sat­ur­day: "This means the top three play­ers in each group will rep­re­sent the coun­try. It is the priv­i­lege you get as the host na­tion."

On Sat­ur­day at the Tacarigua fa­cil­i­ty, the quar­tet surged to the top of their re­spec­tive groups. Jacelon, who had been un­beat­en af­ter two match­es in Group 1, pro­duced an­oth­er com­mand­ing per­for­mance to turn back third-seed­ed Oliv­er Har­ra­gin 4-2, 4-1 while No­vak Mal­colm, an­oth­er play­er in the group, de­feat­ed Ryan Steuart 4-2, 3-5, 10-6.

Mean­while, Brown, who al­so en­tered Sat­ur­day's ac­tion un­beat­en in two games in Group 2, main­tained that record with a 4-0, 5-4 Justin Dun­can while Josi­ah Hills clob­bered Ab­hishek Ramdeen 4-0, 4-0 for his sec­ond-place

It was ba­si­cal­ly the same with the girls where Camp­bell-Smith fea­tured in Group 2 and Make­da Bain in Group 1. The lat­ter had played just one match in the four-play­er group, but af­ter de­feat­ing Cher­dine Sylvester in her first match on Fri­day, Bain re­turned to the court to clob­ber Suri Ann Ram­cha­ran in straight sets 4-0, 4-1.

Top-ranked Sylvester re­bound­ed by beat­ing Samiyah Mo­hammed 4-2, 4-0 on court sev­en to stay on Bain's heels.

Mean­while, Camp­bell-Smith had a flaw­less vic­to­ry 4-0, 4-0 over Keyah Roberts, on­ly a day af­ter she pre­vailed over third-ranked Cyra Ram­cha­ran 4-2, 4-2.