There will be noth­ing tran­quil about the play when the Shell Tran­quil­li­ty Open re­sumes ac­tion on Fri­day. Its been 10 months in wait­ing for the women, men and vet­er­ans sin­gles com­peti­tors to do bat­tle in an at­tempt to se­cure the var­i­ous ti­tles. This was as a re­sult of the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic which stopped play on the week­end of March 15, 2020, af­ter an in­crease of Covid-19 cas­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

At that point in time, the Men's Dou­bles ti­tle was al­ready cap­tured by Richard Chung and Dex­ter Ma­hase, with the women's crown go­ing to the pair of Carlista Mo­hammed and Cameron Wong. Carlista then teamed up with an­oth­er Mo­hammed, Nabeel, to seal their mixed dou­bles suc­cess. The two who are top seeds in their re­spec­tive sin­gles group­ing will take to the court on Sat­ur­day.

Nabeel in a men's round of 16 bat­tle with the un­seed­ed Liu Chin on Court 1 from 9:00 am and Carlista takes to the court from 1:00 pm in quar­ter-fi­nal du­el on court 2 with Zara Ghu­ran.

Co-Tour­na­ment di­rec­tor An­tho­ny Je­re­mi­ah told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Thurs­day that it was a pe­ri­od of wait­ing, plan­ning and de­cid­ing when would be the right time to com­plete the tour­na­ment as the idea to can­cel it all to­geth­er lurked.

How­ev­er, with the green-light giv­en by the spon­sors and the com­mit­tee, it was de­cid­ed that the be­gin­ning of the new year will be best suit­ed for com­ple­tion.

With the var­i­ous Covid-19 pro­to­cols in place for the safe and suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the tour­na­ment, the women and men will play through­out the week­end. A de­ci­sion was tak­en to have the vet­er­ans com­pe­ti­tion on a week­end of their own which will serve off next Fri­day.

This is viewed as an ad­di­tion­al safe­ty mea­sure as per­sons in that age group are at a high­er risk of con­tract­ing the virus.