Keisha Jeffrey is lone Guyanese to qualify for quarter-finals
AFTER an unprecedented start to the VIII Pan American Junior Squash Championships in El Salvador, where all five members of the Guyanese team won their first round matches, it was only Keisha Jeffrey who managed to continue her winning ways in the second round.
The four-time Caribbean champion shocked Ecuador’s No.1 player Nicole Espinoza to advance to the quarterfinals. Jeffrey then lost to Mexico’s No.1 Karla Urrutia later in the evening which brought an end to her impressive run. The team will now turn their focus to the doubles competition where she will team up with Ashley Khalil for the Girls’ doubles, against Guatemala.
This pair has tasted success at Pan Am level in 2007 in Jamaica where they won silver in the doubles and bronze in the Team event.
Khalil also teamed up with Nicolette Fernandes earlier this year to win silver in the doubles competition of the South American games. Keisha’s twin sister Kayla and Ashley’s brother Jason Ray will try to outdo their siblings in the mixed doubles competition also against Guatemala.