Guyana’s national senior squash team will be without the skills of women’s world ranked number 19, Nicolette Fernandes, when they leave for Barbados tomorrow, where they are scheduled to participate at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Senior Championships which begins this Saturday.

The team, which will see the return of Australian-based Guyanese Sunil Seth, will comprise six persons each on the men’s and women’s team, while the vets team will include 2013 Caribbean Over 50 Champion Brendon Mounter, Ramon Chan A Sue and Dennis Dias.

The women’s team will be lead by 2014 National Champion Mary Fung A Fat and includes Ashley De Groot, Akeila Wiltshire, Larissa Wiltshire, Victoria Arjoon and Tiffany Soloman. Meanwhile, in addition to Seth the men’s team also includes national Champion Alex Arjoon, former Caribbean Champion Richard Chin, Jason Ray Khalil, Robert Mc David and Nicholas Narain.

Fernandes, the defending champion of the women’s title, will miss the event as she has to play a mandatory World Squash Association event in Hong Kong. Additionally, the team will go without Ashley Khalil who is unavailable.

This no doubt produces a good opportunity for four time junior champion Fung-A-Fat to take her first Caribbean senior title, though she will definitely receive quite the fight from Arjoon and the Wiltshire sisters.

Finishing as runner up in the men’s singles, Seth will be given the opportunity to show what his exposure at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games has done to improve his game.
The same goes for Arjoon who also attended the Games alongside Seth.

Manager of the team is former Caribbean over 40 Champion Alwyn Callender.

Guyana will be defending the men’s, women’s and overall team titles which they had won when the competition was held in Guyana last year.