THE Trophy Stall Age Group singles badminton tournament concluded last Saturday at the Queen’s College courts with Tyeese Richards claiming the Boys Under-13 title and Narayan Ramdhani taking another title after overthrowing Jonathan Mangra for the Boys’ Under-19 trophy. Ramdhani claimed the day’s first win when he took out Mangra 20-22, 21-13, 21-11 – his second win against Mangra, having beaten him when the season began last month.

Coming in third behind Mangra was Hemraj Beharry, who won his spot after overpowering Tyreese Jeffrey, in another match played on Saturday. Beharry bettered Jeffrey in a three-setter ending 21-19, 17-21, 15-21.
Meanwhile Richards got the better of Baoxiang Lui in the Boys’ Under-13 finals beating him 21-15 and taking the final title in the tournament, which began on March 14.
The event featured play in the U-11, U-13, U-15 and U-19 categories, with some 60 players from schools all across Georgetown battling it out to be the best in their categories.
Participating schools were Marian Academy, Queen’s College, Bishops’ High, St Stanislaus College, Covent Garden Secondary, St Gabriel’s Primary, St Rose’s High, and School of the Nations.
Following the end of the matches, title winners of the various categories were presented with their prizes at a simple presentation ceremony at the courts, by Ms Jackie Benn (Headmistress of Queen’s College), Mr Yuyin Liu of the Chinese Embassy, Mr Lakshram Das of Bank of Baroda & Ms Gillian Mangra of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA).
Doing her usual take of the Girls’ U-15 and U-19 categories was Priyanna Ramdhani. Finishing second in both categories was Abosaide Cadogan.
However, with Priyanna out of the way Cadogan had no problem taking the title in the Girls’ U-13 category, which she copped last Wednesday after defeating Siya Persaud.
Persaud also took a podium position in the Girls’ U-15 category where she had finished third. The U-15 Boys’ singles title went to Jeffrey who upstaged Akil Haynes in the final. Third-placer was Ransell Ramsaroop.
Lui won the Boys’ U-11 title, Ethan Bianchini was runner-up and Abeva Jones was third. The U-11 Girls’ singles was won by Lesha Singh, Reba Ramlall was second and Zarah Watson was third.
The GBA extended gratitude to Ramesh Sunich, proprietor of Trophy Stall, for sponsoring the annual tournament.