-Britton, Alleyne and Cummings also fall in Latin American Singles TT

GUYANA suffered a heartbreaking opening round at the 2021 Latin American Singles and Mixed Doubles Qualification tournament, which started yesterday in Rosario, Argentina.
All four of our players faltered, but Chelsea Edghill had the most difficult defeat when she went up against Mexican Monica Munoz last evening.
The former Caribbean U21 female champion and Lourosa Portugal semi-professional player battle back from 2-0 down to draw 3-3 before she took the lead in the final set, but Munoz kept her nerves to win the clash 4-3 (11-5, 11-8, 4-11, 11-6, 8-11 and 11-9).
Guyana’s other female in Argentina, Natalie Cummings, also suffered an opening round defeat when she played against home girl Lucia Cordero last evening. That was a 4-0 defeat (9-11, 6-11, 7-11 and 8-11). Earlier in the day, former male Caribbean U21 champion Shemar Britton had a tough battle against Paraguay’s Alejandro Toranzos. Britton had to battle back twice to draw even at 2-2, but then Toranzos surged ahead to win 4-2 (11-5, 8-11, 11-2, 8-11, 11-3, 11-3).

The other Guyanese in Argentina, Joel Alleyne, who is based in Huston, went down 0-4 to Chile’s Gustavo Gomez.
The Guyanese table tennis players are expected to be in action again today. According to information from president of the GTTA, Godfrey Munroe: “The regional qualifiers for Latin America would have three (3) available men and women spots and two mixed doubles spots and would follow a format of single elimination best of seven matches where the winner for each round will automatically qualify for the Tokyo Games (Olympics), a redraw would be held for the next round.”
He said that in the mixed doubles qualification, each country can only field one doubles team. Guyana’s mixed doubles players will be Britton and Edghill.
The four players are with Coach Idi Lewis.