–Foreign teams arrive ahead of today’s launch

THE stage is set as the 2022 edition of the Caribbean Mini and Pre-Cadet Table Tennis championships get underway today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Teams for the tournament began arriving late Wednesday evening with Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines already touching down./ Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Suriname were expected last evening.

Meanwhile, Guyana is expected to be defended by a pool of talented table tennis prospects which includes Samara Sukhai, Jasmine Billingy and Akira Watson, along with Malachi Moore, Ebo Mc Neil, Darius Daniels and Zion Hickerson.

Billingy, who recently secured a spot at the Saint Stanislaus College, is the national girls 13 years and under, 17 years and under and 21 years and under champion.

Along with Billingy, Watson of St Stanislaus College will lead Guyana’s charge in the girls 13 years and under category while Sukhai, the national 11 years and under champion, is expected to lead the front in that category.

Moore, the national 13 year and under champion, and Ebo Mc Neil, the national 13 years and under and 15 years and under runner up and who hails from region 10, will set the tone in their respective categories.

New developmental talents, Hickerson and Daniels, among others, will seek to make inroads on their regional counterparts.

The championships are held in collaboration between the Guyana Table Tennis Association and Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation Championships.

The championship provides Guyana the opportunity, as host, to expose and showcase thirty-two (32) pre-cadet players,

These are split via the following ways: eight boys and eight girls in the 11 years and under Category; eight boys and eight girls in the 13 years and under category