– Guyana fails to add to overall medal tally
GUYANA’s youth table tennis team had to settle for team bronze medals as they failed to pick up any singles or doubles medals as the competition concluded on Sunday in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The Guyanese teams snagged bronze in the U19 boys team event and U15 girls team event but did not pick up any in the individual categories.
Colin Wong was one of only two locals to get out of the group stage of the boys singles but lost in the round of 32 to Diomar Arguelle of Puerto Rico 4-0 in the seven setter.
While Krystian Sahadeo beat Dominican Republic Wilber Estrella 4-1 to advance in the round of 32, he lost his round of 16 clash with Puerto Rico Jerall Montijo
In the girls U19 singles, Thuraia Thomas narrowly made it to the round of 16 but lost 4-0 to Puerto Rico Kristal Melendez.
In the U19 boys’ doubles, two Guyanese pairs reached the round of 16.
Umar Percival and Krystian Sahadeo got a bye in the round of 32 but lost to Dominican Republic Rafael Cabrera and Ramon Vila thereafter and Jonathan Van Lange and Colin Wong also went down in the round of 16 to Puerto Rican pair Diomar Arguelle and Fabio Estevez 3-1.
In the U19- girls doubles, Thuraia Thomas and Akira Watson could not get past the Trinidadian pair of Priyanka Khellawan and Imani Edwards-Taylor.
In the mixed doubles for the U19 division, the pair of Umar Percival and Akira Watson was defeated by Jamaican pair Joel Lamm and Tsenaye Lewis in the round of 32 while Colin Wong and Samara Sukhai also suffered the same fate to Trinidad.
In the U15 category, Malachi Moore advanced out of his group in the singles to face Dominican Republic’s Jairo Roble in the round of 32 but lost 3-1.
In the girls U15 doubles, Jasmine Billingy and Samara Sukhai made it to the quarter finals but lost to host’s Yesmelly Guerrero and Arianna Mejia 3-0.
In the U15 mixed doubles, Malachi Moore and Jasmine Billingy were good enough to reach the round of 32 but lost out to the hosts Alexander Tejada and Mercedes Da La Cruz.
Earlier in the competition, Guyana male team which included Van Lange, Wong, Percival and Sahadeo picked up team bronze after losing to Dominican Republic in the semis.
U15 girls Billingy, Sukhai and Watson beat Jamaica and Trinidad to clinch third place in the girls’ category won by Puerto Rico.
