Olympian Edghill lose opener, one more chance at Paris ticket today

OLYMPIAN Chelsea Edghill has failed in her first attempt to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics after a loss on Tuesday in the International Table tennis federation Americas Olympic Qualification.
The Guyanese, who is the lone table tennis player in Guyana and the English speaking Caribbean to ever reach the Olympics is hoping to take one of the four available singles spots to the summer games.

She opened her campaign on Tuesday against Venezuelan Roxy Gonsalves in a five-set affair in the round of 16.
Roxy won the first two sets 11-6 and 11-7 but Chelsea fought back to win the third 11-9.
However, the Venezuelan came back to win the next set 11-6 before closing it out in a tough fifth set 15-13 to win four sets to one.

Edghill is set to be back in action again today (Thursday) aiming to break through with her second effort at the Olympic qualification competition.
Seeding for Stage 2 will be based firstly on the results of Stage 1 and secondly on World Ranking.

The two losers in the finals of KO1 and KO2 will be seeds 1 and 2.
The competition is a precursor for candidates eligible for tripartite selection (Universality Spot) to the games.
All players have two opportunities to qualify for Paris 2024.