GUYANA’S squash players made a solid start to the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Senior Championships, with most players securing victories on Sunday’s opening day at the National Racquet Centre and the Georgetown Club Courts.

Notable performances came from Jason-Ray Khalil, who defeated Bermuda’s Brendon Fourie 11-1, 11-2, 11-1 and advanced to play countryman Daniel Ince on Sunday from 18:30h at the Georgetown Club.
Ince won his match against Jamaican Dane Schwier 11-9, 11-3, 11-13, 11-7.

A semi-finalist in 2023, Alex Arjoon, started his campaign with a win over Jamaica’s Aaron Levy 11-2, 11-1, 11-3 and will now face this year’s Caribbean U-19 silver medallist Barbadian Alex Stewart at 18:30h on Sunday.
Samuel Ince-Carvalhal also won, defeating Bermudian Matthew Elliot, and then faced the highly-ranked Julian Jervis.

Another big win for Guyana came from Michael Alphonso Jr., who defeated Jace Jarvis, and faced Darien Benn of Barbados in his next match.
The clinical Shomari Wiltshire also got a comfortable victory.

The ladies also had success.
Ashely DeGroot won 14-12, 11-6, 11-3 against Rhea Khan and moves to battle teammate Kirsten Gomes, who won 11-1, 11-5, 11-4 against Lori-Ann Foley.
2022 female champion Ashley Khalil, Mary Fung-A-Fat, and the Wiltshire sisters – Larissa and Akeila were successful.

Today will mark a key day in the individual segment, as players aim to qualify for tomorrow’s finals.