Britton’s round of 32 defeat ends Guyana’s campaign

THE country’s representatives at the ongoing Pan American Cup 2025 Shemar Britton and Olympian Chelsea Edghill have both bowed out at the round of 32 level after competing on Friday in the International Table Tennis Federation competition being held in San Francisco, USA.

Shemar Britton, playing on Friday evening, lost a difficult clash in the round 32, when he came up against USA’s Nandon Naresh at the International Table Tennis Federation Pan American Cup 2025.

He lost the first set 11-5 but bounce back stronger to narrowly lose the second set 11-9 as he put in a tremendous effort. Britton made a greater effort in the third but still missed out. Losing narrowly 12-10, he would show resolve to force a fifth set to stay in the games by winning the fourth 11-9 but could not hold on any longer losing the fifth set 11-7 to surrender the match 4-1.

Britton gave a breakdown of the encounter after the clash, “It was a very tough outing against Nandan Naresh from the USA, I didn’t start particularly well but as the match went on I started playing better and better, at a crucial stage he outplayed me a little bit and that swayed the match in his favour but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a bad start to the season to get some high qualify matches under belt, looking forward to a good year and playing at this level so earlier in the year should bode well for upcoming competition.”

Meanwhile, the event sponsored by JP Morgan saw the national champion Chelsea Edghill battling hard in a tough matchup, earlier on Friday, her first competition for the year after a training stint in Cuba.

Olympian Chelsea Edghill lost her round of 32 clash to Ecuador’s Angelica Arellano 4 sets to 1.
Edghill lost the opening two sets but settle down found her rhythm to win the third but struggled to lose the last two sets and the match 4-1.

Unless either player gets a bye to the round of 16, they will not advance to the next round.

The players will earn ITTF ranking points and have the opportunity to claim US $20,000 in prize money for reaching the semifinals in the Singles category and will be awarded entry into the ITTF Singles World Cup in China this year.