– Queen Park Oval captures Table Tennis C/ship

QUEENS Park Oval Table Tennis team emerged on top to claim the second annual Edge Series Table Tennis Championship on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The 17 teams had to battle in the men singles, junior singles, mixed doubles and men doubles to claim wins.
Queen Park Club made up of Shemar Britton, Sekel McIntosh, Imani Edwards Taylor and Aaron Wilson played hard to overcome WASA Table Tennis Club in the finals 3 games to 1.

WASA featured Nigel Brayan, Ambika Sitram, Josiah Joseph and Curtis Humphrey.
In the singles Imani Taylor-Edwards easily got pass her country mate Sitram in straight sets, while in the junior singles McIntosh won over Josiah Joseph 3 set to 1.
In the other men’s singles match-up, Aaron Wilson had to pull out all the stops to beat Curtis Humphrey 3-2.
The mixed doubles say the pair of Sitram and Humphrey taking a straight set win over Edwards-Taylor and Wilson 3-0.
In the men doubles Shemar Britton teamed up with McIntosh to beat Joseph and Bryan 3-1 as they claim the final 3 matches to 1 to take the 2025 Edge Series team title.
Queen Park took home half a million dollars for the win with $300,000 for WASA.
The third place saw Quiet Storm taking on Guyana–Cuba team.
Quiet Storm included Colin Wong, Thuraia Thomas, Krystian Sahadeo and Orin Hickerson, they went down 3-2 and $200,000 for third.
Guyana-Cuba was made up of locals Elisheba Johnson, Malachi Moore and Niran Bissu along with Cuban Rosalba Aguilar.
In the semis WASA earned their place in the final after beating Guy-Cuba 3-2 and Queen Park whipped Quiet Storm 4-0.
Guyanese number 1 ranked Shemar Britton who play for Queen Park Oval while studying law in the Twin Island Republic says they came to dominate.
‘Queen Park, we won the champions league in Trinidad and we wanted to come here in Guyana in my home as the captain of Queen Park and establish our dominance and we did that. It’s a lot of experience, the team is a very experienced team, we have played together for a while now and a lot of hard work behind the scenes, all these players are representing their respective national teams and they put in a lot of hard work, hard works shows.”
Britton encouraged more Caribbean players to join the high-quality competition.
“This was a spectacular event and it only gets bigger every year, so I don’t see why not a lot of players in the Caribbean always cry out for lack of exposure and we are here brining international quality to the English speaking Caribbean so I think they should come.”
Meanwhile principal of Edge Sports Management, Olympian Chelsea Edghill the organiser of the series says it was overwhelmingly successful.
“It was more than I expected, especially when it was in regards to the support that we got from the public, even from the collaborators, the Guyana Table Tennis Association, Guyana basketball federation and the Kietuer Attack Racing Cycling Club, they came in and did a splendid job of organising, putting things in order for the races, all the technical support.”
She also thanked the sponsors for the trust and partnership.
“Huge thank you to KFC, Republic Bank with their power to make a difference initiative and all out other sponsors SQ apparel, Dragon Fly Drones Solution, everybody that made it possible that came on board and supported something that is very new and very different, we want to thank all for their support and believing in us.”
The Table Tennis Tournament was hosted in collaboration with the Guyana Table Tennis Association.
This multi-sport series also featured 3×3 basketball and cycling which also concluded on Sunday.