Kane Watson and Keeara Whyte have been topped champions of the 2024 Jamaica Desk Tennis Affiliation (JTTA) Nationwide Senior and Junior Championships, held on the Nationwide Indoor Sports activities Heart in Kingston from September 6-8, with Watson marking a triumphant return to say his sixth nationwide title.
After popping out of retirement, Watson dominated the early phases, successful the primary three units 11-7, 11-3, and 11-8 in a seven-set thriller towards defending champions Mark Phillips. Nevertheless, the loser mounted a robust comeback, taking the following three units 11-6, 11-5, and 11-9, forcing a decisive seventh set. In a tense finale, Watson held his composure to win the ultimate set 11-9, sealing his outstanding victory.
Within the girls’s singles remaining, Whyte dethroned reigning champion Tsenaye Lewis with an emphatic 4-0, straight-sets victory. Whyte cruised via the primary set 11-4, however confronted sturdy resistance within the second and third units, each of which she narrowly gained 11-9. The fourth set noticed Lewis struggle valiantly to increase the match, however Whyte in the end prevailed 12-10 to seize the championship.
Doubles competitors
Within the doubles competitors, Watson teamed up with semi-finalist Paulton Madden to say the lads’s doubles title, whereas sisters Tsenaye and Gianna Lewis clinched the ladies’s doubles crown.
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The junior competitions noticed the rise of a number of younger stars, with the next gamers taking dwelling age-group titles: Kaylor Dyer within the U-9 and U-11 ladies; Shacoil Hen in U-9 boys; Malone Hen within the U-11 boys; Kira Scott within the U-13 and U-15 ladies; Ajani Spencer within the U-13 boys; Gmarco Smith within the U-15 boys; Keeara Whyte within the U-19 ladies, and Azizi Johnson within the U-19 boys.
Within the veterans’ division, Andrea Wadsworth claimed the ladies’s Over-40 singles title, whereas Phillip Drummond took the lads’s Over-40 crown.
The workforce occasions noticed Kingston emerge as the highest girls’s parish workforce, whereas St. Andrew secured the lads’s parish title, rounding off an thrilling weekend of desk tennis motion.
