Barbados: The desk tennis workforce of Barbados gained three medals on the LQ Sports activities Basic Junior Desk Tennis Event in Grenada final weekend. The workforce included athletes comparable to nationwide junior gamers Ndjai Collymore, Shania Hoyte, Zakaila Hoyte, Makai Jones, and Jaheim Farley.
Collymore, a scholar of the Seventh Day Adventist college returned residence because the under-13 boys champion and with a complete of three medals. He defeated Kinquan Sam with the rating of 11-7, Sep 11, 13-11, 13-11 within the quarterfinals earlier than his victory over Dejon Frank within the semifinals. He gained the semi-finals with the rating of 11-3, 11-1, 11-0.
The finals in opposition to Zadine Gibbs have been a bit tougher, however Collymore prevailed to take the under-13 championship with a rating of 11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 1113, 11-9 victory. Additional, Makai Jones, misplaced to Dejohn Frank 3-11, 1-11, 0-11 within the quarter-finals.
Within the Underneath-15 Boys’ division, Jaheim Farley misplaced to Jahry Prince Sep 11, 11-9, 13-11, 13-11 within the quarter-finals. Shania Hoyte who attends St George Secondary College earned a silver medal within the women’ under-15 division.
Shania defeated Devine Smith 11-9, 12-10 within the quarter-finals and Savani Frederick 11-8, 11-5, 11-8 within the semi-finals, however she went all the way down to Loukhya Premaj within the finals 4-11, 11-0, 3-11, 3-11 to take the silver medal.
The petite six-year-old Zakaila Hoyte introduced residence a bronze medal. The Belmont College scholar defeated Eliz Charles 11-9, 11-4 in spherical one and Loukhya Premaj 11-1, 11-0 in spherical two however she misplaced her spherical three match, 1-11, 6-11 to Premaj.
Collymore additionally entered the Underneath-19 division however misplaced to Cedric Marquez 10-12, 11-13, 11-6, 8-11.
Moreover this, Barbados workforce additionally returned from competing on the World Junior Tennis Championships in El Salvador in early March with a ninth place out of 12 groups.
The workforce of Dimitri Kirton, Zane Kirton and Zach King competed in Group D with El Salvador, Curacao, and Aruba and gained 5 of the 9 matches they performed in a round-robin sequence. They completed third within the group after which performed in opposition to Bahamas, St. Lucia, and Jamaica for the ninth to twelfth place.
They defeated St Lucia 2-1 and later performed Jamaica for the ninth spot. King misplaced to Nasari Robinson of Jamaica 3-6, 3-6 whereas Dimitri defeated Jamaica’s Michael Nickle 7-6(3), 7-5 and with the matches tied the Kirton siblings squared off in opposition to Nickle and Robinson defeating them 6-3, 6-1 to seize the ninth spot.
