France-based T&T play­er Rheann Chung se­cured a spot at the up­com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Games Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment when she qual­i­fied among the top six at the end of the Spe­cial Sin­gles Qual­i­fi­ca­tion Event to the Pan Amer­i­can Games on Sat­ur­day in Li­ma, Pe­ru.

Com­pet­ing in San­ti­a­go, Chile at the Vil­la De­porti­va Na­cional Vi­de­na last week­end, Chung served off her eight-play­er com­pe­ti­tion by beat­ing Ecuadore­an An­gel­i­ca Arel­lano 11-5, 12-10, 11-9, 12-10 in their quar­ter­fi­nal clash and fol­lowed up with an­oth­er com­fort­able vic­to­ry, 11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 12-10 tri­umph against Pe­ru­vian Is­abel Duf­foo 11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 12-10 to reach the fi­nal and ce­ment her Pan Amer­i­can Games spot.

How­ev­er, on the oth­er side of the draw, Guyana’s Chelsea Edghill went un­der to Pe­ru’s Maria Mal­don­a­do 7-11, 11-8, 2-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8 in her quar­ter­fi­nal, be­fore win­ning 12-10, 12-10, 11-6, 8-11, 11-9 over El Sal­vadore­an Gabriela Suarez in the losers draw, on­ly to go un­der to Nathaly Pare­des of Ecuador, 5-11, 8-11, 4-11, 9-11 in their semi­fi­nal.

Join­ing Chung in qual­i­fy­ing for the Pan Amer­i­can Games were Mal­don­a­do, Daniel Fon­se­ca (Cu­ba), Arel­lano, Pa­rades, Paraguay’s Lucero Ove­lar, and Duf­foo.

Among the men, Caribbean duo, She­mar Brit­ton of Guyana who com­petes lo­cal­ly for Queen’sable Ten­nis Club, and Bar­ba­di­an Tyrese Knight al­so se­cured his pas­sage to the Pan Amer­i­can Games along with Colom­bian duo, San­ti­a­go Montes, and Ju­lian Ramos, Ar­genti­na’s San­ti­a­go Loren­zo, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s Ji­a­ji Wu, and Venezue­lan, Ce­sar Au­gus­to Castil­lo.

Fol­low­ing her suc­cess­ful cam­paign in Pe­ru, Chung, a five-time Caribbean Sin­gles cham­pi­on will spear­head this coun­try’s cam­paign at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games in San Sal­vador, El Sal­vador.

Chung will be joined by teenag­er star­let Chloe Fras­er and Imani Ed­wards-Tay­lor as well as the in­form Am­bi­ka Sitram, the na­tion­al women’s Clas­si­fied cham­pi­on, on the women’s team.

Lead­ing the medal hopes for the men’s team is USA-based Khaleel As­gar­ali who like Chung, is al­so in El Sal­vador where he will be joined by the oth­er mem­bers of the four-mem­ber team in top lo­cal­ly-based play­er Aaron Wil­son, Yu­vraaj Dookram, and USA-based Der­ron Dou­glas.

The duo of Aaron Ed­wards, and Dave Williams will serve as team coach­es while T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent, Dr Shellyanne Wil­son trav­els as team man­ag­er.

The ta­ble ten­nis com­pe­ti­tion will be­gin on Wednes­day (June 22) with the teams com­pe­ti­tions for both men and women.

T&T will com­pete in the men's tour­na­ment with Bar­ba­dos, Cu­ba, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, El Sal­vador, Guyana, Haiti, Hon­duras, Puer­to Ri­co, and Venezuela.

In the women’s seg­ment, T&T com­petes with Colom­bia, Bar­ba­dos, Guatemala, Cu­ba, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, El Sal­vador, Guyana, Mex­i­co, Puer­to Ri­co, and Venezuela.