T&T's Un­der-12 boys' and girls' ten­nis teams had per­fect starts to the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion's (ITF)-COTECC Un­der-12 De­vel­op­ment Com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day's open­ing day at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua.

The coun­try's boys' team of Se­bas­t­ian Plim­mer, Josi­ah Hills, and Fa­vian Dates con­test­ed Group 1 of the round-robin play­off and se­cured an open­ing-match vic­to­ry 3-0 against St Kitts & Nevis.

Ear­ly-morn­ing rain failed to damp­en the spir­its of the lo­cal play­ers as Plim­mer com­plet­ed a flaw­less 6-0, 6-0 vic­to­ry over Greyson Bur­rell on court 5, hand­ing the boys in red, white, and black a 1-0 ad­van­tage.

That score dou­bled al­most si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly when Hills brushed aside Tzuriel Per­ci­val 6-0, 6-1 in the oth­er sin­gles con­test.

Lead­ing 2-0 in front of their home fans, the T&T trio then sealed the win with the pair of Hills and Plim­mer de­stroy­ing Per­ci­val and Bur­rell 6-1, 6-1 in the dou­bles for the 3-0 vic­to­ry.

Al­so, the coun­try's Group 1 girls' team three­some of Suri Ram­cha­ran, Make­da Bain, and Ysanne Williams made it across the fin­ish line in their clash with Aru­ba on court 10. Ram­cha­ran had a sweat-less 6-0, 6-0 dis­play over Atyan­na Fer­nan­dez in the open­ing rub­ber, while Bain made light work out of Eva Ben­schop 6-0, 6-3 to con­firm the vic­to­ry for the home team.

How­ev­er, the com­bi­na­tion of Bain and Williams lat­er proved to be un­stop­pable in the dou­bles as they com­plet­ed their un­blem­ished record by beat­ing the pair of Ben­schop and Fer­nan­dez 6-2, 6-3.

In Group 2 T&T al­so dom­i­nat­ed the pro­ceed­ings by beat­ing St Kitts & Nevis 2-1 on Court 4. First, Samiyah Mo­hammed pre­vailed over Briel­la Lake in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, and lat­er, Keyah Roberts reigned supreme over Shreya Rawat 6-4, 6-4 for a 2-0 lead.

Lat­er in the dou­bles, how­ev­er, Is­abel­la Ramb­ha­jan joined Roberts for the dou­bles, but they could not hold off an im­proved St Kitts & Nevis team as the pair of Lake and Rawat held off Roberts and Ramb­ha­jan 6-2, 6-1.