Canada’s Eliana Zhang ended the T&T International Open Badminton Championships with two titles on Sunday when she added the women’s doubles to the women’s singles she won earlier in the day at the National Racquet Centre in Tacarigua.
Zhang claimed the women’s doubles when she teamed up with fellow Canadian Jeslyn Chow for a walkover win over pair of Guyanese Priyanna Ramdhani and Barbadian Monyata Riviera who did not take the court.
Earlier, the Canadian got past Mexican Vanessa Maricela Garcia 21-17,21-18 to win the women’s singles in the first match of the day.
The women’s doubles final was not the only walkover win on Sunday, as the Jamaican pair of Samuel O’Brien Ricketts and Tahlia Richardson took the mixed doubles title after the Guyanese pair of Akili Haynes and Priyanna Ramdhani failed to take the court.
However, men’s double winners Ryan Ma of the USA and Canadian Daniel Zhou needed to work for their win over England’s Koon Jung Kelvin Ho and Jamaican Samuel O’Brien Ricketts who missed out on a second title. Ma/Zhou won the sets 21-18, 21-17.
The closest final of the day was the men’s singles final between American Mark Shelley Alcalca and Mexican Luis Ramon Garrido. The final score read 21-19, 21-18 in favour of the Alcalca.
No T&T players featured on the final day of the tournament as both the women’s doubles and men’s doubles pairs went out at the semifinal stage the day before. Cheyenne Bhola and Shivani Koonj-Beharry proved to be of little resistance to the eventual winners, Chow and Zhang with the scores reading 21-2, 21-1, while the men’s doubles pair of Vishal Ramsubhag and Ryan Sinanan were no match for eventual runners up Ho and Rickett’s 21-9, 21-9.
The winners were crowned after five days of competition in Tacarigua.
