WAL­TER AL­IBEY

Se­nior Sports Re­porter

wal­ter.al­ibey@guardian.co.tt

The Metro Ho­tel Chetwynd End of Year Open Sin­gles Ten­nis Tour­na­ment will serve off to­day with ac­tion in the Men’s A and B Di­vi­sions, the Ladies Open, and Men’s Over 45 at the club’s court on Up­per St Vin­cent Street in Tu­na­puna.

Akiel Duke, the win­ner of the men’s open the last time the tour­na­ment was held back in 2021, will not be among the par­tic­i­pants due to in­jury, how­ev­er, Ke­shan Moonasar, the beat­en fi­nal­ist, will have to wait un­til next week­end to be­gin his quest for pre­cious met­al.

To­day, top seed Kevon Bap­tiste will be hop­ing for a per­fect start against Keyan Goodridge in the B di­vi­sion, while in the A di­vi­sion, Ste­fon Ram­s­ingh will clash with Adisa Ide­mu­dia, and Nabeel Mo­hammed will have a date with Kyle Brit­ton.

In an­oth­er A di­vi­sion en­counter Kristyan Valen­tine, who came from a set down to up­set top seed Den­zil Clement in the boys Un­der-18 Sin­gles fi­nal of the Eighth An­nu­al TECU Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at Petrotrin Ten­nis Club, Pointe-a-Pierre on Sun­day ear­li­er this year, will come up against Justin Hors­ford.

The top two play­ers in each group will ad­vance to the semi­fi­nals, which will be fol­lowed by the fi­nals.

There will al­so be ac­tion among the ladies with Savi Singh up against the en­ter­pris­ing Sherisse Ar­joon and or­gan­is­er Sarah Sa­landy hop­ing to cap­i­tal­ize on the prizes at stake when she faces Char­lene Teles­ford.

In 2021, from a two-di­vi­sion com­pe­ti­tion for women, the ‘A’ ti­tle was won by for­mer na­tion­al star Shenelle Mo­hammed who got the bet­ter of Jae­da-Lee Daniel-Joseph in the fi­nal. Em Miryam Camp­bell-Smith took the ti­tle for the Ladies B di­vi­sion by whip­ping Gabriel­la Prince in an­oth­er hot­ly-con­test­ed fi­nal match.

Zachary Byng, who gave a cred­i­ble show­ing at the re­cent In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion’s (ITF) Ju­nior Tour­na­ment’s J60 Bar­ba­dos in Bridgetown last week, was the win­ner of the Men’s B Di­vi­sion back in 2021.