T&T's Chloe Fras­er, Ma­lik Gopaul and Ji­nai Samuel stayed on course to se­cure medals in their re­spec­tive girls’ and boys’ sin­gles com­pe­ti­tions when they ad­vanced in their main draw of the Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Youth Cham­pi­onships in Bar­ba­dos on Thurs­day.

Hav­ing topped her Group Four round-robin se­ries on Wednes­day at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gym­na­si­um in Wildey, Bridgetown, the France-based Fras­er dis­patched Ja­maican Tse­naye Lewis 11-6, 11-1, 11-3, 11-4 in their best-of-sev­en sets round-of-16 clash and meets Puer­to Ri­can Kristal Me­len­dez for a spot in the semi­fi­nals af­ter the lat­ter de­feat­ed Cuban Adri­an­na Bode 11-9, 11-7, 11-2, 11-5.

How­ev­er, fel­low T&T play­er Jor­dan Thong, who was the run­ner-up in Group Eight with two wins from her three match­es af­ter beat­ing St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Jes­si­ca Mc­Carter 11-5, 11-4, 11-3 was stopped in her medal hunt by Puer­to Ri­can Ed­marie Leon 4-11, 3-11, 12-10, 3-11, 3-11.

How­ev­er, in Group Sev­en, Lyl­lana Bood­han was de­feat­ed by the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s Emi­ly Dominguez 10-12, 7-11, 6-11 and Cuban Emi­ly Dominguez 3-11, 2-11, 5-11, while in Group Two, T&T’s Jerisse El­der went un­der to An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Stu­ti Kashyap 4-11, 5-11, 5-11 and Cuban Adri­an­na Bode 3-11, 2-11, 5-11.

In the Un­der-19 Boys com­pe­ti­tion round-of-32, Gopaul, who was un­beat­en in his round-robin Group Sev­en se­ries, bat­tled from 1-2 down in sets to beat Ja­maican Bri­an Blake 11-5, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10, 12-10, 11-8.

How­ev­er, Josi­ah Joseph fought hard be­fore falling to Joel Lamm of Ja­maica. 13-11, 11-9, 5-11, 9-11, 2-11, 11-9, 11-4 in the last 32, while coun­try­man Ameer Mo­hammed was beat­en by Puer­to Ri­co's Chris­no­mar Aviles 7-11, 4-11, 3-11, 9-11 af­ter he won his sec­ond match in Group Two ver­sus Guyana’s Col­in Wong. 9-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 13-11.

<Samuel wins, Radge Coomar ex­its U-15 girls sin­gles>

Lo­cal play­ers Samuel and Zuri Radge Coomar had mixed out­comes in their Girls Un­der-15 Sin­gles main draw match­es.

This af­ter Samuel won against Mys­tique Sharpe 11-6, 11-5, 11-5 in the round of 16, while Radge Coomar was beat­en by St Lu­cian Shatal Charles 3-11, 1-11, 3-11.

Ear­li­er on in the day, in Group Two, Samuel re­cov­ered from her first-day loss to Nay­maris Her­nan­dez Mar­tinez 1-11, 1-11, 4-11 with a 6-11, 11-5, 11-6, 4-11, 12-10 vic­to­ry over Ja­maican Christi­na Royes.

Mean­while, Radge Coomar ral­lied past Jakaila Hoyte of Bar­ba­dos 9-11, 8-11, 11-2, 11-4, 11-7 to se­cure the run­ner-up spot in Group Five af­ter she was hum­bled by Guyana’s Jas­mine Billingy, the group win­ner, 4-11, 5-11, 4-11, in her first match on Wednes­day.

The oth­er T&T girls in the round-robin phase, Eliz­a­beth Ra­jah was out­classed by St Lu­cian Charles 6-11, 8-11, 6-11 in Group Six, and Ja­maica’s Keeara Whyte 3-11, 5-11, 7-11, while in Group Four, Puer­to Ri­can Au­ro­ra Bonome bet­tered T&T’s Jan­nah Mo­hammed 11-5, 11-3, 9-11, 11-7, with the lat­ter go­ing un­der to Guyana’s Aki­ra Wat­son 11-13, 4-11, 4-11 as well.

<Un­der-15 boys make last-16 ex­it>

The lo­cal trio of Aiden Noel, his broth­er Aaron Noel, and Daniel Bhim all made their ex­its in the Round of 16.

This was af­ter Aiden Noel beat Bar­ba­di­an Na­je Phillips 11-2, 11-8, 11-2 in the Round of 32 but was then beat­en by Ja­maican Gmar­co Smith 7-11, 7-11, 6-11, while Aaron Noel was edged out by Ja­maican Lo­gan Royes 9-11, 11-13, 11-13, and Bhim bowed out to Ser­gio Perez of Puer­to Ri­co 11-7, 3-11, 6-11, 10-12.

In the Un­der-15 Boys round-robin group phase, Aaron Noel ral­lied past Bar­ba­di­an Na­jae Phillips 8-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-5 in Group Nine and fol­lowed up with an 11-1, 11-7, 11-4 de­feat of St Vin­cent and The Grenadines’ Zaid Mar­tin.

Daniel Bhim tast­ed de­feat in his Group Six open­er ver­sus Ja­maican Lo­gan Roy­er. 11-4, 2-11, 7-11, 5-11 but re­bound­ed to beat Bar­ba­di­an Caleb Trot­man 11-4, 11-5, 11-3 for a sec­ond-round spot, while Aiden Noel was no match for Puer­to Ri­can Owen Shemesh, los­ing 5-11, 3-11, 10-12 in Group Three, but re­cov­ered nice­ly to oust Bar­ba­di­an Nyal Bushell. 11-6, 11-7, 11-5

The oth­er T&T Un­der-15 boys play­er Ma­teo Mollineau did not get out of his group, los­ing to Bar­ba­di­an Maleeq Aimey 8-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-13, 9-11 and Ja­maican Gmar­co Smith 8-11, 8-11, 5-11 in Group Sev­en.