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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Junior tennis stars to play for 3rd at 'Worlds'

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Walter Alibey
8 days ago
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 FILE -Cyra Ramcharan, helped T&T girls' team defeat Jamaica, 3-0.

FILE -Cyra Ramcharan, helped T&T girls' team defeat Jamaica, 3-0.

DANIEL PRENTICE

T&T's Un­der-14 Boys' team of Chris Khan, Josi­ah Hills, and Oliv­er Har­ra­gin will play for the bronze medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion's (ITF) World Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic af­ter they were beat­en in a semi­fi­nal clash by the host na­tion 2-1 Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The girls' team of Cyra Ram­cha­ran, Make­da Bain and Cher­dine Sylvester earned the right to face Cos­ta Ri­ca for fifth po­si­tion when they swept aside re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica in three sets, 3-0.

Led by coach Lar­ry Year­wood, the coun­try's U-14 ten­nis princess­es re­bound­ed from a com­pre­hen­sive loss to Hon­duras the day be­fore to a pun­ish­ing re­sult that po­si­tioned them for the best fin­ish they could achieve at this point.

The usu­al­ly pro­lif­ic Ram­cha­ran wast­ed lit­tle time in dis­pos­ing of Ja­maica's Ny­la Fran­cis 6-3, 6-2. Bain then sealed the win by de­feat­ing Kashvi Daswani 6-0,7-5, on­ly for the pair of Sylvester and Ram­cha­ran to stamp their au­thor­i­ty on the match in the dou­bles by pre­vail­ing 4-1, 4-1 over the pair of Fran­cis and Daswani.

Lat­er, though the jour­ney for the boys' team in their semi­fi­nal en­counter was in stark con­trast to the girls. Still, there was no stop­ping Khan who stormed from a set down to beat Daniel Suero 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-4.

With a set away from a place in the fi­nal, Hills tried as the sec­ond rub­ber up against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Miguel Ba­que­ro, but he sur­ren­dered in the end 3-6, 3-6, al­low­ing the home team to lev­el the scores at one apiece.

The home team, cheered on by their fans lat­er pre­vailed in the de­cid­ing dou­bles 3-6, 1-6, cour­tesy of Miguel Ba­que­ro and Daniel Suero's dom­i­nance over the T&T duo of Hills and Har­ra­gin.

Fri­day's re­sults

GIRLS

Cyra Ram­cha­ran (TTO) def Ny­la Fran­cis (JAM) 6-3,6-2

Make­da Bain (TTO) def Kashvi Daswani (JAM) 6-0,7-5

Cher­dine Sylvester/Cyra Ram­cha­ran (TTO) def My­la Fran­cis/Kashvi Daswani (JAM) 4-1,4-1

TTO Girls def Ja­maica 3-0 and will face Cos­ta Ri­ca to­mor­row for 5th and 6th po­si­tion

BOYS

Chris Khan (TTO) def Daniel Suero (DOM) 1-6,7-6(2),6-4 TTO

Josi­ah Hills (TTO) lost to Miguel Ba­que­ro (DOM) 3-6,3-6

Miguel Ba­que­ro & Daniel Suero (DOM) def Josi­ah Hills & Oliv­er Har­ra­gin 3-6, 1-6


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