The T&T quar­tet of Aaron Wil­son, Der­ron Dou­glas, Chloe Fras­er, and Priyan­ka Khellawan all ad­vanced from their re­spec­tive men's and women's round-robin groups to the main draw knock­out stage Wednes­day, when the 63rd Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Se­nior Cham­pi­onship served off with the Sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion at the Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um, Marce­lo Dri­ve, George­town Mon­day.

In the men's com­pe­ti­tion, 24-year-old Wil­son of Care­nage Blasters came up short in his open­ing match in Group Three against Cuban Jorge Cam­pos, 11-9, 7-11, 2-11, 11-8, 9-11, but re­bound­ed to de­feat Guyana's Paul David 11-9, 11-6, 11-9 to se­cure the sec­ond spot in the three-play­er pool and a main draw knock­out ap­pear­ance af­ter Cam­pos al­so de­feat­ed David 12-10, 11-2, 11-4.

USA-based 19-year-old Dou­glas, who at­tends Texas Wes­leyan Uni­ver­si­ty, had a tough Group Six draw and was beat­en by Cuban Adri­an Perez, 8-11, 9-11, 11-9, 4-11 and but came back in the af­ter­noon ses­sion to stun for­mer cham­pi­on, Trevor Far­ley of Bar­ba­dos 11-5, 11-9, 11-6 to end with a 1-1 pool record and se­cure his pas­sage to the main draw. Perez topped the pool at 2-0 af­ter he beat Far­ley, 10-12, 11-5, 11-8, and 11-8, in the oth­er match.

How­ev­er, in Group Four, 33-year-old Yu­vraaj Dookram, who plays lo­cal­ly for Queens' Park Crick­et Club, suf­fered a 9-11, 6-11, 7-11 loss to Puer­to Ri­co be­fore he was al­so de­feat­ed by Guyana's Jonathan Van Lange, 9-11, 7-11, 16-18.

In the women's com­pe­ti­tion, 14-year-old France-based Fras­er bat­tled past St Lu­cian Zar­i­anne An­tho­ny, 11-5, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, to se­cure the all-im­por­tant run­ner-up spot in the Group Four af­ter she was beat­en by Cuban Idaly Lovet 5-11, 11-13, 2-11 in her open­ing match. Lovet al­so beat An­tho­ny, 11-2, 11-4, 11-6.

A mem­ber of Pow­er­gen Club, Khellawan, 17, was beat­en by Puer­to Ri­can Daniely Rios 1-11, 1-11, 3-11 in Group Three, but like Fras­er, she dug deep in her sec­ond-place pool de­cider and beat Guyana's Priscil­la Greaves, 11-8, 11-13, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, to snatch the oth­er qual­i­fi­ca­tion spot. Rios de­feat­ed Greaves, 11-3, 11-5, 11-8, in the open­ing match in the three-play­er pool.

But, in Group Six, Guyana's Chelsea Edghill scold­ed 17-year-old Ed­wards-Tay­lor of Queen's Park 11-2, 11-4, 11-5, be­fore the host play­er was swept aside by Shary Munoz of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 10-12, 10-12, 6-11 while Munoz downed Ed­wards-Tay­lor as well, 7-11, 11-7, 11-13, 7-11.

To­day, the tour­na­ment will con­tin­ue with round-of-16 match­es in the mixed, men's, and women's dou­bles with the T&T teams fac­ing an up­hill bat­tle to get to the medal rounds.

In the mixed dou­bles, T&T Aaron Wil­son and Imani Ed­wards-Tay­lor meet Guyana's She­mar Brit­ton, and Chelsea Edghill while Fras­er and Dou­glas face Cubans, Jorge Cam­pos, and Daniela Fon­se­ca in their round-of-16 en­coun­ters from 10 am, while in the men's dou­bles, Wil­son and Dou­glas play Bar­ba­di­ans Far­ley and Tyrese Knight from 3 pm, and in the women's dou­bles, one-hour lat­er, Fras­er, and Ed­wards-Tay­lor meet Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Shany Munoz and Yasiris Or­tiz.