T&T duo Aaron Wilson and Derron Douglas reached the quarterfinals in the men's doubles at the 63rd Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation Senior Championship Tuesday at the National Gymnasium, Marcelo Drive, Georgetown, Guyana.
The doubles competitions served off with Wilson and Douglas beating Barbadians Farley and Tyrese Knight in their round-of-16 tie, 3-0, to set up a quarterfinal clash with Puerto Ricans Brian Afanador, and mixed doubles winner Daniel Gonzalez, with the latter pair prevailing 3-1 to end the T&T boys hopes of a medal.
In the mixed doubles round-of-16 matches, Wilson and Edwards-Taylor were brushed aside by Guyana’s Shemar Britton, and Edghill 3-0 while Fraser and Douglas also bowed out to Cubans, Jorge Campos, and Daniela Fonseca Carrazana by the same 3-0 margin in their respective round-of-16 encounter.
And the women’s doubles pair of Fraser and Edwards-Taylor did not fear any better in their last-16 tie and was ousted by Dominican Republic’s Munoz and Yasiris Ortiz 3-0.
However, the T&T quartet of Wilson, Douglas, Chloe Fraser, and Priyanka Khellawan will resume their quest for individual glory in the men's and women's singles main draw on Wednesday from 10 am.
The duo of France-based 14-year-old Fraser and 17-year-old Khellawan will resume play in the evening session in the women's singles round-of-16 after receiving round-of-32 byes.
Khellawan, who plays locally for Powergen, will face Dominican Republic's Shary Munoz at 3.45 pm, while Fraser, who recently won a tournament in France will do battle with Cuban, Daniela Fonseca Carrazana from 4.30 pm for places in the quarterfinals.
When the singles tournament served off on Monday, Khellawan was beaten by Puerto Rican Daniely Rios 1-11, 1-11, 3-11 in her Group Three opener, but rebounded to shock Guyana’s Priscilla Greaves, 11-8, 11-13, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, to snatch the other qualification spot behind Rios who defeated Greaves, 11-3, 11-5, 11-8, in the opening match in the three-player pool.
Her opponent, Munoz topped Group Six after she defeated Guyana’s Chelsea Edghill 12-10, 12-10, 11-6, and T&T's Imani Edwards-Taylor 11-7, 7-11, 13-11, 11-7 while Edghill powered past 17-year-old Edwards-Taylor of Queen’s Park 11-2, 11-4, 11-5.
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 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.
Carrazana topped Group Five with victories over Guyana's Thuraia Thomas 11-4, 11-7, 11-4, and Barbadian Krystle Harvey by walkover.
The local men's duo of Wilson and Douglas will both be in action in the round-of-32 main draw knockout with first serve at 10 am, against St Lucian, Dawitt Nurse, and Barbadian, Marcus Smith, respectively.
This after the 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 recovered to beat Guyana’s Paul David 11-9, 11-6, 11-9 to finish in the second spot in his three-player pool after Campos defeated David 12-10, 11-2, 11-4.
And his rival in the last-32, Nurse was beaten by Haitian Danika St Fleur 8-11, 6-11, 7-11 but had walkover victories against Dominican Republic's Abit Tejada and Guyana's Christopher Franklin in Group 11,
The USA-based 19-year-old Douglas, who attends Texas Wesleyan University, lost his Group Six opener against Cuban Adrian Perez, 8-11, 9-11, 11-9, 4-11 and but sealed a main draw spot when he upended former champion, Trevor Farley of Barbados 11-5, 11-9, 11-6 to end with a 1-1 pool record, after Perez beat Farley, 10-12, 11-5, 11-8, and 11-8, in the other match.
Barbadian Smith went under to Guyana's Shemar Britton, 8-11, 4-11, 6-11, but won against St Lucian Joshua Lubin 7-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-8 to advance.
T&T's other entrant in the men's competition, 33-year-old Yuvraaj Dookram was beaten 9-11, 6-11, 7-11 by Oscar Birriel of Puerto Rico, and Guyana’s Jonathan Van Lange, 9-11, 7-11, 16-18.
