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Lowe reaches new heights
By Edison Jefford
Guyana’s leading female table tennis player without question, Trenace Lowe, is soaking up her new
Trenace Lowe
international ranking while savouring the moment she cracked into the top 50 players in the United States of America where she has been resident.
Lowe reached a new height of 2173 on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rating, which was an improvement from her 2056 rating. The ascendancy of the rankings speaks of the ascendancy of the player; the higher the ITTF ranking the higher the level of the player.
The new international rating allowed Lowe to crack into the top 50 female players in the United States. The United States of America Table Tennis (USATT) body ranked Lowe at exactly 50 in the country following exceptional performances last year.
Lowe has been a consistent performer in the US since migrating there three years ago, but it was her performances in the region among those in the US that helped pushed her ITTF ranking to an all-time best for the top female Guyanese racket-wielder.
The 20-year-old Lowe finished strong last year, after placing third in the Women’s Singles at the Caribbean Championships that Guyana hosted at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. She was second in the U-21 contest after losing to the Dominican Republic’s, Eva Brito.
However, Lowe followed those up with wins at the Tobago Open and Super Singles in the Twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She then returned home to dominate the National Table Tennis Championships, clearly displaying her superior skill.
But despite those performances, a subdued Lowe told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that she will not describe 2011 as her best year. “It was not one of my best years, but it was fairly good. I did not have a lot of tours, but it was fairly ok,” Lowe told this newspaper in an interview.
She said the ‘up-side’ of last year was the fact that she played in all the competitions whether she was based in the US or at home in Guyana. However, Lowe expressed regret over Guyana’s non-participation at the Pan American Games trials, which she indicated was one of the major hurdles for her fledging momentum last year.
“I am disappointed that I didn’t go to the Pan Am qualifiers last year. Dom Rep went down there and qualified and we were right there with Dom Rep when they came here. Maybe if we went to the qualifiers, we would have improved as a team,” Lowe supposed.
She informed that she has been in Guyana since the Caribbean Championship last year just to be able to play tennis. The top player informed that being here for so long was her means of making herself available to compete for Guyana on the international circuit.
The current two-time National Singles Champion and former ‘Junior Sportswoman of the Year’ is aiming to compete at the Latin American Team Championships, the Olympic Trials and Latin Singles Championships in March in Brazil. She informed that the three competitions go down in the space of one week, which places a high demand on her preparations.
“I’m back to training everyday, and in the US, I compete every weekend which helps to keep me in the competition mode. I am hoping that the Olympic trials is good preparation for 2016 at least if we don’t qualify for the London Olympics,” Lowe, who returns to the US next week continued with this newspaper.
She believes that it is imperative that the Guyana Table Tennis Association expose players to the international level because for ambitious young players, who hope to play professionally, such as she does, it is one of the ways of getting into professional circuits.
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