Guyana charged-up for Senior CASA with full contingent

Aug 18, 2012 Sports

– tournament serves off today in T&T

With hopes to changing its fortune at the senior level, the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has sent a full contingent of players to compete at the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Senior Squash Championships which serves off today August 18 at the Cascadia Squash Club, St. Ann’s Trinidad and Tobago.
Guyana’s team for this year’s event is packed with talented players that have won CASA titles at both the senior and junior levels. This year Guyana has sent a male team, a female team as well as veteran competitors.
The Men’s team comprises Richard Chin, current national champion Alexander Arjoon, former national champion Julian Chin, Jamal Callender, Deje Dias and Steven Xavier. On the women’s side, Guyana will be led by World number 73 Nicolette Fernandes along with Ashley Khalil, Mary Fung-a-Fat, Ashley deGroot, Victoria Arjoon and Tiffany Solomon. The veterans are Brian Yong (Over-40), Alwyn Callender (Over-50) and Dennis Dias (Over-60).
GSA President Andrew Arjoon was optimistic of Guyana’s chances in challenging the Region’s top senior competitors with a full quota of players for the overall title this time around.
“We are happy to be sending a full complement this year and expect that we shall be a competitive team. The competition will be of an extremely high level but we feel that Team Guyana will be up the challenge,”Arjoon said yesterday.
Barbados won the overall title at last year’s tournament after winning the women’s team title and the veteran category, while Jamaica placed second overall. The Organisation of the Easter Caribbean States, (OECS) are the defending men’s team champions. Unlike the junior team which has won eight consecutive overall CASA Overall titles, Guyana’s senior team won its last overall Senior CASA title in 1995.
Six-time CASA Junior Champion Nicolette Fernandes will be looking to win her fourth senior title in the women’s individual category. Fernandes defeated former world ranked player Karen Meakins of Barbados to win her third senior Caribbean title last year.
In the male individual category, US based Guyanese squash legend Richard Chin, who made an emphatic return to Caribbean squash in 2010, will once again be on the Guyana roster this year. Chin, who won the senior title in 2010, was narrowly edged in the final of the men’s draw by youthful Jamaican Chris Binnie last year. Apart for his titles at the junior Caribbean level, Chin is also a four-time All American player and played on the USA National team at the World and Pan American Squash Championships.
Two-time national champion Alex Arjoon is also in top form looking to improve on his performance in last year’s tournament, along with freshman senior Deje Dias, and junior player Steven Xavier who competed at Junior CASA last month in Jamaica. Mary Fung-A-Fat also competed at Junior CASA where she won the Under-19 title and managed to play the team tournament and individual category without dropping a game.

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