Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tennis Tournament begins Saturday

Oct 04, 2012 Sports

The annual Guyana Tennis Association (GLTA) Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tournament will begin on Saturday at the Pegasus Hotel and Racquet Centre Tennis Courts. The tournament is the premier junior tennis even on the tennis calendar which will see the best of Guyana’s junior players battle in four categories for supremacy.
The competition will feature matches for boys and girls in the U-18, U-14, U-12 and U-10 age groups. The match format will be round-robin in the preliminary rounds with the top players from each group advancing towards elimination rounds.
Matches will run off from 8:00am – 4:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday and continue each subsequent weekend until October 20th and 21st when finals will be played.

Christopher Franklyn (centre) of Nigel’s Supermarket presents
sponsorship cheque to GLTA President Ramesh Seebarran.

A high level of competition is expected especially in the U-18 categories where top players Gain Lewis, Daniel Lopes, Benedict Sukra ,Craig Campbell, Seanden David Lange and Khalif Gobin will compete against each other. The girls U-18s will have Shawna Gentle and Krystal Sukra as favorites with stiff competition expected from 14yr old Nicola Ramdyhan.
In the U-14 category the promising young players to watch are Afruica Gentle, Khalid Gobin and Keshon Reece, whilst in the U-12 category Shivanie Persaud, Kalyca Fraser and Jordan Beaton are the expected to be tough challenges for their peers.
The tournament has been sponsored by Nigel’s Supermarket for eight years in a row and is part of the activities that celebrate the Supermarket’s anniversary. Representative from Nigel’s, Christopher Franklin in handing over the sponsorship cheque to GLTA President Ramesh Seebarran, pointed out that the continued sponsorship showed the commitment of Nigel’s towards not only tennis in Guyana but in activities which will promote overall development in communities and youths in particular as sports provide a meaningful avenue to channel one’s energies in a positive manner.
GLTA Vice-President chairperson for Junior Development, Grace McCalman expressed gratitude on behalf of the GLTA and noted that the tournament is the premiere junior event that and that it will be used as a guide year to select the team that will participate in the Inter-Guianas Games to be held in Paramaribo Suriname from October 25-28.
Entry forms are available at all clubs with junior programmes to ensure maximum participation. Players are being encouraged to complete their registration for the tournament by today, Thursday October 4th. Coach Jeremy Miller, who will be involved with running the tournament, can be reached at 643-4423.