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Table Tennis set to return to Berbice with a bang

Oct 28, 2012 Sports

 

Racquet wielders in Berbice are set to return to the table when the Berbice Table Tennis Sub Association in collaboration with overseas based Guyanese, Berbician Souvenir Ramdyal, 2009 Hall of Fame Realtor of Queens NY have organised a grand one day Knock out table Tennis Table competition for Berbicians.   The tournament which is named “the Berbice Table Tennis Championship” is scheduled to be played on Saturday, November 10 at the Berbice High School Auditorium beginning at 09:00 hrs. The tournament, which has the blessing of the Guyana Table Tennis Association, is expected to see the best Berbice racquet wielders in action.
A number of categories will be contested including U13, U15, U18 and open. Play is expected to be in both the male and female categories.
The organisers have sent invitations and are inviting all clubs, schools and persons interested to make contact as early as possible. Incentives will be available for the top three performers in each category. Incentives will also be awarded to the most outstanding player, most promising, most improved among others to be decided.
The competition is open to Berbicians only and those who would have been living and working in the county for the past three years.
Players are expected from all over the ancient county including Skeldon, Rose Hall, New Amsterdam, Berbice River, Canje and West Berbice. While a number of institutions and school are expected to send their players to participate including Guysuco Training Centre, University Of Guyana, The Guyana Police Force among others.  Refreshments will be provided and the Sponsor is expected to be on hand to meet the players, declare the competition open and distribute the prizes at the end of the competition.  Mr Ramdyal has planned to make the competition an annual one.
Officials from The Guyana table Tennis Association are expected to be on hand to help oversee the proceedings and help with the distribution of the prizes.
Interested persons can make contact with any of the following persons – Floyd Conway  in New Amsterdam/ Canje on telephone No 623-8481,Gibran Hussein in Skeldon  628-4248, Richard Bacchus 673-9112, Johnny Persaud 333-2869, Stanley  686-6431,Levi Nedd on number 641-9592 and J. Murray on 619-2107.
Berbice has a rich history in the table Tennis arena with the likes of former Caribbean champions Anand Sookram and Doreen Chow Wah.  Former national Female Table Tennis Queen and nine times champion, Desiree Lancaster, who is the only female to have won the tournament on five consecutive occasions, former national champions Donna Sue and Vida Moore.
While former national junior player Petal Bennet also won the Caribbean junior doubles title in the 90s.  Isaac Sewnarine, the late Roy Fredericks, Leslie Amsterdam, Alvin Kallicharran, Clairmont Saul, the Duff siblings, the Alphonsos and Floyd Conway among others have all excelled.  (Samuel Whyte)

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