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GSA/Bounty Farm Mash handicap tournament underway
Benjamin Mekdeci
The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with Bounty Farm and its number one corporate sponsor Digicel, served off the Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Tournament Tuesday night at the Georgetown Club’s Squash Facility.
The tournament, which is one of the largest squash tournaments each year, has attracted some 40 competitors this time around including newly elected president of the GSA David Fernandes. For this format, players are ranked by their skills level and the stronger players are given negative points or handicaps, while the relatively weaker players have point advantages for the 15-point games in the two best-of-three format.
On night one, eleven matches were played and some of the country’s top players such as Ashley DeGroot, Mary Fung-A-Fat and Benjamin Mekdeci secured wins in spite of their handicaps. Mekdeci overcame Lydia Fraser in straight games 16/14, 15/13 even though she possessed an 11-point head start.
Two of Guyana’s player who competed at the Women’s world Squash Open last December, Ashley DeGroot and Mary Fung-A-Fat stopped their respective opponents who both possessed +10 advantages. DeGroot (0) defeated Pablio Mundini 15/13, 15/8, while Fung-A-Fat (-2) the reigning Caribbean under 19 champion, dispatched Dwayne Yan (+10) 15/13, 5/15, 15/11. Lloyd Fung-A-Fat (+6) also made his way into the second round after eliminating Avinash Odit (+7) 15/13, 15/12, in an evenly matched, keenly contested encounter.
Ashley DeGroot
GSA president Fernandes (+10), who was the 2010 runner up at this tournament, defeated Lee Fung-A-Fat (9/15, 15/12, 13/15).
The tournament, which concluded this Sunday, continued yesterday with matches in the main draw as well as the plate round for the players who were unsuccessful in their first round encounters.
Tuesday’s results:
(-2) Mary Fung-A-Fat defeated (+10) Dwayne Yan 15/13, 5/15, 15/11
Jonathon Antczak(+6) defeated (+5) Mehdi Ramdhani 15/11, 15/9
Benjamin Mekdeci (0) defeated (+11) Lydia Fraser 16/14, 15/13
Joven Benn defeated (+8) Alysa Xavier (2/15, 16/14, 15/13)
Nicholas Narain defeated (+12) Mahendra Khusial 16/14, 15/13
Ingram Edwards (+4) defeated by (+12) Kiev Chesney 15/13, 15/13
Antonio Joseph (+12) defeated (+6) Alec Mellville 11/15, 15/ 13, 13/15
Lloyd Fung-A-Fat (+6) defeated (+7) Avinash Odit 15/13, 15/12
Taylor Fernandes (+9) Hapoei Yang (+10) 15/13, 15/9
David Fernandes (+10) defeated (+8) Lee Fung-A-Fat (9/15, 15/12, 13/15)
Ashley DeGroot (0) defeated (+7) Pablio Munduni 15/13, 15/8
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