Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships...Guyanese players turn in creditable showing on opening day

Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships…Guyanese players turn in creditable showing on opening day

Aug 12, 2013 Sports

Jamaican Chris Binnie set to defend Men’s crown

The Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships powered by POWERADE and SMALTA started yesterday at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts with the commencement of the individual tournament.
Three rounds of matches were scheduled to be played in the Men’s Individual Draw and two rounds of matches in the Women’s Individual Draw were played. Up to press time two of the three rounds scheduled for the Men’s had been played.
The first upset of the tournament occurred when former Caribbean Junior Champion Guyanese Ryan Farnum defeated OECS player Jules Snagg seeded 9/16 three games to one 7-11,11-9,14-12,11-4.
Another former Guyanese Junior player Kristian Jeffrey gave Cayman Islands player Cameron Stafford, Caribbean Individual runner -up in 2012 and seeded 3/4 in this tournament, a major scare when he won the first game 11 – 8 and had game ball in the second at 10 -9. However Cameron won that game 15 – 13 and then won the next 11-1 and then 11- 5.
Defending Men’s Individual Champion Jamaican Chris Binnie won his second round match against Nku Patrick 11-0, 11-4, 11-5 and then cruised into the quarterfinals with a fairly comfortable victory over Guyanese Ryan Farnum who had earlier upset OECS Player Jules Snagg winning 11-5, 11-7, 11-2.
Top Guyanese players Sunil Sett, Richard Chin and Alex Arjoon had all progressed into the round of sixteen with easy victories over their opponents. Sunil Sett beat Cayman Islands player Julian Jervis 11-4, 11-6, 11-3, Richard Chin beat Kevin Bailey of the OECS 11-3,11-2,11-9 and Alex Arjoon beat 11-7,11-4,11-0.
Guyanese Jamaal Callender, who earlier had defeated Caribbean Under-17 Champion Nyron Joseph 11-2,12-10, 9-11, 11-3 then lost in the round of sixteen to Former Caribbean Champion Gavin Cumberbatch 12-10,11-5,11-8 and Jason Ray Khalil lost to Jamaican 5/8 seed Bruce Burrows 11-9,9-11, 12-10,3-11,3-11.
Defending Women’s Individual Champion Nicolette Fernandes cruised into the quarterfinals with an easy victory over Barbadian Amanda Haywood 11-3,11-4,11-5 and Barbadian Karen Meekins seeded two also had an easy victory over Jamaican N Boreland 11-4,11-0,11-4.
Guyanese Keisha Jeffrey made a welcome return to the courts with a victory over Barbadian Nadia McCarthy 11-4, 11-8, 11-5. In an all Guyanese match up Victoria Arjoon beat Gabrielle Fraser 11-6, 11-9, 9-11, 11-7. Mary Fung-A-Fat beat Akeila Wiltshire 11-5, 11-6, 11-5 and Ashley DeGroot beat Larissa Wiltshire 10-12, 11-5, 11-7, 9-11, 11-3.
Former Caribbean Under 19 Champion Ashley Khalil defeated another former Under-19 Champion Kathy Shuffler-Ten-Pow 11-5, 11-1, 11-5. Barbadian Caribbean Under-17 Champion Gylla Mckenzie defeated Guyanese Taylor Fernandes 11-9, 11-4, 11-3.
Matches continue today with quarterfinals and semifinals in both the Men’s and Women’s Open Divisions and matches in the Men’s and Women’s Plate competitions.