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Local TT players participate in high level camp in China

Jun 26, 2014 Sports

By Edison Jefford
Leading Guyanese table tennis players are currently participating in a high-level Training Camp in China that Guyana’s Table Tennis Association (GTTA) had initiated through the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) Education and Training Programme.
ITTF Director of Education and Training, Polona Cehovin Susin and Mikael Anderson, also of the ITTF, supported the GTTA initiative along with the Guyana Olympic Association and some local sponsors, Wartsila, Safety and Industrial Supplies and Nabi’s Engineering and Construction Limited.
“Some of Guyana’s elite players were able to benefit from an unprecedented high-level training camp in China,” GTTA President, Godfrey Munroe confirmed with Kaieteur Sport yesterday. He said the effort is geared at improving the quality of local players.
Those currently encamped in China include Chelsea Edghill, who is an ITTF ‘With the Future in Mind’ player that Continental Group of Companies sponsors under its Sunburst Juices brand; the talented Edghill was named on the Commonwealth Games team this week.
In addition to Edghill, this newspaper understands that negotiations allowed for rising prospect, Shemar Britton to benefit from the programme in China along with Trenace Lowe. The National Coach, Idi Lewis is with the contingent.
“Paul David is also currently in Beijing China doing extensive preparations for his participation in Scotland (where the Commonwealth Games will be held). He is with National Junior Player, Stephan Corlette, who Banks DIH Limited sponsored,” Munroe informed.
“This represents the first time in the history of local table tennis that players from Guyana would be participating in such a camp, which is key and critical to their preparation in key international events,” the GTTA President, who will be going with the Commonwealth Games team in the form of Manager/Coach, told this publication.
Munroe said that the Pan American Festival slated for Mexico, July 17-20 for which the women team has qualified, is high on the GTTA agenda. In addition, he stated that the Commonwealth Games are also on the agenda.
Guyana will also be represented at the 2nd Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing China, August 16–28 in the form of Chelsea Edghill. The Pan American Team Qualification scheduled for August 28-31 and The Central American and Caribbean Games in November are also among the important competitions that the GTTA hopes to make an impact, hence the Chinese camp.
The training camp was planned and designed in close partnership with the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the Shanghai Administration of Sports and features in-depth education and new coaching ideas from Olympic gold medalist, Li Xiao Dong.
World and Olympic Champions, Wang Liqin and Jorgen Persson are also among the facilitators that the ITTF pin-pointed. According to Munroe, the ITTF Education and Training Programme represents one of the most exciting table tennis training camps in the history of the ITTF Global Junior Programme.
“It’s a pathway the GTTA wants to adopt in view of raising the level of our payers to compete at an even higher level and ultimately becoming world champs. It’s a model of constant exposure to high level training with world class players,” Munroe said.
Additionally, “we feel that there are long term benefits to be derived from going through the kind of technical and tactical expertise that the local players will be exposed to,” the GTTA head said.
The national association will be exploring the possibility of similar camps in Sweden and Brazil, all in an effort to fortify local players for international competitions.

Photo of Godfrey Munroe and Guyanese in China

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