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Akilah Jones, Quincy Williams emerge as top U-10 Mini-Tennis players
Nine year old Akilah Jones of Green Acres was all smiles on Saturday June 28th last as she struggled to hold her trophies for Best Girl, Most Talented Player and Best School in the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) Inter School Tennis Under-10 competition.
After playing four rounds of competition and 10 matches, she proved her potential to be Guyana’s top seed in the future by not allowing herself to lose a match. Coming in for a close second spot was Sunnah Sealy of Redeemer Primary who was also feisty in her ability to keep the ball in play.
In the boy’s category, Quincy Williams of F.E. Pollard copped the top spot by winning three rounds and seven matches, showing off his consistency and style even at this grass roots level of tennis. Runner-up was Vinicius Spricigo of Gisele Primary.
The top performers of the Inter-school Tennis 10s competition display their trophies following the conclusion of the event. Akilah Jones is 3rd left and Quincy Williams is right.
A total of nine boys and twenty-seven girls were selected for participation in the competition, coming from other schools such as St. Pius Primary, Stella Maris Primary, Marian Academy Primary and Mae’s Under-12 Primary.
The round-robin format was used to give the players an opportunity to play many matches against the participants from other schools and the number of matches won was used to determine the winner.
At the closing ceremony, President of the Guyana Tennis Association Grace McCalman thanked the New Guyana School for hosting the competition and reiterated GTA’s commitment to rebuilding their junior programme for bottom up.
General Manager, Alphonso De Armas Jr., who was present for most of the competition, was enthusiastic about the event and committed his school to supporting such an activity in the future even as he develops his own tennis programme for the school.
The President further urged parents and teachers to ensure that physical and competitive activities are maintained for children, as it contributes in a big way to their ability to focus and perform well in their academics.
She noted particularly, that the Roraima Tennis Club was well represented for the first time in this competition where also for the first time the number of girls heavily surpassed the boys. National Junior Tennis Coordinator Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan expressed her optimism about the future of tennis with this new crop of young players, but hopes that parents and teachers make a special effort to support physical activities such as tennis.
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