Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM
Shemar Britton wins T&T Super Singles Men’s Open Table Tennis Title
Guyana’s recently crowned Caribbean under 21 Men’s table tennis champion continues his forward progression when won the Trinidad and Tobago Open Super-Singles men’s open singles title when that championships concluded on Wednesday last at the National Racquet Centre, Orange Grove Main Road, Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago.
Shemar Britton Receives his Prize from Mr. O’Young .
Britton a scholastically inclined and immensely talented, disciplined table tennis player and gifted athlete, currently pursuing a law degree at the University of the West Indies St Augustine T&T, represented and played under the Queen’s Park Table Tennis club banner. He defeated all comers in the men’s singles round robin finals involving Trinidad and Tobago’s national Champion Curtis Humphreys of the WASA Table Tennis Club, Arun Roopnarine of the Arima Hawks, American-based Dayanand Maharaj, who plays for the Solo Crusaders club, former Caribbean junior champion Luc O’ Young and Aaron Edwards, another Queen’s Park Table Tennis club player to win the prestigious title which pits the crème of Trinidad and Tobago’s table tennis players.
Britton and the other gladiators advanced into round robin “Big Six” finals from the knockout phase held on Sunday 2ndDecember, national men’s champion Curtis Humphreys of the WASA Table Tennis Club beat N’kosi Rouse in three straight sets (11-7, 11-2, 11-8) to move forward to the finals. Arun Roopnarine of the Arima Hawks did the same to Joshua Manswell (11-8, 11-8, 11-3). Despite a little trouble in the third set, Shemar Britton, a Queen’s Park Table Tennis Club member, took out former national champion Reeza Burke (11-5, 11-6, 13-15, 11-9) to move forward. American-based former national champion andnational men’s team representative Dayanand Maharaj, who plays for the Solo Crusaders club, had to channel his inner Harry Houdini to recover from two sets down to beat child prodigy Derron Douglas in a gruelling five set clash (13-15, 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-9). Luc O’ Young moved past Everton Sorzano (14-12, 12-10, 11-9) to go to the final, and Aaron Edwards, another Queen’s Park Table Tennis team member, beat Andrew Alexander (12-10, 11-7, 11-6).
Shemar Britton in action.
In the round robin Finals Britton defeated Arun Roopnarine by a margin (3-0) margin, Arron Edwards (3-1), Luc O Young (3-1); Dayanand Maharaj by a (3-0) and Cutis Humphrey’s by a 3-2 margin to secure the title.
Britton, who will be doing battle for Guyana in the 2019 Senior Caribbean Table Tennis championships scheduled for March 9th to 17 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Guyana, will be sacrificing his holiday season to commence intensifying his preparation for these critical championships with a training camp in China.
The 2019 Caribbean Championships will be the qualification event for the Caribbean to select one male and one female to represent the Caribbean Region at the 2019 Pan American games scheduled for August 2019 in Lima Peru.
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