13th Annual Caribbean Junior, Cadet TT c/Ships

Overseas racquet wielders “pumped’ for opening salvo

By Kiev Chesney

table-tennnis.jpgTeams from across the region are psyched and ready to commence play in the 13th Annual Caribbean Junior and Cadet Championships which will serve off at 9am at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall today.

The first three teams to have arrived, Curacao, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados, wasted little time after their arrival in rushing to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall venue for the matches to have a `feel’ of the playing facilities. The three teams equally divided on the six tables in the cordoned-off area, trained for approximately two-and-a-half hours under the supervision of their team coaches before a blackout at the facility brought a premature end to the training session and sent some of the players back to the main Street Plaza Hotel with the team bus.