Training, exposure keys to TT success — says Idi Lewis

Idi Lewis at the 2009 Caribbean table tennis championships in French Guiana.

Idi Lewis is an exceptional table tennis player. A southpaw, Lewis has the unique distinction of winning the Caribbean junior boys singles title and reaching the semi-finals of the men’s competition. His feats will undoubtedly place him in table tennis’s Hall-of-Fame alongside such great players as George Braithwaite, Sydney Christophe, Balkisson, Errol Caetano, Carol Davidson, Claire and Margurite Harris and a number of other great players this country has produced when the time comes.

In the meantime though, Lewis is fast carving out a career as a coach extraordinaire.

While a number of players have won either the men’s, women’s or junior singles titles not