Guyana’s women’s table tennis team failed to reproduce their performance against Scotland earlier yesterday and lost 0-3 to Canada as the team event of the Commonwealth Games continued yesterday at the Scotstoun Table Tennis Centre.
Canada’s Betty Guo defeated Trenace Lowe 11-5, 11-5, 11-8 while Anqi Luo stopped Chelsea Edghill 11-3, 11-7, 11-7. Guyana’s pair of Natalie Cummings/Edghill then won the doubles against Guo and Luo 11-9, 7-11, 11-6, 3-11, 12-10 before Mo Zhang defeated Lowe 11-3, 11-2, 11-2 to seal the victory.
The men’s table tennis team did not fare as well. Neeing to defeat India by a 3-0 margin to have a chance of advancing the men’s team lost 0-3.
Sanil Shankar Shetty and Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj defeated Paul David and Christopher Franklin 11-8, 11-6, 11-5 in the men’s doubles match while Soumyajit Ghosh defeated Franklin 11-8, 11-5, 11-9 and Arputharaj defeated Shemar Britton 11-4, 11-3, 11-3.
Guyana’s athletes also suffered defeats on the squash court and in the ring on day three of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bantamweight boxer Imran Khan unanimously lost his round of 32 bout versus Kenya’s Benson Gicharu Njangiru while local squash queen Nicolette Fernandes lost her round of 16 match three sets to one to reigning World Champion and World Ranked number two player, 30-year-old Laura Massaro of England.
In the Khan/Njangiru bout, two of the judges saw Njangiru winning 30-27 while the third judge scored the three-round fixture 29-27.
The World Ranked number 19 Fernandes lost the first set 7-11, recovered to win the second set 11-7 then dropped sets three and four 11-4 and 15-13.
In her first match on Thursday, the 31-year-old Fernandes beat N. Muchaile of Zambia in straight sets (11-4, 11-3, and 11-3).
Guyana’s squash player Alexander Arjoon also lost yesterday in a men’s plate round of 32 encounter he lost 9-11, 8-11, 6-11 to Zambia’s Mwingia Lengwe.
Today Guyana’s Dennis Thomas will face Papua New Guinea’s Jonathan Keama in a men’s middleweight round of 32 encounter while Eon Bancroft, who received a bye in the round of 32, will face Sri Lanka’s Maduranga Pahtirage in a men’s welterweight round of 16 clash on Monday.
Theresa London will take the ring next week. London fights Laura Price of Wales on Tuesday in a women’s middleweight round of 16 clash.
