Britton, Franklin, Lowe, Cummings advance in singles play

Shemar Britton

Guyana’s table tennis players endued a day of mixed fortunes in the singles category of the Commonwealth Games currently being played on the Gold Coast of Australia but Trenace Lowe and Natalie Cummings in the women’s singles and Christopher Franklin and Shemar Britton all advanced to the next round  after placing second in their groups.

Lowe was the first to take the table and lost her first match to Karen Lyne of Malaysia 1-4 after claiming the first set 12 -10.

She then dropped the following three 5-11, 11-13, 9-11.

Lowe’s second encounter of the day saw her overcoming Xuan Li of Fiji by a 4-1 score-line to underline her day of ups and downs. She won the first 11-9 and dropped the second 10 – 12 before winning the next three 11-7, 11-4, 11-6.