Blue Thunder recently won the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Inter-Organisation teams tournament held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), Homestretch Avenue.
Blue Thunder comprising Devon Richmond, Remy Taitt and Vernon Rodrigues defeated Guyana Islamic Trust 3-0 to end the three-day competition, which raised the curtain on GTTA’s 2019 season, unbeaten.
The eventual champions, in the semis, edged out NP Electronic 3-2 while Guyana Islamic Trust defeated the Guyana Fire Service by a similar score line to set up the final. Nine teams were involved in the competition and were divided into three groups with the winners and runner-up in each group advancing to the knock-out round.
Group one saw the Guyana Fire Service (Warren Hackshaw and Quincy Rice) advancing on the back of wins against Guyana Islamic Trust “C” (C Hector and H Lewis), 3-0 and the Chinese Embassy “B” (Xilai Chen and Chunhui Li), 3-1.
Guyana Islamic Trust “C” copped the second quarter-final place by defeating the Chinese Embassy “B” 3-2.
NP Electronics (Michael Vieira, Xenophon Goliath and Bruce Murray) served their way past Guyana Islamic Trust “B” (Abdool Rahim, Saad Baksh and Areeb Ali), 3-0 and the Chinese Embassy “A” (Jiansong Shen and Feng Wang), 3-1 to advance from group two while the Guyana Islamic Trust “B” won the decider against the Chinese Embassy “A” 3-2 to book the other qualifying spot out of group two.
Advancing from group three were the eventual champions Blue Thunder and Guyana Islamic Trust “A” after both teams received a walkover from Power Producer Distributor Ink.