Cuba swept the team competition at the 62nd annual Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in Havana, yesterday.
In the men’s team final the Cubans blanked Puerto Rico 3-0.
Livan Martinez gave his team the lead with a hard fought 12-10, 4-11, 11-8, 5-11 and 12-10 defeat of Daniel Gonzalez while Jorge Campos made it 2-0 with a 12-10,11-2, 10-12, 11-5 defeat of Angel Naranjo.
The match however ended in an anticlimax after Puerto Rico’s Oscar Birrell was injured in his pivotal third match against Adrian Perez. Perez subsequently won the match 11-8, 10-12, 11-9, and 11-1.
