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Today in the Tacarigua Eastern Regional Sports Arena’s Classified Table Tennis Championship, Brittany Joseph and Merle Baggoo are anticipated to make their comeback.
Six competitions are set for today, including the women’s A division. The first significant tournament of the season will end tomorrow with the A2 and A1 divisions.
Aleena Edwards is not on the exceedingly short list of six female A division competitors, despite having won both major championships, the Silverbowl and the National Championship, when the sport was revived after a hiatus of nearly three years due to Covid-19.
The top-ranked player before the pandemic, Joseph, missed those competitions and must be ready to play well right away today because she was placed in the more difficult of the two groups for the opening round.
The top two players from each group go to the semi-finals, where the previous national champion will face Imani Edwards-Taylor, the runner-up in last year’s two main tournaments, and Ambika Sitram, who made it to the last four when she made a comeback in “Nationals.”
Like Joseph, Baggoo, the 1964 national champion who is currently in her mid-70s, will be playing in her first match since the epidemic. The former president of the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association, together with Linda Partap-Boodhan and Priyanka Khellawan, are all placed in Group A.
A few match points were saved by former top-ranked player Partap-Boodhan to defeat Joseph in the final of the last competition four years ago.
Khellawan, a former two-time champion in the Caribbean under-13 division, participated with Edwards-Taylor in the qualifying tournament for the CAC (Central American and Caribbean) Games in Guyana last month as well as the Caribbean open and under-19 Championship.
It will also feature the B and C categories for men and women as well as the beginner competition.
