Nicholas Ali defeated Avian Rodrigues in straight sets to claim the under-15 title as the Guyana Badminton Assoc-iation’s (GBA) Mash-ramani singles tournament climaxed on Friday at the Queen’s College courts.
In one of the most anticipated matches of the first GBA tournament for the year, Ali and Rodrigues battled it out for the under-15 singles title as well as for bragging rights of being Queen’s College’s best male player
The first set lived up to expectations with both players giving their best on every shot and each refusing to concede a point.
Ali, however, stuck with it and managed to come out on top to take an early 1-0 lead after winning the first set 22-20.
In the second set however, Ali got an early lead and managed to close out Rodrigues winning the second set 21-8.
In the girls’ under 15 final Anissa Ridrigues won by default over Ashranica Persaud.
Stabroek Sport understands that the emotions of family members of both players got involved in the game.
Each player had won a set before controversy arose in the final set between family members and the umpire after which, members of Persaud’s family withdrew her from the match.
In the other final, however, Narayan Ramdhani defeated Aman Alvis in consecutive sets to claim victory in the boys under-12 singles final.
Results from Fridays matches:
Under-13 Boys Singles Finals:
Narayan Ramdhani defeated Aman Alvis: 21-9,21-4
Under-15 Boys Singles Finals:
Nicholas Ali defeated Avian Rodrigues: 22-20,21-8
Under-15 Girls Singles:
Anissa Rodrigues defeated Asharnica Persaud: 21-18,10-21,0-21
The Final Results of the Mashramani Tournament 2008 are as follows:
Under 11 Boys Singles:
1st place Narayan Ramdhani
2nd place Jordan Isaacs
3rd place Diquan Naughton
Under 11 Girls Singles:
1st place Priyanna Ramdhani
2nd place Lidya Alphonso
3rd place Maya Persram
Under-13 Boys Singles:
1st place Narayan Ramdhani
2nd place Aman Alvis
3rd place Andrew Peroune
Under-13 Girls Singles:
1st place Asharnica Persaud
2nd place Priyanna Ramdhani
3rd place Anara Khan
1st place Nicholas Ali
2nd place Avian Rodrigues
3rd place Narayan Ramdhani
Under-15 Girls Singles:
1st place Anissa Rodrigues
2nd place Asharnica Persaud
3rd place Anara Khan
Under-19 Girls Round Robin Singles:
1st. Place Avashti Persaud
2nd Place Anissa Rodrigues
3rd Place Asharnica Persaud
At the presentation ceremony special prizes were awarded for Sportsmanship to Tashana Lowe Kevin Quaicoe, Sachin Ramdhani and Christopher Persaud
Meanwhile, the GBA Open doubles tournament is expected to begin next month while German Valdez, Development Director of the Pan American Badminton is expected to visit Guyana from March 6- 10.
The training of junior players will take place during Valdez’s visit.
