Guyana wobbly on opening day
The Guyanese junior squash team experienced mixed fortunes on the opening day of the Seventh Pan American Junior Squash Championships in Lima, Peru where they will be competing against Argentina, Barbados, Canada, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico.
Three very experienced male athletes, Deje Dias, Alexander Arjoon and Raphael deGroot who were on the Guyanese team that won the Caribbean boys’ team championship suffered emphatic losses to superior opponents in the first round of the individual competition while Mary Fung-A-Fat and Keisha Jeffery recorded victories later in the day.
Dias was thrashed by Mexico’s Daniel Tepos 1-9 in all three sets; Arjoon was defeated by Canada’s Albert Shohiet (0-9, 4-9, 2-9) and deGroot beaten 1-9, 2-9, 0-9 by Peru’s Alonso Escuero.
Fung-A-Fat defeated Guatemala’s Winifier Bonilla (9-2, 9-5, and 9-3) and Jeffery defeated Ecuador’s Nicole Gordillo (9-3, 9-5, and 9-3).
Ashley Khalil and Kayla Jeffery received byes into the second round in the under-19 tournament and were billed to be in action yesterday against Argentina’s Antonella Falcion and Canada’s Alix Yonger respectively.
