Following his second place finish in the just-concluded Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) trials on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, young racquet wielder Edinho Lewis has been named on the men’s team for this year’s Commonwealth Games in India.
Lewis finished second to Christopher Franklyn in the two-day trials and also earned the sum of $50,000.
Franklyn, a member of the Guyana CAC team, earned $100,000.
Lewis will join the Commonwealth Games trio of Idi Lewis (no relation) Franklyn and Paul David for the October 3-14 games.
The women’s team will comprise overseas-based Trenace Lowe and Michelle John along with Natalie Cummings who won the female version of the GTTA trials on Tuesday and Wednesday.
However according to information reaching Stabroek Sport the GTTA has only been allotted four tickets for the games which mean that the GTTA might be forced to make the tough decision to send either a male or female team to the games.
Meanwhile in the male section of the trials Franklyn was pushed all the way and was forced to use all his experience before defeating Lewis 7-11, 14-12, 11-4, 10-12, 11-7.
Lewis had game points in the second game which he lost while Franklyn led 10-8 in the fourth before Lewis won the next four points to force the decisive fifth game.
Franklyn’s other wins came at the expense of Denzil Hopkinson whom he defeated 11-7,11-8,11-7, Paul Meusa whom he beat 11-5,11-3,11-4 and Nigel Bryan who lost 7-11, 11-8, 5-11, 5-11.
Lewis ended in a three way tie with Meusa and Bryan but took the second spot on the tie break after emerging with a +1 score.
Meusa took the third spot ahead of Bryan while Hopkinson finished fifth.
In other results, Lewis defeated Bryan at 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-8 and Hopkinson 11-8, 13-11 and 11-6 but lost to Meusa 11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 7-11 and 9-11.
Meusa defeated Hopkinson 11-7, 6-11, 11-8, 11-8 but lost to Bryan 10-12-11-7, 11-2, 8-11, 7-11.
Bryan defeated Meusa 3-2 and Hopkinson 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-3, and 11-9.
In the women’s round robin competition Cummings played unbeaten to snatch the top spot.
She defeated Ambrose Thomas 11-8,11-5,11-3; Chelsea Edghill 11-8,11-6,6-11,10-12 , 11-7 and Akeicia Nedd 11-7,11-9,11-8.
Edghill defeated Nedd 11-9, 11-7, 11-8 and Thomas at 12-10, 11-4, 11-8 to claim the runner up spot while Nedd defeated Thomas, who was originally selected to be Guyana’s representative at the World Youth Olympics currently in progress in Singapore 11-8, 11-13, 11-8, 13-11.
