Defending women’s individual champion Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes will be going all out to successfully defend her senior Caribbean women’s singles title when the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squ
ash Championships powered by Powerade and Smalta gets underway at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts with the commencement of the individual competition.
The tournament, which ends this Saturday, will also involve play in the men and women’s team competitions.
Participants from Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, OECS along with the hosts Guyana will be involved in the week long tournament.
The world ranked Fernandes is expected to be challenged by Karen Meakins for the women’s title while the defending men’s individual champion Jamaican Chris Binnie like Fernandes is the early favourite to repeat as men’s singles champion.
Binnie, though is expected to be challenged by Guyanese players Sunil Seth, Richard Chin and Alec Arjoon, Cameron Stafford of the Cayman Islands and Gavin and Bryant Cumberbatch of Barbados.
Trinidad & Tobago are the defending men’s team champions and Barbados are the defending women’s and veterans’ team champions.
The three main title sponsors for the tournament are Digicel, Banks DIH and Ansa Mc Al.
