National player Jonathan van Lange defeated Krystian Sahadeo in specially arranged U13 competition among national players at the West Demerara table tennis camp held recently.
Alexander De Abreu and Colin Wong were joint third.
The camp was sponsored by Payless Variety Store and was conducted by Muniram Persaud. According to a press release, the average daily attendance at the camp was 22 participants ranging from seven to 21 years old and at the conclusion of the camp, Issiah Sahadeo was named the Most valuable Player and Andell Austin, the Most Improved Player.
According to the release the participants were taught four basic strokes the backhand push, the forehand push, the backhand drive and the forehand drive.
Donna Ramkumar presented trophies to the respective winners at the conclusion of the competitions.
In other results, Krishun Deolall won the 11 years and under category with Aryan de Freitas second and, Dravid Manohar and Samson Sam, joint third while Austin won the 13 years and under category from John Rakumar.
Peter Persaud and Satish Ramnarine were joint third. Ken Sahadeo won the 15 years and under category from Tedanson Crawford with Wazim Ramanand and Joel Rajkumar joint third.
Issiah Sahadeo won the 18 years and under category from Khemraj Mohan with Stephon Smith and Jonathan Rajkumar joint third.
The 21 years and under category was won by Keron Patterson from Renaldo Griffith. Jonathan Anderson and Issiah Sahadeo were joint third.
