National men’s champion Christopher Franklin along with Chelsea Edghill and Treance Lowe captured individual bronze medals in the singles category of the 60th edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) Senior Championships in Jamaica which concluded last evening.
The trio, after working their way into the semi-finals of the championship were all stopped from progressing at that very stage.
For Franklin, he was defeated by Samuel Galvez of the Dominican Republic 9 -11, 10-12, 9-11, 5-11 to end a spirited title run which landed him a well-deserved bronze medal.
Edghill, on the other hand, lost to Eva Brito of the Dominican Republic in straight sets 9-11, 3-11, 6-11, 2-11 as she collected her second bronze of the championship to go along with her women under -21 gold.
The Dominicans continued to spoil Guyana’s outing after eventual winner Yasiris Ortiz defeated Trenace Lowe in the other semi-final by a narrow 3-4 margin.
Ortiz took the first set 11-4 before the Guyanese struck back to win the second 14-12.
Ortiz then collected the next two set 11-5, 11-4 as Lowe took to it three games apiece by winning the 5th and 6th sets 11-8, 11-5 before she missed out on a shot at gold by dropping the final set 11-13 to the champion.
