Female national and Caribbean badminton champion Priyanna Ramdhani continued her impressive start to 2020 by copping another international medal while her brother Narayan was also a podium finisher following the duo’s participation in last weekend’s 2019/2020 ACAC Badminton tournament in Alberta, Canada.
Priyanna recently clinched silver in the women’s Open singles A-division category of the 2020 Honolulu Tournament held in Hawaii earlier in the year. She then returned to Canada and placed third in the women’s singles of the ACAC tournament held at King’s University.
The young woman got a bye in the first round and qualified for the quarterfinals where she defeated Kaitlyn Gee of Nait 21-4, 21-7, however, the Guyanese was stopped in the semis by Johnna Rymes 21-9, 21-4 before downing Cecilia Wolski 21-11, 21-13 in the third-place match.
Narayan, on the other hand, collected two third place medals in the men’s singles and doubles categories, respectively.
In the singles category, Narayan defeated Smit Patel 21-13, 21-16 in the third place to collect bronze; earlier, he went down to Raymond Kim 21-18, 21-17 in the semi-finals.
He went on to team up with his King’s University teammate to win bronze in the doubles category.
