Barbados’ struggles continue at Table Tennis Championships

Barbados endured a tough morning as the ITTF-Americas Central American and Caribbean Championships continued in the Dominican Republic.

Competing during round of 32 action in the mixed doubles competition, Barbadians Angela Reid and Romario Gill were defeated by Samirah Munoz and Edgardo Sanchez of El Salvador, 11-4,11-7,11-5.

Barbados’ duo of Anthonette Riley and Mark Dowell also exited the competition, going down in straight sets defeat to their Guatemalan opponents Lucia Cordero and Sergio Carrillio, 11-5, 11-3, 11-5.

Mark Dowell (PHOTO CREDIT: Barbados Table Tennis Association)

These results came after Tyrese Knight and Mark Dowell recorded wins for Barbados in the singles competition on Sunday.

Knight battled to an 11-5, 8-11,11-9,11-9 victory over Jorge Buenrostro of Mexico. Tre Riley won the first game of his encounter against Fernando Alfaro of El Salvador, before ultimately losing 3-1, Dowell lost by a similar margin to St Lucia’s De Andre Calderon, while Cuba’s Daniela Fonseca defeated Barbadian Angela Reid 3-0. 

Knight clinched his second win of the day, when he defeated Trinidad and Tobago’s Mekhi Simmons 11-5, 11-4, 11-4, while Riley lost again, this time to Adrian Perez of Cuba in straight sets. Dowell battled to a 11-4,11-9, 7-11,11-13, 11-9 win over Guyana’s Niran Bissu, while Anthonette Riley was defeated by Clio Barcenas of Mexico.

Gill lost to Mexico’s Marcos Madrid, while Tyrese Knight returned to beat Caleb Howard of St Vincent and the Grenadines 11-2,11-5,11-4.

The evening closed with further singles defeats for Riley, Dowell, and Reid.

(KH)