TABLE TENNIS

“Whether you agree with him or not, he was a fighter, fighting for his rights.”

Aaron Edwards, coach of this country’s senior team at the just concluded 62nd Caribbean Table Tennis Federation Senior Championship at the Pabexpo Coliseum, in Havana, Cuba has called for an urgent return of national training programmes.

A memorial   service   for   the   late   Dexter St Louis   will   be   held   on   Wednesday at the Mt Pisgah Spiritual  Baptist Church , John   Street, Chaguanas .   Starting   time   is   6pm.   Members   of   the   public   wishing to   pay their last respects are invited to attend.

The COVID-19 pandemic has postponed almost everything worldwide in recent months; table tennis enthusiasts throughout the Caribbean eagerly await the moment when they can hold a racket again.

France-based top T&T women's ta­ble ten­nis play­er, Rheann Chung earned a tick­et to this sum­mer's Pan Amer­i­can Games Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment when she qual­i­fied on the third at­tempt at the Latin Amer­i­can Ta­ble Ten­nis Union and North Amer­i­can Ta­ble Ten­nis Union Qual­i­fy­ing Tour­na­ment for the Pan Amer­i­can Games in Guatemala City, Guatemala, yes­ter­day.