The fourth major local squash tournament for the year, the Playfair Ltd. / Federal Bookmakers Barbados Squash Open, got underway on Monday night, June 19th at the Barbados Squash Club (BSC).
All but one of the top seeded players on show last night cruised through their respective first round matches in the Men’s A and Ladies divisions. The sole exception was the #6 seeded Marlon White who failed to show for his match against the top OECS under-19 player, Shane Slater from St. Vincent, and lost by default. The unlucky Tim O?Neal, a local national team prospect, unfortunately sustained a nasty knee injury earlier in the day and had to withdraw from the tournament at the last minute.
In the Men’s B preliminary round there were impressive wins for two left handed players: Sylvester Nurse comfortably defeated local U-17 player, Ryan Foster in straight games, while another U-17 schoolboy, Ciaran Raymer came back to defeat the experienced Michael Best in four games after dropping the first.
Full results from Day 1 on June 19th were as follows (all players from Barbados unless stated otherwise):
Ladies 1st Round: #8 Nadia McCarthy defeated Carla Jackson 5/9 9/5 10/8 9/6
Ladies 1st Round: #3 Lilianna White defeated Tracy Roett 9/3 9/1 9/4
Ladies 1st Round: #4 Victoria Lust (England) defeated Edna Corbette 9/1 9/3 9/2
Ladies 1st Round: #7 Cheri-Ann Parris defeated Zoe Lisk 9/0 9/0 9/0
Ladies 1st Round: #6 Chantelle Day (Cayman) defeated Maia Blackman 9/1 9/1 9/1
Ladies 1st Round: #2 Sonia Perkins defeated Paula Yarde 9/0 9/3 9/1
Men’s A – 1st Round: #1 Shawn Badrinath (Guyana) defeated Craig Archer 9/0 9/1 9/3
Men’s A – 1st Round: #8 Nigel Griffith defeated Tim O?Neal by default
Men’s A – 1st Round: #5 Colin Ramasra (Trinidad) defeated Steven Miller 9/4 9/3 9/6
Men’s A – 1st Round: #4 Steve Smith (Jamaica) defeated John Cumberbatch 9/1 9/2 10/8
Men’s A – 1st Round: #3 Shawn Simpson defeated Fabian Goodridge 9/1 9/4 9/6
Men’s A – 1st Round: Shane Slater (St. Vincent) defeated #6 Marlon White by default
Men’s A – 1st Round: #7 Fabien Magne (France) defeated Don Benn 9/0 9/5 9/1
Men’s A – 1st Round: #2 Gavin Cumberbatch defeated Alex Garcia 9/3 9/5 9/2
Men’s B – Preliminary Round: Sylvester Nurse defeated Ryan Foster 9/0 9/3 9/1
Men’s B – Preliminary Round: Ciaran Raymer defeated Michael Best 7/9 9/5 9/5 9/5
Matches continue from 5:00 p.m. each night until Friday June 23rd at the BSC [427-7913]. All finals will be contested between noon and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, June 24th.
