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Nov 03, 2022 Sports
QPCC Premiere PSA Squash Tournament
By Sean Devers in Trinidad
Kaieteur News – Played at the Racquet Centre at the Queen’s Park Cricket Club which was established in 1891, the first ever Professional Squash Association (PSA) tournament in Trinidad commenced on Tuesday night with the QPCC Premiere PSA Squash Tournament in Port of Spain.
Contested at a venue more famous for hosting cricket, the Challenger 5 level competition concludes on Saturday.
Colombia’s Andres Herrera is the top seed and comes into the tournament after reaching the final of the Greenwich Open and will aim to go one better on this Caribbean island and pocket the US$6,000 winner’s prize.
Two Guyanese; Jason Ray Khalil and Julian Chin will compete in their biggest tournament yet.
A few Caribbean players and the top eight seeds in the prestigious event will vie for the prize money.
Canada’s Cory McCartney, current World Junior Champion Rowan Dammin and the New Zealand duo of Anthony Lepper and Elijah Thomas along with Carlos Vargas, Noah Meredith and Maceo Levy round out the top eight seeds.
A large gathering of people from several Nationalities from around the world witnessed Trinidadian based Guyanese Chin go down to German Jan Wipperfort 11-5, 11-4, 11-3 in the first round action.
Chin, the son of Dr Walter Chin, now resides in Carnival Country and has represented Guyana on several occasions but on Tuesday night he was no match for the German.
The lanky Chin showed some fight in the first game as he engaged in a few fairly lengthy rallies but the German won the game 11-5.
There are six Trinidadians in this tournament but the Trini fans were urging him on but he lost the second game 11-4 before an exhausted looking Chin lost the third game 11-3 and the match 3-0.
The other Guyanese competing was Jason Ray
Khalil who played some excellent squash to beat Trinidadian Zachary Locquan 3-0.
Khalil was all over Loquan, whom he had beaten 3-0 in the Senior Caribbean Championships.
Khalil executed some well-timed back hand drives and drop shots as his opponent struggled to reach to ball to take the first game 11-2.
The brother of Caribbean Ladies Singles Champion, Ashley Khalil, Jason won the next two games 11-3, 11-4 to qualify for the second round in the main draw.
Khalil was scheduled to play his second game at 8pm last evening.
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