{"id":344222,"date":"2025-12-14T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:27:09","slug":"ryan-chin-makes-winning-start-to-rbc-jr-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344222\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Chin makes winning start to RBC Jr Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/category\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/reporter\/jonathan_ramnanansingh\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tJonathan Ramnanansingh<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 Hrs Ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23225304-825x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Junior tennis player Jovan Garibana. - Newsday File Photo\/Angelo Marcelle\"\/>Junior tennis player Jovan Garibana. &#8211; Newsday File Photo\/Angelo Marcelle<\/p>\n<p>TOP seeds in the boys\u2019 Under-10 and Under-18 singles divisions notched opening round wins when action served off in the RBC Junior Tennis Tournament at the National Racquet Centre in Tacarigua on December 13. <\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Ryan Chin had a winning start to the U10 after pulling off a 2-1 result over Hugh Hadeed. Chan won the opening set but went down 2-4 in the next. He was pushed to the limit in the tie-break but prevailed 12-10 to seal the win. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, third seed Zephaniah Scipio clawed back from an opening set loss to defeat Lucas Young 2-1. Scipio lost the first set 2-4 but rallied back to win the second 4-2, before pulling off an 11-9 victory in the tie-break. <\/p>\n<p>Sealing a U10 division two wins were James Rostant, with a 4-1, 5-3 triumph over Collin Chan and Liam Gaston-Johnston beat Christopher Craig 4-0, 4-0.  In the U18, second seed Christopher Khan cruised past Javed Dowlat 6-1, 6-0 and third seed Jovan Garibana defeated Jaiden Gormandy 6-1, 6-0. Oliver Harrigan also got past Jacob Jacelon 6-2, 1-6, 12-10. <\/p>\n<p>In the girls\u2019 U14, Keyah Roberts outplayed Jadia-Marie Highly 6-2, 6-1; Anaya Roberts conquered Destine\u2019E Antoine 6-1, 6-3, Annabelle Stanislaus bettered Reena Dougdeen 6-0, 6-0; while Teijha Wellington triumphed 6-0, 6-3 over Laurielle Williams. <\/p>\n<p>Matches continue on December 14. <\/p>\n<p>Other Results<\/p>\n<p>Boys<\/p>\n<p>U12 \u2014 Holden Hadeed def. Cian Cliffoed 4-2, 4-0 <\/p>\n<p>U14 \u2014 Luke Bellamy def. Oliver Khan 7-6(6), 6-4; Ryan Steuart def. Paul Devaux 6-1, 6-1; Adam Arjoon def. Tedros Charles 6-3, 6-1; Dylan Clifford def. Alejandro De Roche 6-1, retired<\/p>\n<p>Division Two<\/p>\n<p>Girls <\/p>\n<p>U10 \u2014 Lucca Gaston-Johnston def. Ivy Stone 5-4(2), 4-0; Kayiel Manoo def. Melys Bethel 5-3, 4-0; Kenya Jacque def. Sara Rajkumar 4-0, 4-1<\/p>\n<p>Juinor \u2014 Sidrah Mohammed def. Paige Latchmansingh 4-2, 1-4, 10-8<\/p>\n<p>Boys<\/p>\n<p>Justin Caesar def. Nathan Whittier 4-2, 4-2; Kalyan Manoo def. Thiago Harricharan 4-1, 4-0; Syreane Gordon def. Nketchi Patrick 4-2, 4-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh 2 Hrs Ago Junior tennis player Jovan Garibana. &#8211; Newsday File Photo\/Angelo Marcelle TOP seeds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-344222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}