South American Youth Games 2017 – Santiago, Chile

Oct 05, 2017 Sports, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...2017-santiago-chile/

Badminton players face tough run

The Guyanese Badminton Players, National & Caribbean Champions 15 Year Old Priyanna Ramdhani and 16 Year Old Tyrese Jeffrey faced tough opening action at the South American Youth Games in Santiago Chile which runs from September 26 to October 10, 2017.
The 17-years and under Badminton Championships playing at the Centro de Entrenamiento Olimpico started on Tuesday 03 of October and will run until Saturday October 7.
Fourteen countries are taking part in this Championship. The tournament is being played off in the Group Playoffs, Quarterfinals, Semi-finals & Finals.
There are 4-Groups where the first two winners in the group will go into the Quarter-Finals where the knock out system leading to the finals will come into effect.
In the Results:
In the Girls Round Robin Play off, Priyanna Ramdhani is in Group B with Chile, Suriname and Peru. She lost her first match to the No.1 Seeded player in the Group from CHILE- Micaela Flores: 21-9, 21-16. She then came back and defeated Suriname’s Erisa Bleau: 21-4, 21-8 in her second match.
Yesterday she was down to play a Chilean opponent and if she won, she will be in the Quarter-Finals.
In the Boys Round Robin Play Off, Tyrese Jeffrey is in Group A with Chile & Argentina.
He lost both matches to Alonso Medal of Chile: 21-4, 21-2 and to Mateo Delmastro of Argentina: 21-12, 21-4.
The other round-robin group matches for the Guyanese players will be the Mixed Doubles