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There’s no more hope for Jason ‘Pipey’ Parris.
That’s because the favourite to win it all was ousted at the quarterfinal stage of the Hope for the Ghetto road tennis tournament by Dwaine Hope on Saturday night. Hope, a teacher at the Frederick Smith school, taught Parris a lesson at the Deighton ‘Pa’ Roach Facility at Bush Hall, defeating him 21-19,
ROAD TENNIS’ FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE.
Two teenagers and an 11-year-old prodigy are among the eight players remaining in the Hope for the Ghetto road tennis competition.
When the smoke cleared following the final matches of the round of 16 last night at the London Bourne Towers’ hard court, 17-year-old Tyrease Holder, 16-year-old Azarie Clarke and the pint-sized former primary school champion
Road tennis grand master Julian “Michael Jackson” White put on an exhibition of sheer class to stop a determined Dwaine Hope 21-9, 19-21, 21-12 when the Barbados Road Tennis Open round of 16 matches climaxed at Belfield on Sunday night. White, who qualified for a pay day of $2 000 and advanced to meet Kerry “TC” Francis in Thursday’s quarterfinals at Silver Hill, was close to his invincible best as …
The preliminaries of the Barbados Road Tennis Open tournament continued yesterday at the Belfield Road Tennis Court in Black Rock, St. Michael, with several players securing their places in the round of 64 to be contested at a later date.Among those was the top-rated Julian ‘Michael Jackson’ White with a comfortable, straight sets 21-6, 21-4 victory against Damien Millar in the two best of three sets encounter.After days of rain and cancellation of matches, the return of road tennis was much welcomed and almost all of the seven matches played last night ended quickly.White’s encounter against Millar was no different and it was just a case of how many points Millar could accumulate against the formidable White who made light work of his opponent.Millar failed to register at least ten points in either set and it took a total of four minutes and nine seconds for White to complete the job.The most competitive matchup of the night was between Anthony ‘Charlie’ Chase and Wayne McDo