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Led by Achinta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, India expectedly defeated Barbados 3-0 in their opening match in the Men's Team section of Commonwealth Games table tennis competitions at Hall 3 at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) at .
The men's and women's table tennis teams, the star-studded badminton line-up and the women's hockey team won their respective first-round matches as did boxer Shiv Thapa as India made a good start at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday.There .
Barbados’ table tennis ace Tyrese Knight is ready to take his game to the next level and who better to take him there than former United States national coach Jörg Bitzigelo who is based in San Francisco.The 21-year-old Knight for the past couple of months has been touring the United States and also Qatar where he featured in a special International Table Tennis Federation high-performance camp with his manager Sherdon Pierre.During a telephone interview with Barbados TODAY, Knight, a former Caribbean junior champion, said he was happy to be afforded this opportunity to train for two weeks with some of the world’s best in the United States.
Knight loses out on Olympic berth
Article by April 17, 2021
Tyrese Knight’s final shot to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, was a hard-fought one but in the end, he lost 4-1 to Andy Pereira of Cuba yesterday at the Salón Metropolitano Stadium in Rosario, Argentina.
Since March the 21-year-old has been taking on some of the world’s best for a place at the Olympics. Knight’s last opportunity to qualify was against Cuban Pereira, his toughest rival to date.
In the end, Knight was defeated 11-8, 11-7, 12-14, 11-7, 11-9 against a very experienced Pereira who is not only one of the best players in the continent but also an Olympian having attended the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.