Sean Stanley bags two national TT titles

SEAN STANLEY ROLLED back the years, as he won the men’s open singles and masters’ titles, while Romano Spencer and Caleb Howard were gifted the doubles title, when the National Table Tennis Championships ended last Saturday, at the West St George Secondary School.

Stanley, who is the founder and head coach of the Sean Stanley Table Tennis Academy and a former president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Table Tennis Association, bossed both categories, by defeating a long-time table tennis foe, in Robert Ballantyne on each occasion.

In the masters’ final, Stanley won over Ballantyne 6-11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8.

Before reaching the final, Stanley side-stepped David “Sky” Llewellyn 11-9 , 5-11, 11-4 , 11-8, while Ballantyne outlasted Khalique Bailey 11-6, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5.

Stanley, in the finals of the open segment, had the better of Ballantyne 11-6, 11-6, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-9.

The semi-finals matchups saw Stanley getting past Llewellyn 11-4, 7-11, 8-11, 11-8,11-8, 8-11, 11-4, and Ballantyne ousting Romano Spencer 11-8, 1311, 8-11, 11-2, 11-9.

It was a case, though, of Ballantyne going back on his word, as he told SEARCHLIGHT, last November, that he was done with competing at the national championships.

And, Caleb Howard and Romano Spencer won from Llewellyn and Damion Dublin by default.

It has been reported that Llewellyn declined to contest the final.

SEAN STANLEY hugging his champioship trophy