Rheann Chung, Catherine Spicer and Aleena Edwards each won once to earn the Trinidad and Tobago women's team a 3-2 victory over Guernsey and the top spot in Group O, at the World Team Table Tennis Championships, in Dortmund, Germany, yesterday.

T&T played unbeaten in the five-team Fourth Division group.

In the clash with Guernsey, Edwards lost the opener, the nine-time national women's singles champion going under in three straight games to Alice Loveridge.

T&T, though, were quickly back on level terms, thanks to Chung's 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 dismissal of Dawn Morgan.

Spicer beat Elizabeth Priest 11-7, 11-9, 11-3 to send T&T ahead for the first time.

But Loveridge then got the better of Chung 3-1 to tie up the match at two wins apiece.

In the decider, Edwards bounced back from a game down to outlast Morgan 3-11, 11-6, 11-9, 16-14, securing victory for T&T and a perfect 4-0 record in Group O.

In an earlier contest, T&T defeated Kosovo 3-1.

Chung, who celebrated her 27th birthday yesterday, won twice, beating both Xhemile Hasani and Amare Janjeva in straight games.

Spicer was also in winners' row for T&T, the 17-year-old player getting the better of Ilirjana Haliti 11-9, 11-7, 11-9. Janjeva recorded Kosovo's lone success, a 3-0 defeat of Edwards.

There were also two victories yesterday for the T&T men.

First, they got past Kyrgyzstan 3-1, France-based Dexter St Louis leading the charge with straight-games dismissals of Rusian Kultaev and Alisher Iakupbaev.

Curtis Humphreys chipped in with a 3-1 triumph over Iakupbaev.

The lone blemish for T&T was Terell Abbott's 3-2 defeat at the hands of Azamat Ergeshov.

Abbott, though, found his winning touch against Faroe Islands, the Tobago player crushing Paetur Albinus 11-2, 11-6, 11-6 to complete a 3-0 victory for T&T in the Fifth Division Group S fixture.

In earlier match-ups, Humphreys stopped Frodi Jensen 11-6, 6-11, 11-2, 11-1, and St Louis crushed Hallur Thorsteinsson at 1, 4 and 4.

T&T square off against Liberia today, in their final Group S contest.

-Kwame Laurence

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