A three-member Saint Lucia team swept the 2025 LQ Classic Junior Table Tennis Tournament in Grenada at the weekend, winning the team title, boys’ doubles, girls’ doubles, boys’ singles, and girls’ singles.
Manie Eleuthere, Joshua Lubin, and Shatal Charles represented the nation against rivals from the Windward Islands. Seven teams were registered for the competition, which was played at the Grenada Youth Centre.
On the opening night, Friday, Saint Lucia won the mixed teams competition 3-0. They defeated Grenada in the final 3-0. Grenada’s B team finished in third place. Saint Lucia defeated St Vincent & the Grenadines B and Grenada A in the preliminaries, and Grenada B in the semifinals, all 3-0. Charles and Eleuthere played mixed doubles, Lubin and Charles singles.
Sunday’s U19 boys’ final was an all Saint Lucian affair as Eleuthere played Lubin. Eleuthere defeated Zayden Cyrus of St Vincent & the Grenadines 11-5, 11-8, 11-1 in the semifinal, while his fellow countryman and birthday boy Joshua Lubin defeated another Vincentian, LaMont Gregg 11-1, 11-1 11-3. In the final, Eleuthere won a great match 11-8, 12-10, 2-11, 11-8, 11-9.
In the boys’ doubles open title match, Eleuthere and Lubin came up against the St Vincent & the Grenadines pairing of LaMont Gregg and Macahlie Hazelwood, winning 11-9,11-4,11-5. The Saint Lucians defeated Aston / Shay of Dominica 11-8 11-2, 11-8 in the semifinals.
Charles, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States women’s champion at just 14 years old, beat an impressive Loukhya Ramraj of St Vincent & the Grenadines in both the Under-15 and Under-19 girls’ finals.
Charles went untested in the U15, as she defeated Treasurer Frederick (GND/Convent) 11-2, 11-1, 11-1, and in the U19 she beat Jessica McCarter (SVG) (11-4, 11-3, 11-7). In the finals, she won 11-2, 11-1, 11-3 for the U15 title, and 11-2, 11-4, 11-4, 11-6 for U19.
Charles teamed up with Frederick from Grenada to win the girls’ doubles final.
