Fourteen-year-old Barbadian squash sensation Meagan Best caused a spectacular upset Tuesday on Day 2 of the 24th Caribbean Senior Squash Championships at the Queen’s Park Squash Complex in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, when she defeated the No.2 seed Ashley Khalil of Guyana in straight games. She became the youngest ever female finalist in the history of the event which was first held in 1977.
Best has enjoyed much success this year, winning the Barbados U-15 and U-17 titles in March, then becoming the youngest ever national ladies squash champion in April, and then winning her fourth straight Caribbean age group title last month in the Caribbean U-15 final in Cayman Islands, while helping the Barbados girls team clinch their second successive team gold medal at the 34th Caribbean Junior Squash Championships.
Meagan Best
But this achievement in Trinidad and Tobago is her greatest thus far.
Seeded at No. 3/4 at this event, the powerfully built Best stormed to an emphatic 11-6, 11-5, 11-4 victory over the reigning Caribbean U-19 junior champion, Larissa Wiltshire of Guyana, in their quarterfinal match in the morning and then returned in the evening’s semifinal to emphatically dispatch the No. 2 seed from Guyana, Ashley Khalil, 11-7, 11-5, 11-5 to reach her first ever Caribbean senior ladies final and in so doing became the youngest ever player to do so.
Best’s opponent in this evening’s women’s final was Barbados’ top player for the last 15 years, Karen Meakins, the top seed and three-time defending Caribbean ladies champion, who reached her record 10th successive Caribbean final after two fairly routine victories yesterday.
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