TT badminton stars out Peru Open

TRINIDAD and Tobago top badminton players Anil Seepaul and Sabrina Cassie bowed out of the VIII Peru Open International Championships which is currently being staged in the capital city Lima.

Four-time national men’s champion Seepaul and Peru’s teenaged sensation lost their men’s doubles quarter-finals match against the highly-rated Germany pair of Joachim Teshe and Jochen Cassel 15-9, 15-8. And nine-time women queen Cassie and United States’ Tina Taft, pairing for the first time, were beaten by Peru’s Sandra Jimeno and Doriena Riveiro, the championships number two seeded pair, 4-15 11-15. in their ladies doubles quarter-final. And in the mixed doubles ‘quarters’, the Seepaul/Cassie tandem succumbed to Peru’s top-rated pair of Rodrigo Pacheco and Lorena Blanco 5-15, 10-15.