Robert Bailey, Freelance Writer

Davia Reid and Sean White captured the boys' and girls' Under-10 singles titles, on the opening day of the Jamaica Table Tennis Association's annual National Championships, at the G.C. Foster College in Spanish Town, yesterday.

Reid easily dispatched Matthew-Ann Dawson 11-9, 11-9, 11-6, while White defeated Matthew McNair 11-4, 11-5, 11-8.

Reid, who is a student at the Pembroke Hall Primary, was delighted.

"I feel proud of myself that I have won the competition because it wasn't easy at first to win it," she said.

White was also delighted with his success.

"I am very happy that I have won because at the start of the match I didn't feel like I was going to win," he said.

"I used all my techniques and all the things that my coach taught me during training and it paid off," White added.

The three-day tournament, which ends tomorrow, continues today with the finals of parish competition.

'I used all my techniques and all the things that my coach taught me during training and it paid off.' - White