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By Ian Marshall Impressively in Guatemala, Juan Jesus Gomez partnered Dario Arce to junior boys’ doubles gold and Arantxa Cossio to the mixed doubles top prize, before securing the boys’ singles title. In Cuenca, alongside Dario Arce, he has advanced to the men’s doubles semi-final round where Ecuador’s Emiliano Riofrio and Rodrigo Tapia await; likewise […]

By Ian Marshall A qualification schedule in which players finishing in first and second positions in each of three groups advanced directly to the quarter-finals, the two further places being decided by a preliminary round involving the remaining players, Geovanny Coello and Juan Jesus Gomez were very much the players in form. They emulated Shemar […]

By Ian Marshall In his opening group phase match, he beat fellow Ecuadorian, 22-year-old John Espinoza in seven games, the closest match of the day (11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 11-5), prior to rather more comfortably ending the day by overcoming Puerto Rico’s Yadir Lopez (11-8, 11-5, 11-8, 11-7). Most certainly experienced counted as […]