It’s a testament to the popularity of the London Academy Senior 2* that we have not had a single repeat champion this season. Our final Senior 2* of the season saw local player Gabriel Achampong tear through the entire competition for the loss of only one set.

That single set loss came in the quarter-finals to eBaTT’s Ben Levi, who had taken a break from dominating the U19 Boys to try his luck in the Senior Mixed. A semi-final win over another eBaTT player, Janak Shah, meant that Achampong would meet newcomer Mahmood Kelani in the final, after his straight sets win over eBaTT’s Rajiv Padman.

After a tight first set, the London Academy player found an extra gear to take the final two sets quickly for a 3-0 win.

In the Under-19 Boys, Janak’s brother Nishil faced off against Marcel Ndongola in the final. Despite a competitive match, Marcel’s greater power showed in a 3-1 victory.

Nishil was taken to five sets in the semi-final against late entrant Louis Alexander, whereas Marcel only needed four sets to see off Yacoub Rahmani-Walentynska in the other semi.

In the Under-19 Girls, Serene Rahmani-Walentynska took the first of two titles by coming top of a single group of five players.

On Sunday the Under-15 Boys saw Nishil Shah reach another final, this time facing off against Greenhouse’s Parsia Ahsani. Ashani won in four sets to take the title.

Both players had to overcome fierce local resistance in the quarter-finals. Nishil took five sets to see off Adam Riadi, but it was Parsia who had the biggest challenge from Yacoub Rahmani -Walentynska, who was 10-6 up in the fifth before the Greenhouse player clawed it back.

In the semi-finals, Shah dismantled Stefan Pop in three sets, while Ahsani beat third seed Adam Watson, also in three sets.

In the Under-15 Girls Serene won her second title of the weekend when she defeated Alexia Ciobanica in the final. Serene had reached the final by beating another London Academy player, Ruby Gandi Bamidele, in four sets. Alexia also needed four to beat Greenhouse’s Nylah Fernandez in the other semi-final.

The Under-13 Mixed saw an influx of talented players moving up from the U11 division. The best of these on the day was Fox’s Lev Sahmurov, who matched his schoolmate Nikolas Karavas by reaching the semi-finals. Both went out at this stage to the eventual finalists, Joshua Freeman and Jayden Xuan Chen.

The final was a tight, nervy affair. Jayden took a two-set lead before Joshua started to fight back to level the match at 2-2. The fifth set was a gripping affair with chances for both to win. In the end, Jayden took it 13-11.

In the Under-11 Mixed Jacob Vogl took full advantage of an open field by winning all four of his Division One matches to take the gold. Colin Ho took silver after a three-way countback which saw Odysseas Karaasev take the bronze.

Isabella Xiao Xu won the consolation division ahead of Sanav Sethi and Luca Turner in third place.