Alyssa Nguyen and Teagan Khazal won the titles as the Mark Bates Ltd U11 & U13 National Championships came to a close at WV Active Wolverhampton.

Top seed Nguyen beat Laura North in the final to retain the title she won last year, while third seed Khazal stepped up from winning the U10 trophy last year as he defeated Lewis Wu.

Archway Peterborough had three players on the girls’ podium as bronze medallists Amber Lemmon and Cindy Xiao joined club-mate North.

The bronze medals in the boys’ competition went to Pablo Ramirez Rioja and Nishil Shah.

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Under-11 Girls’ Singles

Alyssa Nguyen beat Laura North 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 11-7) in the final to take the gold medal and retain her under-11 title.

The bronze medallists were both from Archway Peterborough – Cindy Xiao was beaten 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-7) by North in one semi-final, while the other saw Nguyen defeat Amber Lemmon 3-0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-4).

North had defeated second seed and Archway Peterborough club-mate Hannah Saunders in a dramatic quarter-final which both players had chances to win before North came through 3-2 (14-12, 7-11, 11-5, 6-11, 13-11).

The other quarter-finals were decided in three – Nguyen overcoming Chloe Kniep (5, 7, 2), Lemmon getting past Zoe Gonpot (3, 3, 2) and Xiao beating Inaya Zasella (3, 5, 10).

Group stage

Cindy Xiao won Group 3 and Chloe Kniep was second as neither of the top two ranked players went through.

Xiao won two matches in the fifth – against Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska (9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 10-12, 11-8) and against Kniep (11-8, 5-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8).

Kniep also beat Rahmani-Walentynska in five – the score in that one was 9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 4-11, 11-8 – by the beaten player did win one match which went the distance, 8-11, 11-2, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9) against Assil Sarri.

Amber Lemmon won Group 4 as expected and without dropping a set, and was joined in the knockouts by Inaya Zasella.

The closest match in the group was between Zasella’s two London Academy colleagues Donika Aliu and Serene Rahmani-Walentynska, which was edged by the latter, 3-2 (11-9, 9-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-9).

No problem for top seed Alyssa Nguyen in Group 1 and she was joined in the knockouts by Laura North, who won her other four matches, including a fine comeback 3-2 (9-11, 9-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-2) victory over Sophie Howe and another five-set win against Violet-Lily Marquis – that one by a scoreline of 11-7, 11-4, 8-11, 4-11, 11-8.

The top seed also came through at a canter in Group 2 as Hannah Saunders topped the standings, ahead of Zoe Gonpot.

Gonpot won two matches in five, beating Chantelle Leather 3-2 (11-8, 8-11, 11-4, 8-11, 11-7) and Evie Turner-Samuels 3-2 (12-10, 11-7, 6-11, 11-13, 11-8).

Leather won a five-setter against Turner-Samuels (11-7, 11-9, 5-11, 12-14, 11-5) and Zouzou Bruges also prevailed in a decider against Ruby Bamidele (11-4, 6-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-9).

Under-11 Boys’ Singles

Last year’s under-10 champion Teagan Khazal took the title the hard way, winning his quarter-final, semi-final and final in five games.

The third seed was up against Lewis Wu in the final. He had beaten him 3-1 in the group stage but this time it was closer, Khazal winning it 3-2 (6-11, 11-4, 11-8, 5-11, 11-8).

In the semi-finals, Khazal won a spellbinding match against top seed Pablo Ramirez Rioja 12-10 in the decider.

Ramirez Rioja brilliantly saved two match points at 8-10, but netted in attempting to save a third as Khazal completed a 3-2 (11-4, 10-12, 11-7, 7-11, 12-10) victory in which he also picked up a yellow card at the end of the second.

The other semi-final saw Wu come through in four against Nishil Shah, who worked his way into the match and won the third, saving match points, but could not grab the initiative as Wu won it 3-1 (11-1, 11-6, 12-14, 12-10).

Khazal had to dig deep in the quarter-finals too, having trailed Charles Donald 2-0. He won a tight third and that shifted the momentum in his favour as he went on to take the match 3-2 (10-12, 10-12, 13-11, 11-4, 11-3).

Ramirez Rioja recovered from losing the first game to defeat Wilson Zheng 3-1 (4-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-3), while the other two matches were decided in three as Shah beat Noah Byrne-Smith (7, 3, 7) and Wu overcame Ryan Goodier (3, 5, 3).

Group stage

Second seed Theo Kniep dramatically exited the competition at the first stage as he was beaten in two five-game matches in Group 2.

The first to overcome him was Ryan Goodier, who withstood a comeback to win 3-2 (11-7, 11-8, 10-12, 4-11, 11-8), and Wilson Zheng then took their meeting 3-2 (7-11, 13-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8).

Goodier won the group thanks to a 3-1 (11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8) victory over Zheng, who went through in second place having also defeated Zaid Aldilimi in five (7-11, 11-9, 10-12, 11-8, 11-9).

The top two positions were reversed in Group 4 as second-ranked Nishil Shah got above Charles Donald.

The only five-set match in the group was when the two met, and it was Shah who took it 3-2 (9-11, 12-10, 11-7, 3-11, 11-6).

Teagan Khazal and Lewis Wu went through as expected from Group 3, though Khazal had to recover a 2-1 deficit to beat Li Hao Chen 3-2 (6-11, 11-3, 12-14, 11-4, 11-7).

Chen also lost in five against Dimitar Dimitrov (12-10, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8), who in turn lost in five against Noam Levi (11-9, 11-8, 7-11, 5-11, 12-10) . . . who in turn lost 3-2 (11-8, 9-11, 9-11, 12-10, 11-5) to Charlton Ngitngit.

In Group 1, top see Pablo Ramirez Rioja was in charge throughout and the second-ranked player Noah Byrne-Smith joined him in the knockouts.

There were two five-game matches, which saw Harrison Hill defeat Rowan Kumar 3-2 (11-8, 10-12, 10-12, 11-5, 12-10) but lose 3-2 (10-12, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9) to Oscar Nikolli.