The two defending Premier Division champions have some work to do to retain their titles after weekend one of the Youth British Clubs League.
Fusion defeated Grantham Academy in the boys’ top flight, while Grantham College led the way in the girls’ division after beating London Academy.
More than 360 players were in action at the Derby Arena and the Draycott & Long Eaton TTC satellite venue, with 10 boys divisions and five girls competitions.
Team of the Weekend awards went to BATTS boys and Ormeau girls, while the respective Player of the Weekend awards went to Fusion’s Peadar Sheridan and London Academy’s Lianna Shilani Tousi.
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Boys’ departments
Fusion inflicted defeat on defending champions Grantham Academy in the final round of the competition Premier League, ending their opponents’ 100% record and leapfrogging them to the top of the table at the end of the weekend.
Larry Trumpauskas was the architect of the victory. He defeated Isaac Kingham in three points and then won against Abraham Sellado 3-2 (11-7, 11-8, 3-11, 3-11, 11-7). That win put Fusion ahead 3-1 and they secured the match win when Francesco Bonato defeated Joseph Dennison in four.
Peadar Sheridan scored the other Fusion point, beating Dennison in a two-way battle.
The south Londoners sit top of the table with just one point, having previously drawn 3-3 with Woodford Wells, against whom Benjamin Zijadic won twice. The second of these made the match 2-2. Bonato then defeated Sinan Surensoy, but Adam Alibhai’s 3–0 win over Sheridan earned Woodford a point.
The only remaining points Woodford dropped came in the defeat to Grantham, so they are handily still a point behind in third place, four points ahead of the rest.
It is Zijadic who is at the top of the averages and has won 9 out of 10 matches.
Kingfisher are the undefeated leaders of Division One, two points ahead of Ellenborough after winning four and drawing one.
The draw was against London Academy, for whom Wajid Wafiq won twice and led 3-2 when Shahuraj Nimse defeated Ryan Chung 3-2 (12-10, 11-9, 14-16, 6-11, 11-8). Prayrit Ahluwalia’s victory over Yacoub Rahmani-Walentynska, who was playing, secured the point for Kingfisher.
Ahluwalia leads the averages – of the regular players – with 9/10.
Drumchapel Glasgow won all five matches – losing only one individual match when they were in the lead Division Two with a three-point lead over eBaTT II.
The dropout occurred in the first match of the weekend, when eBaTT’s Oscar Nikolli defeated Rory Thomson 3-0 (11-4, 11-9, 11-6). EBaTT drew their second match, 3-3 against Draycott II, but was 100% after that.
It’s no surprise that Drumchapel dominates the averages, with Ben Hart and Joe Mulhern all completing perfect weekends with 10/10.
The third series of EBaTT is at the top Division Three and unbeaten, with three wins and two draws, putting them two points ahead of Brighton and Crosby High.
The leaders dropped a point against St Marys Stars on Saturday and also against Brighton on Sunday – leading 2-0 but trailing 3-2 in the latter, before Kai Shalson defeated Angus Priestley-Tonner 14-12 in the fifth to maintain the unbeaten record.
Among the regulars, Greenhouse’s Angad Saggu had the best record, winning nine of his ten matches.
Ormeau was perfect in it Division Four as they won all five matches, while losing only three individual draws. They already seem ready for the title, as they are five points ahead of three teams who all have records of W2, D1, L2.
Leading the pack was Christopher Allsop, who won all ten of his matches, just one more than teammate Aaditya Singh and Noah Levens of Grantham Academy IV.
There are two undefeated teams Division Five, where Cippenham edged Crosby High B by one point, having won four and drawn one, while Crosby won three and drew two.
The meeting between the two took place in the second round and Cippenham came from 2-0 and 3-1 down to force a draw, with Saisuriya Prasanna Kumar equaling Crosby’s Joseph Ilia by grabbing a double.
No one could beat Britannia’s Alexander Graham, who won all ten matches and thus exceeded the averages.
Division Six is led by Archway Peterborough with a 100 percent record, three points ahead of Draycott III.
Archway won each match by at least 5-1, while Draycott also dropped a point in a 3-3 draw against Kidlington Forum.
In the averages, Kai Lun Chow and Zihan Lin were unbeatable for the leaders, both with a perfect 10/10.
Fusion III and Ashford share leadership of the eight-person team Division seven, They have both won four and drawn one – they are one point ahead of Brighton II.
The eventual top two met in the first round which ended 3-3, Ashford leading 2-0 and 3-1 before Fusion fought back.
He tops the division averages of Brighton’s Ziad El-Hassan, who won all eight.
Division Eight had no draw and the W column reads 5-4-3-2-1-0, with Jersey setting the pace ahead of Bristol Academy II.
Jersey recovered from 2-0 down when they met Bristol, with William Cornthwaite’s 3-2 win over William Richards in match five proving crucial.
Both players won nine of their 1-0 matches, as did Jersey player Theo De Poerck.
Worthing led Woodford Wells II by two points after winning all five matches Division Nine.
It was 5-1 when the top two met. Woodford’s Louis Green defeated John Le Fondre en route to a 9/10 record this weekend, although Worthing duo Oliver Jordan and Yiwei He both have 100% records from eight and six games respectively.
Girls’ divisions
London Academy faces a battle for the Premier League title which they have won in each of the last three seasons, while they sit two points behind Grantham College after weekend one.
Grantham are unbeaten and their only negative was the 3-3 draw against London in the last round. They trailed 2-1 but led 3-2 thanks to Hannah Silcock’s double, but London’s Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska beat Lowri Hurd in four to rescue a point for her side.
London being two points behind the leaders is the result of a 5-1 defeat to Cippenham – who finished the weekend on 7 points alongside the Academy – in round two.
Cippenham pulled away from 1-1, with Rachael Iles and Alyssa Nguyen both recording doubles. There were no five-setters, but some close games, with Cippenham winning six of eight, which went to deuce.
Grantham won their other four matches and led my Hannah Silcock’s perfect 10 wins, putting her two ahead of Hurd and Iles in the averages.
Draycott II has a two-point lead over Ormeau Division One, with both teams undefeated.
They drew against each other, with Ormeau leading 2-0 and 3-2 in a match where five of the six ties went to a decider. That included the final match, in which Millie Noble secured a draw for Draycott with an 11-5, 7-11, 3-11, 13-11, 12-10 win over Niamh Mason.
Ormeau also drew with London Academy II and Northern Girls, while Draycott won their other four matches.
The averages show Northern’s Mia Longman on top with eight out of eight, while Noble won 9/10 ahead of Draycott.
Drumchapel Glasgow II carried everything before it Division Two with five wins, putting them four points ahead of Graham Spicer II and London Academy III.
They dropped just one individual match on Saturday, but it was closer on Sunday when they won 4-2 against Spicers and by the same score against Draycott III. It was tied 2-2 at one point in both matches as Chui-Que Wong won twice for Spicers and Jessica Tansur did the same for Draycott.
Wong won nine out of 10, leaving Spicers highest in the regular players’ averages, although London Academy’s Siabella Xiao Xu is top on 6/6.
Kingfisher lead Division Three and are unbeaten, although they have drawn twice, and are therefore level with Ellenborough, who won four but lost one.
Kingfisher defeated Ellenborough, but drew against both Scarborough and Highfield Titans, although they led the former 3–1 and were three down against the latter.
Blitz’s Senuli Ranasinghe won all eight of her matches to stay ahead of Kingfisher’s Heilam Tse (9/10) in the averages.
Jersey and Ormeau II are at the top Division Four After each winning four and drawing one, Jersey remained undefeated. Jersey is at the top in terms of sets difference.
Ormeau twice led the meeting between the top two but then trailed 3-2 before Lea Gal defeated Ella Devlin to seal a point for the Irish side.
Jersey’s Freya Allaway had a perfect 10/10 weekend, leading the averages ahead of teammate Ruby Devlin, who lost just once in 10.
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