Isaac Kingham retained top spot in the boys’ category after weekend two of the National Series, while Ireland’s Anjali Singh (pictured above) topped the girls’ leaderboard after a three-way countback.
Unlike the first weekend, Kingham could not remain unbeaten as they won six of their seven matches in the Under-19 Division One. The defeat was as close as it could get, with 3-2 (7-11, 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 12-10) for Leo Nguyen.
Nguyen finished the weekend in third place after winning five and losing two – the same record as Wajid Wafiq, who won their head-to-head match in four to seal second place.
Wafiq was extended to 14-12 in the fifth by Aarav Parihar, while, among other close matches, Nguyen won in five against Parihar, Prayrit Ahluwalia and Francesco Bonato, and Kingham came from 2-0 down to beat Marcel Ndongala.
In Division Two, Jake Davidson won all seven matches, dropping just two, taking two wins to Angad Saggu and three to Janak Shah.
In the Under-19 Girls top division, weekend one winner Eva Eccles finished level with Singh and Catherine Lv as all three won four and lost two.
In the meetings between the top three, Eccles and Singh both defeated Lv in four, with Singh beating Eccles 3-2 (11-5, 12-14, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9).
Brooke Morris defeated Eccles in four and also beat Singh 3-2 (9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9, 11-5). Singh’s other defeat was 3-1 to Millie Noble. Noble, Morris and Maja Wojcicka all won three and lost three.
There was also a three-way tie in Division Two, with Mia Lakhani getting the countback judgement, ahead of Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska and Rachael Iles, who all won five and lost one.
In that ‘mini-group’ at the top, Lakhani defeated Rahmani-Walentynska, Iles defeated Lakhani and Rahmani-Walentynska defeated Iles, all in three games, reducing the points difference.
Oscar Nikolli led the Under-15 Boys’ Division One with six wins from seven, losing only to Rishaan Sawant in four.
Nikolli won no fewer than four five-setters – against Noah Byrne-Smith, Harrison Hill, Ryan Goodier and, in the closest finish, 12-10 in the fifth against Ryan Holland.
Sawant came in second, tied after five wins with Goodier, but after beating him in four. Despite beating the top two, Sawant lost to both Hill and Holland in five. He also had to dig deep to beat Byrne-Smith 3-2 (11-7, 5-11, 7-11, 12-10, 13-11).
In Division Two, Theo Kniep topped the table after he and Finley Aitken won four and lost one. Kniep defeated Aitken but lost to Mustafa Ibrahim. He also had to battle past Zaid Aldilimi in the fifth.
In Division Three, Soumyajit Dasgupta won all five of his matches to finish ahead of Charlton Ngitngit. The match between them was played in four games, but Dasgupta was taken to five by both William Richards and Parsia Ahsani.
Dhruv Datta won Division Four with six wins out of seven, one win more than both Taha Shamakh and Samvit Balaji.
Datta’s loss came in the fifth against Thomas Orbach Otterbu, but he won three other matches that went the distance, against Oscar Dixon, Mateusz Niedzielak and Daven Rawal.
Scotland’s Kiishi Adekola topped the Under-15 Girls’ top flight, winning all six matches, moving ahead of Hannah Saunders.
The match between the top two was decided 3-1 (9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 15-13) in favor of Adekola, who was brought to five by Assil Sarri in her first match.
Saunders sat quite comfortably in second place, but was bumped up to fifth by Alyssa Nguyen.
There was a three-way tie in Division Two which ended with Serene Rahmani-Walentynska on top, ahead of Hazel Lam and Cindy Xiao.
Rahmani-Walentynska lost 3-2 (11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8) to Lam, who in turn lost 3-2 (11-5, 6-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7) to Xiao. Rahmani-Walentynska’s victory in four over Xiao was the result that made the difference.
In Division Three, both Penny Muil and Zoe Gonpot took six of the seven wins. Wales’ Muil finished top after beating Gonpot in three. Muil’s defeat came in four to Chloe Kniep, while Gonpot won three games in the fifth.
In the top division of the Under-13 Boys competition, Malek Shamakh won six out of seven to finish ahead of Ronan Lamont Tierney, Saisuriya Prasanna Kumar and Li Hao Chen, who all won five.
Shamakh’s defeat came at the hands of Chen, in four games, but he only dropped three other games that day.
Lamont Tierney won twice in the fifth, against Tyler Shalson and Lusio Wen, but lost in a decider to Kumar. Chen defeated Kumar in the fifth, but lost 13-11 in the decider to Wen.
Gabriel Church led Division Two over Nayan Pattni, with boys having won six and lost one. It was 3-1 for Church when the two met. Church’s defeat came to Daniel Pavia in three.
Phoebe O’Brien won all six matches to top the table in Division One of the Under-13 Girls, above Bethany Yang.
It was a relatively one-sided 3-0 (6, 6, 9) when the top two met, but O’Brien was extended into fifth place by both Evie Turner-Samuels and Rabani Ahluwalia after coming from 2-0 down against Turner-Samuels to win 3-2 (7-11, 8-11, 14-12, 11-6, 11-8) in the first round.
Maisey Phillips won all six games to finish top of Division Two, dropping just three games all day. Two of those came for third-placed Darcey Parker, with Phillips coming from behind to win 3-2 (11-5, 8-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-3). Naomi Adeji finished second, partly thanks to a 3-2 win over Parker.
The final weekend of the National Series is January 24-25, 2026.
Results and tables
Boys under 19 years | Girls under 19 years old
Boys under 15 years | Girls under 15 years old
Boys under 13 years | Girls under 13 years old
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