London Academy matched their achievement of last year as they won five titles at the Jack Petchey London Schools Team Finals.

Their squads claimed victory in both boys’ and girls’ categories in the Under-11 and Under-16 age groups, plus the Under-13 Girls’ competition.

St Paul’s School won the Under-13 Boys’ title, while Wallington High School for Girls and King Edward VI Grammar won the respective girls’ and boys’ contests at Under-19 level.

Click here to check out team photos from the event, which was held at the Jean Brown Indoor Arena in Redbridge.

Under-11 Girls

London Academy recovered from losing the first match of the final against Fox Primary, taking the title as Darcey Parker won both her matches.

Mia Sebba put Fox ahead by defeating Rea Kola 11-2, 11-7, but Parker levelled as she beat Matilda Hopkins 11-7, 11-8.

Sara Maslina came from behind to beat Katerina Kasimata 9-11, 11-7, 11-5 to put London Academy in front, and Kola & Parker then won the doubles 11-5, 9-11, 13-11 against Sebba & Hopkins. Parker’s 11-7, 13-11 victory over Sebba clinched the trophy, though Kasimati had the last word for Fox with a 7-11, 11-6, 14-12 win over Kola.

In the semi-finals, London Academy defeated St Joseph’s 7-0, and it was the same margin for Fox against St Edward’s

Under-11 Boys

London Academy completed an age-group double but did not have things all their own way in the final, against Churchfields.

Dominic Rimmy put the Academy ahead by beating Adam Aziz 11-4, 11-7, but Lucas Marks hit back for Churchfields with a 12-10, 11-9 scoreline against Kiasha Beheshti.

David Ciurea and David Luca Dobrita beat Arjun Nair and Xavi Mohammed respectively and Rimmy then won a crucial match against Marks 9-11, 11-5, 11-6.

Aziz beat Ciurea 11-7, 11-5 to delay the result, but Beheshti’s 11-6, 11-3 victory over Mohammed clinched a 5-2 overall win for London Academy.

It was the same score for London Academy in the semi-finals as they beat Sheen Mount, while Churchfields won 5-3 against St Aubyn’s.

Under-13 Girls

London Academy dominated the competition and sealed the title with a 4-0 win over Colchester County in the final.

Serene Rahmani-Walentynska, Alexia-Bianca Ciobanica and Ruby Gandi Bamidele all won their singles matches, though Adhuna Das extended Ciobanica to 12-10, 2-11, 11-8.

The doubles then sealed victory as Rahmani-Walentynska & Gandi Bamidele beat Das & Hanusri Mohansundar.

London beat Ashmole Academy in the semi-finals, without dropping a game, and it was also 4-0 for Colchester against Morpeth, though Lejla Cox took the first game 14-12 against Mohansundar.

Under-13 Boys

St Paul’s clinched the title in thrilling fashion on countback after the final against Wallington County Grammar finished 4-4.

It was a rollercoaster match which both schools had the chance to win. Wallington made their move first as Ethan King beat Daniel Bordalo 11-9, 11-8, but St Paul’s moved 2-1 in front thanks to wins for Nikolas Karavas and Alexander Lundgren over Adam Raffiq and Samarth Choudhary respectively.

Toshiro Franklin aged past Theo Cleanis 12-10, 11-9 to make it 2-2 but Karavas restored the Wallington lead with an 11-6, 11-7 win over King. St Paul’s then won two on the spin as Choudhary defeated Bordalo 11-9, 6-11, 11-8 and Raffiq overcame Cleanis 11-3, 11-7.

It all came down to the last match as Franklin took on Lundgren and won the first game 12-10. However, Lundgren won the next two 11-8, 11-7 to make the final score 4-4.

St Paul’s got the verdict on points difference to take the title.

St Paul’s had a 5-1 win over Ilford County in the semi-finals, while Wallington edged past London Academy 4-3, with all four players contributing one win.

Under-16 Girls

London Academy beat St Marylebone 4-0 in the final to win the title.

Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska started the ball rolling with an 11-3, 11-6 win over Nour Alamine, and Assil Sarri followed up with an 11-9, 11-2 victory over Zeina Negm.

Naomi Adjei came from a game down to beat Eva Yared 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, and Rahmani-Walentynska & Sarri completed victory 11-5, 11-8 in the doubles against Alamine & Negm.

London Academy got through their semi-final 4-2 against Addey & Stanhope School, while St Marylebone defeated Morpeth School 4-0.

Under-16 Boys

London Academy completed another age-group double as their boys’ team beat Addey & Stanhope 5-0 in the final.

Adam Riadi won the first match, coming from behind to beat Franky Hoang 8-11, 11-2, 11-6. Yacoub Rahmani-Walentynska made it 2-0 with a 12-10, 11-7 win over Elkanah Gordon.

Connor Godley won 9-11, 11-5, 12-10 against Joshua Ljelekah, and Stefan Pop made it 4-0 by beating Karamogo Bamba 11-6, 11-6.

It was left to Rahmani-Walentynska to beat Bamba 11-4, 11-5 to deliver the title.

In the semi-finals, London Academy beat University College School 8-0, while Addey & Stanhope needed countback to get past Twyford CE School after their tie finished level at 4-4. Addey & Stanhope three times clawed back a one-match deficit and edged through 10-8 on sets difference.

Under-19 Girls

The round-robin competition saw Wallington High School win all four matches to take the title ahead of St George’s Catholic school, with Nonsuch High in third. But they had to work hard, with three 3-2 victories.

They started by beating Nonsuch 3-2, as Nonsuch came from 2-0 down to level, before Man Yin Ng won her second singles match to seal it for Wallington.

The second match was a 3-2 scoreline against St George’s, for whom Luna Archard won two singles in the first and fifth matches. In between, Man Yin Ng and Kei Yin Ng won one singles apiece and combined to win the doubles against Archard & Leona Nerona 11-9, 7-11, 11-7.

A 5-0 win against University College School followed, before Wallington clinched the title with a 3-2 win over Oaklands School.

They went behind as Angelina Harea won the first match against Man, but Wallington won the next three to guarantee the title, although Harea pulled one back in the final match, beating Kei 12-14, 11-9, 14-12.

St George’s beat Nonsuch 4-1 to seal second place.

Under-19 Boys

King Edward VI Grammar School from Chelmsford took the title, but only on countback after the final against St Dominic’s Sixth Form College finished 4-4.

St Dominic’s took the lead when Shahuraj Nimse beat Kuzey Musabak 11-7, 11-8. However, King Edward came storming back with three wins on the spin. First Callum Heath beat Joshua Fernandes 11-5, 11-4, then Oscar Hutt defeated Manu Dhosi 11-3, 11-3, followed by Charlie Gould overcoming Harvey Cheung 11-6, 11-4.

Nimse reduced the arrears as he beat Heath 11-7, 10-12, 11-8, but Musabak restored the two-point advantage as he defeated Dhosi 11-2, 11-4.

Fernandes held his nerve to beat Gould 11-3, 7-11, 14-12 t make it 4-3 and St Dominic’s levelled as Cheung beat Hutt 11-6, 11-6.

Once the number of sets won were totalled up, it was 10-8 in King Edward’s favour, giving them the title.

King Edward had defeated Whigift 6-1 in the semi-finals, while it was another close one for St Dominic’s, who were never behind against Wallington but were repeatedly pegged back. It finished 4-4, with St Dominic’s progressing to the final on 10-9 sets difference.