There are new champions in the Youth British Clubs League, Premier Divisions, with Grantham College taking the girls’ title and Fusion the boys’ trophy.

Team of the Weekend awards went to Bristol Academy in Boys’ Division Two and Drumchapel Glasgow in Girls’ Division Two.

The Player of the Weekend accolades went to Millie Ufton of Draycott III in Girls’ Division Two and Christopher Allsop of Ormeau in Boys’ Division Four.

More than 370 players were in action in 15 divisions across two venues – Derby Arena and the satellite venue at Draycott & Long Eaton TTC.

Girls’ divisions

Grantham College dethroned London Academy to seal the Premier Division title despite losing their unbeaten record to their rivals.

Going into the weekend with a two-point lead, Grantham extended that to four points on the Saturday thanks to three victories – two 6-0s and a 5-1 – while London twice dropped points with 3-3 draws.

The first of those was against Draycott, who led three times but could not force the victory, despite a double for Mabel Shute, which included a come-from-behind 3-2 (11-4, 10-12, 9-11, 11-7, 11-5) win over Maliha Baig.

Sophie Barcsai’s two victories for London included a 3-2 (9-11, 11-13, 11-1, 11-7, 11-8) victory over Naomi Coker, while Baig secured a point for London by defeating Eva Eccles in the final match.

London were then held by Cippenham, who came from 3-1 down to take a point. Barcsai again doubled up for London, but Rachael Iles beat Baig 12-10 in the fifth and Mia Lakhani and Alyssa Nguyen won the last two matches for Cippenham against, respectively, Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska and Baig, both in four.

Cippenham then came from 2-0 and 3-2 down to draw against Grantham on Sunday morning, Lakhani securing the point in the final match as she defeated Hannah Saunders 3-2 (11-6, 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 12-10).

London got back to winning ways, 6-0 against Greenhouse, but the draw meant Grantham could not be caught. Nevertheless, London at least got bragging rights and ensured it would not be an unbeaten season for the champions by winning the final match 4-2.

Notable in that match was Rahmani-Walentynska’s 3-2 (11-7, 6-11, 9-11, 17-15, 11-7) victory over Lowri Hurd, while Barcsai maintained her form by overcoming both Hannah Silcock and Ella Pashley.

The first of those was significant in that it also inflicted Silcock’s only defeat in 20 matches. Barcsai, who only played this weekend, topped the divisional averages with a full 10/10 to finish ahead of Silcock.

Ormeau overtook Draycott II at the last to seal the Division One title. Both sides won three matches on Saturday, which left Draycott two points clear with Sunday’s two matches remaining.

That became one point as the leaders were held 3-3 by Northern Girls, who made light of having only two players as Mia Longman won twice and Sophie Ackred once to take a point. They were 2-1 down before Longman beat Catherine Lv 3-2 (11-9, 11-6, 10-12, 8-11, 11-7) and Ackred won in five (11-9, 11-13, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9) against Jessica Tansur.

With Ormeau racking up another 5-1 win, it meant a win for them over Draycott would see them leapfrog their opponents to take the title.

This they duly did. The match was well poised at 1-1 when Niamh Mason beat Tansur 3-2 (12-10, 11-7, 5-11, 6-11, 11-7) to put Ormeau ahead, and they extended their advantage thanks to Anjali Singh’s splendid comeback to beat Lv 3-2 (3-11, 8-11, 11-3, 14-12, 12-10).

Mille Noble kept Draycott’s hopes alive of securing a title-winning draw, but Grace Looney delivered it to Ormeau by beating Tansur in three. It was an unbeaten season too, with seven wins and three draws.

Looney had the best win-rate of the division’s regular players, with 16/19 to top the averages.

Drumchapel Glasgow dominated Division Two with nine victories and one draw to finish five points ahead of Graham Spicer II.

Spicers did have the satisfaction of preventing the champions from finishing with a 100% record as they held them 3-3 in the final round, with Chui-Que Wong picking up a double. Spicers led 3-2 before Alexandra Hart made sure of an unbeaten season, if not a perfect one, for the Scottish club.

Wong was the pick of the division’s regular players, leading the averages with 19 out of 20.

There were also unbeaten champions in Division Three, with Kingfisher winning eight and drawing two as they headed Ellenborough by three points.

Ellenborough could still have won the title going into the final match, but Kingfisher put paid to those dreams with a 5-1 victory, finished off by Chloe Kniep’s eye-catching 3-2 (5-11, 8-11, 11-3, 14-12, 12-10) win over Gaia Wong.

Blitz’s Senuli Ranasinghe won 8/8 to lead the averages, though Kingfisher’s Heilam Tse was not far behind with 18 wins from the full set of 20 matches.

Ormeau II made it a double celebration for the Belfast club by winning Division Four. They were also unbeaten, their seven victories and three draws putting them a point ahead of Jersey I in a division which included four Channel Islands teams.

Ormeau made sure with a 3-3 draw against their closest rivals in the final round – they led 3-1 to sure the title, before Jersey fought back to level.

Freya Allaway of Jersey was the top player in the averages, with 18/20.

Boys’ divisions

The Premier Division was a three-horse race at the start of the weekend, with Fusion a point ahead of champions Grantham Academy and Woodford Wells a further point back.

eBaTT won only once on the first weekend – and yet beat all three title challengers on Saturday and won both of their Sunday matches to complete a sensational perfect second weekend.

They had left themselves too much to do to take the title, but they did seal second place, two points behind champions Fusion.

The 4-2 defeat to eBaTT on Saturday evening was one of the hardest-fought matches of the weekend, with three five-setters and the other three matches done in four. Max Radiven’s 3-2 (10-12, 11-9, 11-8, 11-13, 11-7) win over Rohan Dani put eBaTT ahead, and they then won matches three, four and five to ensure victory after Larry Trumpauskas had levelled for Fusion by beating Janak Shah 3-2 (11-7, 11-5, 7-11, 4-11, 11-3).

That was Fusion’s only defeat, but they were also held to draws by both Woodford and Grantham on Sunday – coming from 3-2 down on each occasion thanks to victories for Dani in the final match.

With some of the best young English prospects taking matches off each other, it was a less familiar name at the top of the averages – Benjamin Zijadic of Woodford Wells – who topped the averages with 19/20.

Kingfisher took the Division One honours despite losing their unbeaten record in the final match as closest rivals Ellenborough finished two points behind.

Ellenborough’s drawn matches against Grantham Academy II and Urban left them with two much to do against Kingfisher, who had won all four previous matches of the weekend.

Kingfisher were 2-1 up in the final match after fifth-game wins for Harry Randall over Aidan Lees and Ryan Chung over Sam Poyntz, but Marcel Ndongala’s double, including in the fifth against Rishaan Sawant, spurred Ellenborough’s fightback to win 4-2.

Prayrit Ahluwalia was not playing in that final match for Kingfisher, but his record of 17 wins out of 18 saw him head the divisional averages.

Drumchapel Glasgow and eBaTT II dominated the top of Division Two, but it was the Scottish club which edged home by a point.

Both teams won their opening four matches of the weekend, which meant Drumchapel held a 3pt lead, having beaten eBaTT on weekend one, with eBaTT also drawing once.

eBaTT had the satisfaction of ending the Glasgow club’s 100% record in the final round, by a 4-2 margin, Arinjay Kuchhal winning a crucial fourth match against Joe Mulhern 3-2 (11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 11-2) to put eBaTT 3-1 up.

Of the regular players, eBaTT’s Toby Harwood had the best record with 12 wins out of 13 to top the averages.

A close Division Three saw only three points separate the top four teams, and it was Brighton who edged it over eBaTT III, with Crosby High and St Marys Stars not far behind.

The sides were level going into Sunday’s matches, but eBaTT lost to Crosby in Round 9, while Brighton drew with Greenhouse.

It meant Brighton needed a draw against eBaTT to take the title, and that is exactly what they got – Harvey Sandwell putting them 3-2 up by beating Samvit Balaji in four games in the fifth match of the tie.

eBaTT’s Oscar Nikolli was the best of the regular players in the averages, winning 15/16, just ahead of Greenhouse’s Angad Saggu (18/20).

Ormeau may have set some kind of record in winning Division Four by the incredible margin of 10 points.

The Irish side lost only five individual matches throughout the competition, winning all 10 fixtures and finishing ahead of Grantham Academy IV and Birmingham by the proverbial country mile.

Not surprisingly, Ormeau dominated the averages, with Christopher Allsop hitting a magnificent 20/20 and team-mates Toby Caldwell and Aaditya Singh following with 18 and 17 respectively.

It went to countback in Division Five and it was Cippenham who edged out Crosby High B on sets difference after both ended on 16pts.

Cippenham were two points behind going into the final match, having lost 4-2 to Britannia in the ninth round. Needing to beat Crosby to take the title, they won 4-2 with doubles for brothers Bharath and Saisuriya Prasanna Kumar, the former beating Dyfan Innes-Wilkin 3-2 (11-8, 8-11, 13-11, 10-12, 11-9) in a tight final match.

Britannia’s Alexander Graham was top of the averages with 19 wins out of 20.

Archway Peterborough were magnificent in winning all 10 matches to take the Division Six title by five points ahead of Draycott III.

The team only lost seven individual matches, and they sealed their perfect season with a 4-2 win over Draycott in the last round.

Kai Lun Chow and Zihan Lin were unbeatable, both winning all 20 matches to top the averages.

Brighton II won their last three matches after the eight-team Division Seven split, including a 4-2 victory over Fusion III in the penultimate round which put them a point ahead of the beaten side in the final reckoning.

Ziad El-Hassan of the champions won 14/16 to finish just ahead of Fusion pair Kelvin Adeleke and Liyan Azis among the regular players.

Jersey’s perfect season saw them win Division Eight by a six-point margin from Bristol Academy II and Nett Juniors.

Jersey lost only nine individual matches across the two weekends, only one of them by William Cornthwaite who topped the averages with 19/20.

Worthing were unbeaten in taking the Division Nine title by five points from Draycott IV. The title was won on the back of a perfect weekend one and an unbeaten weekend two as Worthing finished with seven victories and three draws.

Oliver Jordan of Worthing won 8/8 to top the averages, with team-mate John Le Fondre the pick of the more regular players with 16/18.