London Academy girls already have one hand on the girls’ Premier Division title in Youth British Clubs League.

London lead defending champions Grantham Academy by four points after a 100% weekend one at Derby Arena.

The Boys’ Open Premier Division is a closer-run thing, with Grantham Academy only a point clear of eBaTT, with both teams unbeaten.

Team of the Weekend went to Worthing, who play in Girls’ Division 2, and Crosby High A, who are in Boys’ Open Division 3.

The Boys’ Open Player of the Weekend was Abraham Sellado of Grantham A, while Cippenham’s Mia Lakhani took the Girls’ accolade.

Girls’ divisions

Champions Grantham Academy dropped a point in the first round on Saturday morning, leading Draycott 2-0 but then trailing 3-2 before Hannah Saunders secured a point by defeating Vardhini Nishanth in four.

It was also 3-3 in the second round and Grantham came from behind three times. There were some close matches, notably Brooke Morris beating Saunders 3-2 (11-9, 5-11, 10-12, 13-11, 12-10) in the first match and Maja Wojcicka earning Grantham a point with a final-match 3-2 (12-10, 11-13, 11-7 6-11, 12-10) win over Jonabel Taguibao.

London Academy opened with two 5-1 victories, against Ormeau and Draycott but were second in the table after two rounds to Cippenham, who had a 5-1 victory over Greenhouse and a 6-0 win against Ormeau.

London’s 6-0 win over Greenhouse in the third round of matches, coupled with Cippenham’s 4-2 defeat to Grantham, left London top after day one, but with Cippenham and Grantham to play.

The first of those matches finished 4-2 to London, though it was nicely poised at 2-2 when Ayssa Nguyen beat Sienna Jetha 3-2 (11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 2-11, 11-9). Naomi Coker and Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska won the next two matches for London to clinch victory.

The match against Grantham was also level at 2-2 and swung on match five, where Rahmani-Walentynska came from 2-1 down to beat Saunders 3-2 (9-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-3, 12-10). Sophie Barcsai then beat Wojcicka to complete London’s 100% weekend record.

They sit four points clear of Cippenham and Grantham and the title is surely theirs to lose on weekend 2 in February.

That last win for Rahmani-Walentynska completed a perfect weekend of 10 wins out of 10, while team-mate Barcsai won all six of her matches – they top the averages.

London Academy are also setting the pace in Division 1, where the second team are top, but only ahead of Drumchapel Glasgow on games difference.

Drumchapel are unbeaten, though they drew with both Draycott II and Woodford Wells, coming from a match down three times against Draycott, including after Millie Ufton beat Nuria Goldston 3-2 (4-11, 13-11, 12-14, 14-12, 11-2).

London’s only dropped points were in a 5-1 defeat by Drumchapel on Sunday morning.

Of the regular players, the best performing were Drumchapel duo Alexandra Hart with 9/19, one better than her team-mate Kiishi Adekola.

London Academy III completed a good weekend for the club by remaining unbeaten (W3 D2) and top of Division 2, a point ahead of Kingfisher, who are also unbeaten but who drew one extra match.

The match between them finished 3-3 – Kingfisher recovered from 2-0 and 3-2 down, with Rabani Ahluwalia notching a double.

London also drew with Brighton, for whom Saskia Svoboda secured a point with a 3-2 (9-11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-6, 11-3) win over Ruby Gandi Bamidele.

In the averages, of those who played regularly, London’s Adhuna Das had the best record with 5/6, ahead of team-mate Isabella Xiao Xu with 8/10.

Halton are unbeaten and two points clear of Nottingham in Division 3. Halton actually beat their closest rivals 4-2, though were not in danger of losing as they were 2-0 and 4-1 ahead. Their draw came in the first round against Fusion.

Halton also had the two players with 100% records – Tsz In Ria Wun from 10 matches and Aadhira Prakash from eight.

Ormesby had a 100% weekend in Division 4 to stand two points ahead of Ellenborough II. It was 5-1 when the top two met, with Mindy and Mila Gao both picking up doubles for Ormesby.

The sisters are two of five players to have won nine out of 10 across the weekend, along with Jersey’s Amellie David, Ellenborough’s Bethany Yang, and Crosby High’s Nyasha Roberts.

Kingfisher II won all four of their matches in the five-team Division 5, only dropping three individual matches to sit two points ahead of Guernsey.

Unsurprisingly, they had to top two in the averages, with Anshika Kamath and Kaavya Pathak both winning all eight.

Boys’ Open divisions

Grantham Academy and eBaTT both had unbeaten weekends, but it is the East Midlanders who lead by a point, having won four and drawn one, while eBaTT drew an extra match.

With no defending champions – Fusion had dropped down a division as players were no longer eligible – it was a wide-open division.

Grantham were unbeaten on day one, but eBaTT had to come from 2-0 down to draw 3-3 against Joola Plymouth in match two after Leo Nguyen had beaten Oscar Nikolli 3-2 (11-5, 10-12, 12-14, 12-10, 11-8) and Rex Wong defeated Leon Vlasov 3-2 (11-8, 11-9, 2-11, 11-13, 11-9).

eBaTT hit back to win the next three, but Wong completed his double with a win in four close games against Nishil Shah.

The top two met in the final round of matches and that one finished 3-3 as well. eBaTT took the lead as Vlasov beat Jake Davidson, but Grantham went 2-1 in front with wins for Abraham Sellado over Nikolli and Harry Street against Janak Shah.

Vlasov’s 3-0 (9, 8, 10) win over Sellado levelled the score but Davidson beat Shah to put Grantham back in front. Nikolli won the decider 3-0 (7, 11, 10) against Street to get a point for eBaTT.

Sellado’s defeat to Vlasov was his only one in 10 matches, while Vlasov himself only lost that match to Wong – they top the averages with 90%.

Charles Read Academy romped clear in Division 1 with five victories, only dropping four individual matches. They lead by four points from eBaTT II and Fusion.

After three 6-0 wins on Saturday, Charles Read conceded two to both Drumchapel Glasgow and Fusion on Sunday. They were never behind in the former but five-game wins for Zihan Lin over Dean Robertson and Ryan Holland over Ben Hart in matches three and four were key. In the latter, they had wrapped it up after five matches.

Holland won all 10 matches for Charles Read, one better than team-mate Harrison Hill.

There is also a four-point gap in Division 2, where St Marys Stars lead the way from Draycott and Brighton A.

The leaders’ closest match was in the first round, when Brighton took two matches off them, twice levelling the score through Ryan Goodier, against Aaron Wong and Harry Tomlinson.

Those were the only defeats for Wong and Tomlinson, while Goodier is sitting pretty at the top of the averages with the maximum 10 out of 10. Malek Shamakh of Draycott also lost only once.

Division 3 is tight, with unbeaten Birmingham TT Academy leading the way with 8pts, one ahead of both Crosby High A and Bristol Academy.

Birmingham drew 3-3 with Kingfisher II, who three times came from behind, and with Bristol, who came from 3-0 down to grab a point, a comeback started by Joshy Branch’s 3-2 (8-11, 18-16, 11-4, 8-11, 11-5) win over Mustafa Ibrahim.

Hassan Damji tops the averages with 9/10 for Birmingham, one better than Crosby duo Fraser Massey and Joseph Ilia.

Draycott II are top of Division 4 on games difference from Woodford Wells II, who are unbeaten but drew three times,

Draycott won three and drew once – their sole defeat was 4-2 by Woodford in the final round. Woodford came from 2-1 down to win it, with Louis Green winning a double.

Green had a record of nine wins from 10, but that was bettered by Sora Ikazaki of Ashford, who had a full house.

The eight-team Division 5 is headed by Halton and Cippenham, both with four wins and a draw – Halton are ahead on sets difference and the pair are a point clear of Grantham Academy III.

The top two drew 3-3 with each other and it was a bit of an epic, with four five-game matches and Halton coming from 3-1 down.

Sai Pasanna Kumar put Cippenham ahead 3-2 (11-8, 10-12, 14-12, 8-11, 11-5) against Chun Yat Theo Cheung, but Ronan Lamont Tierney levelled with a 3-2 (12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 6-11, 11-5) win over Louis Alexander.

Bharath Prasanna Kumar bear Lok Hei Hayfield Lam in three and Sai Prasanna Kumar won 3-2 (11-7, 13-11, 10-12, 6-11, 11-7) against Lamont Tierney to put Cippenham 3-1 up, but Cheung’s 3-2 (5-11, 11-8, 9-11, 12-10, 11-7) win over Bharath Prasanna Kumar made it 3-2 and Lam beat Alexander in four to secure a point.

Sai Prasanna Kumar won all 10 to sit top of the averages, alongside Mason Neil of Grantham Academy III.

Division 6 also has eight teams and also has joint leaders – Birmingham TT Academy II and Bristol Academy II, who both won three and drew two.

The leaders have yet to meet – both drew with Graham Spicer II and eBaTT III.

Woodford Wells II have the top player in the averages – Ollie Hensel won all eight of his matches.

At satellite venue Draycott, Fusion II lead Division 7 with a 100% record and only four individual matches dropped. They are two points ahead of Ellenborough II, who gave them their closest match in losing 4-2, though the victory was confirmed after five matches.

Samvit Balaji of Fusion was top of the averages with 9/9 – Thomas Ellis of Draycott III won all four of his matches.

Lowlands are top of Division 8, having won four and lost one to stand a point clear of Nottingham.

It was Nottingham who beat the leaders – 4-2 in the first round – and they came from 2-0 down to do it, with plenty of close games although no match lasted more than four.

Jacob Dennison took a double for Nottingham in that match on his way to a record of 7/8, bettered only by a full house of 8/8 for Lowlands’ Joshua Freeman.