The University of Nottingham (UoN) once again dominated the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Table Tennis Championships, winning four of the five titles – including a clean sweep by Jiaqi Meng.

The competition saw around 480 athletes competing at David Ross Sports Village, UoN’s home venue.

Meng won all three titles available to her, matching her feat from last year, including defending the Women’s Singles title.

Jonathan Mooney won the Men’s Singles, Meng & Sophie Earley won the Women’s Doubles and Meng teamed up with Hanming Lin for the Mixed.

The only title not won by Nottingham was the Men’s Doubles, which went to Adam Dennison & Krish Chotai of Nottingham Trent University.

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As well as the medallists, male and female Player of the Tournament, voted for by the umpires, were awarded to Toby Ellis (Sheffield Hallam) and Jasmin Wong (UoN).

Meng did not drop a game throughout the Women’s Singles, coming through the top quadrant of the competition as top seed with three group victories and three in the early knockout rounds.

She continued her blemish-free record by defeating Xinyu Li of Manchester 3-0 (11-8, 11-2, 11-1) in the semi-finals and went on to beat Nottingham colleague Sophie Earley in the final by a scoreline of 11-9, 11-6, 11-6.

Earley had defeated Nottingham Trent’s Mollie Patterson, the fourth seed, in three straight in the other semi-finals.

Three of the quarter-finals were close matches and the victors all came from behind to win. Li overcame Mari Baldwin (Nottingham) 3-2 (10-12, 12-14, 11-3, 11-5, 11-8), Patterson got past Jasmin Wong (Nottingham) 3-2 (9-11, 8-11, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6) and Earley defeated Yat Sum Ma (Plymouth) 3-2 (11-9, 8-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8).

Mooney was perhaps a surprise Men’s Singles champion as 10th seed, but he came through his group easily enough and only dropped a couple of games in the early rounds as he made his way to the quarter-finals.

There, he unseated defending champion Xinliang Sun, also of UoN, before a fine comeback saw him edge past Toby Ellis (Sheffield Hallam) 3-2 (4-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9).

His final opponent was Joseph Hee (Cambridge), and it was another 3-2 win as Mooney took it 11-9, 6-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7).

The other bronze medallist alongside Ellis was Adam Dennison (Nottingham Trent), who led 2-0 against Hee before the latter came back to take it 3-2 (10-12, 5-11, 11-8, 13-11, 11-7).

In the Women’s Doubles, the gold and silver medallists from the singles combined to take the title as Meng & Earley beat team-mates Baldwin & Wong in four (11-8, 11-6, 9-11, 11-4).

Baldwin & Wong had come from 2-0 down to beat another UoN pair, Mabel Shute & Ayla Chitty 3-2 (9-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5) in the semi-finals. In fact, it was all UoN on the podium as Anna Green & Rachael Iles were the other beaten semi-finalists, going down 7, 3, 4 to Meng & Earley.

Adam Dennison & Krish Chotai won the Men’s Doubles for Nottingham Trent, and they ended the reign of last year’s winners Ben Piggott & Felix Thomis of Sheffield Hallam, 3-1 (11-8, 6-11, 12-10, 11-7) in the final.

In the semis, Dennison & Chotai beat Hanming Lin & Xinliang Sun of UoN 3-1 (11-6, 11-7, 13-15, 11-9), and Piggott & Thomis defeated Danny Bajwa & James Johnson of Strathclyde.

Meng’s hat-trick also included the Mixed, in which there was another UoN sweep of the medals. Meng, alongside Hanming Lin, won the final 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-9) against James Hamblett & Anna Green.

In the semi-finals, the champions defeated Harri Docherty & Wong 3-1 (11-4, 11-13, 11-6, 12-10) and Hamblett & Green overcame Howard Onweng & Baldwin 3-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-9).