Connor Green & Tin-Tin Ho have WON the WTT Feeder Dusseldorf Mixed Doubles title, beating Wales’ Anna Hursey & Borgar Haug of Norway in the final!

Top seed Hursey reached the Women’s Singles final, losing out to Yuka Kaneyoshi of Japan.

Green & Ho, seeded third, won a see-saw final in which they led twice but were pegged back, before taking the decider 11-6.

Green & Ho led throughout the first, which they won 11-6, but their opponents then led the second from the start – at one point leading 9-1 before taking it 11-7.

The lead did change hands in the third, which 11-9, but Haug & Hursey again hit back by winning the fourth 11-5.

The decider saw the English pair in charge from the off, winning the first three points and opening up a 9-3 advantage. They brought up six match points and, after taking the timeout after missing their first two, clinched the title on the next attempt.

It is a first WTT title for both Green & Ho, who also become the first English athletes to win a WTT Mixed Doubles title. Green, alongside Sophie Earley, was a Mixed Doubles runner-up at WTT Feeder Manchester 2025. Ho & Hursey were Women’s Doubles runners-up at WTT Feeder Manchester 2024.

Earlier, the champions overcame Germany’s Ricardo Walther & Ying Han in five games in the first round, winning the first 17-15 after missing five game points and saving one. The German’s twice levelled the overall score but the English pair won the decider 11-5.

They followed up with a win in three over Croatian pair Ivan Hencl & Dora Cosic in the quarter-finals, before edging a thrilling semi-final against Slovakia’s Samuel Arpas & Barbora Varady.

The English pair led most of the way to take the first, and then clawed back from 7-3 and 8-6 down to add the second game. At 10-6 down in the third, it looked as if the Slovakians would hit back, but Green & Ho won five in a row to bring up a match point. That one, and another later, were saved anf their opponents eventually took the game 15-13 – and then levelled the match by taking the fourth.

In the decider, Green & Ho pulled away from 4-4 and brought up two more match points, which again were saved. Finally, they got over the line 12-10 to get into Friday’s final.

In the bottom half of the draw, Hursey & Haug defeated second seeds Nandan Naresh (USA) & Sophia Klee (GER) in the first round and Maciek Kubik & Natalia Bajor of Poland in the quarters. Their opponents in the last four were Edward Ly & Mo Zhang of Canada, and they won 3-1 to set up a final with a guaranteed gold for the GB pathway.

Ho & Hursey reached the Women’s Doubles semi-finals. Seeded four, they beat Koharu Itagaki & Lisa Wang of Germany in the fifth to set up a tie against Giulia Takahashi & Karina Shiray of Brazil, which they won in three – including an 11-0 game in the second.

They faced Chien Tung-Chuan & Li Yu-Jhun of Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals, and were defeated in four games – winning the third.

Wong & Silcock reached the main draw with a victory over Dobrila Jorguseska & Emine Ernst of Netherlands. They went out in the last 16 to Veronika Matiunina & Anastasiya Dymytrenko of Ukraine.

In the Men’s Singles, Walker (WR 221) made it through the first round with a routine win over Bakdaulet Akimali of Kazakhstan and faced Rogelio Castro (WR 125) of Mexico in the last 32. He went 2-0 down but roared back to level, including saving a match point in taking the fourth game 14-12 on his own fifth game point. He blitzed the last with a run of seven points from 3-3, winning it 11-4.

That set up a tie against fourth seed Adrien Rassenfosse (WR 63) of Belgium in the last 16 and Walker will rue what might have been as he lost a match he led 2-1 and 9-7. Rassenfosse took four points in a row to level the match and then won the decider 11-5, pulling away from 4-4.

Tom Jarvis (WR 65), seeded fifth, had a bye into the last 32, whre he met Andrei Istrate of Romania. He took the first game but saw his opponent battle back to win in four.

Green (WR 258) was the highest-ranked player in qualifying and was largely untroubled by Belgium’s Per Gevers (WR 784) and Edouard Valenet of Philippines (WR 737) in the groups.

However, he was then defeated in the qualifying round in three games by Ivor Ban (WR 302) of Croatia.

In the Women’s Singles, Ho (WR 179) met Romania’s Adina Diaconu (WR 163) in the Round of 64. Her opponent took the first two games but Ho fought back to level and led the decider 9-8, only for Diaconu to win the next three points.

Mari Baldwin (WR 544) had a wildcard to the event and faced Lorena Morsch (WR 584) in the last 64, losing in three.

Hursey (WR 39), the top seed, had a bye into the last 32, where she beat Victoria Strassburger (WR 272) of Brazil in four to set up a last-16 tie against 15th seed Brianna Burgos (WR 144) of Puerto Rico.

She won that one in three and then overcame sixth seed Natalia Bajor of Poland in the last eight, in four games, and reached the final courtesy of a 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 14-12) win over Japan’s Kotomi Omoda, the 14th seed.

Her final opponent Kaneyoshi is ranked 224 and was the top-ranked player in qualifying. She came through that and was a revelation in the main draw, dropping only one game on her way to the final and beating the second and third seeds before dismantling Hursey 3-0 (11-3, 11-3, 11-2) to win the title.

In the groups, Wong (WR 524) overcame unranked Danielle Kelly of Wales in three straight but was then beaten in three by Yuka Kaneyoshi (WR 224) of Japan, the top-ranked player in qualifying, and also by Morsch.

Jersey’s Hannah Silcock, like Wong, won one and lost two in the group stage of the singles and did not progress.

Walker & Green were third seeds in the Men’s Doubles but went out in a deciding game to Nazar Tretiak & Anton Limonov of Ukraine in the last 16.

Results

Men’s Singles
Qualifying group 1
Connor Green bt Per Gevers (BEL) 3-0 (11-6, 11-2, 11-9)
Green bt Edouard Valenet (PHI) 3-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-4)

Qualifying round
Ivor Ban (CRO) bt Green 3-0 (11-4, 11-9, 11-5)

Round of 64
Sam Walker bt Bakdaulet Akimali (KAZ) 3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-7)

Round of 32
Andrei Istrate (ROU) bt Tom Jarvis 3-1 (7-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-7)
Walker bt Rogelio Castro (MEX) 3-2 (7-11, 7-11, 11-7, 14-12, 11-4)

Women’s Singles
Qualifying group 1
Jasmin Wong bt Danielle Kelly (WAL) 3-0 (11-3, 11-7, 11-9)
Yuka Kaneyoshi (JPN) bt Wong 3-0 (11-3, 11-5, 11-3)
Lorena Morsch (GER) bt Wong 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-9)

Round of 64
Adina Diaconu (ROU) bt Tin-Tin Ho 3-2 (11-5, 11-6, 4-11, 10-12, 11-9)
Lorena Morsch (GER) bt Mari Baldwin 3-0 (11-5, 11-6, 11-2)

Men’s Doubles
Round of 16
Nazar Tretiak & Anton Limonov (UKR) bt Sam Walker & Connor Green 3-2 (8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-6)

Women’s Doubles
Qualifying round 1
Jasmin Wong & Hannah Silcock (JEY) bt Dobrila Jorguseska & Emine Ernst (NED) 3-1 (11-8, 9-11, 11-4,11-8)

Round of 16
Tin-Tin Ho & Anna Hursey (WAL) bt Koharu Itagaki & Lisa Wang (GER) 3-2 (11-3, 8-11, 11-4, 5-11, 11-9)
Veronika Matiunina & Anastasiya Dymytrenko (UKR) bt Wong & Silcock 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-9)

Quarter-finals
Ho & Hursey bt Giulia Takahashi & Karina Shiray (BRA) 3-0 (11-8, 11-0, 11-5)

Semi-finals
Chien Tung-Chuan & Li Yu-Jhun (TPE) bt Ho & Hursey 3-1 (11-8, 12-10, 6-11, 11-2)

Mixed Doubles
Round of 16
Connor Green & Tin-Tin Ho bt Ricardo Walther & Ying Han (GER) 3-2 (17-15, 9-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-5)

Quarter-finals
Green & Ho bt Ivan Hencl & Dora Cosic (CRO) 3-0 (11-8, 13-11, 11-7)

Semi-finals
Green & Ho bt Samuel Arpas & Barbora Varady (SVK) 3-2 (11-6, 11-8, 13-15, 8-11, 12-10)

Final
Green & Ho bt Haug & Hursey 3-2 (11-6, 7-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-6)