Serene Rahmani-Walentynska had an unbeaten weekend, taking gold in both the Under-19 and Under-13 girls’ tournaments at the London Academy 2*.

With her sister Soraya and Assil Sarri moving up to try their luck in the Seniors, Serene took up the mantle of favourite in the U19s.

With the competition comprising an eight-strong field of players from London Academy and Greenhouse, Serene completed a clean sweep of seven straight wins to take the title.

Her biggest challenge came from club-mate Alexia-Bianca Ciobanica, who led their match 2-1 before Serene came from behind to secure the win and the gold medal. Alexia Beat Ruby Gandi Bamidele to decide silver and bronze.

The following day the three girls met again in the Under-13 Girls’ competition where Serene ran out the winner again. However, this time Ruby managed to take silver by reversing the result when she beat Alexia in a tough five-set match.

Nicholas Andrei continued London Academy’s success by winning the Under-11 Mixed Championship Division with 4 victories out of 4. The tone was set with a fifth-set victory over top seed and favourite Cindy Xiao, who managed to take second over Isabella Xiao Xu, after a three-way countback.

The consolation division was won by Jacob Vogl, with Daniyal Janmohamed sealing silver with a win over Hattie Xiao.

In the Under-13 Boys, second seed Nikolas Karavas beat top seed Joshua Freeman in a high-quality final. In the semi-finals both players had to beat London Academy opposition with Nikolas beating Rafi Hanzel Wacker in four sets while Joshua needed all five to see off Dominic Rimmy.

Local player Maahi Malde from Stanmore TTC, overcame a host of competition from Greenhouse to take the top spot in the Under-15 Girls’ competition. Nylah Fernandez beat her Greenhouse club-mate Isabelly Lorrana in five sets to take the silver.

An extended field in the Under-15 Boys saw six London Academy boys reach the knockout stage. By the semi-final stage only Yacoub Rahmani-Walentynski and Adam Riadi remained, and they faced each other two see who would reach the final, with Yacoub coming though in straight sets.

In the final Yacoub faced the top seed, Oscar Nikolli, and despite fighting hard he went down in four sets. Overall, this was a good result for the London Academy player as he missed Saturday’s competitions due to illness.

The Under-19 Boys saw the return of London Academy’s Parsa Yamin from injury as the top seed. However, despite reaching the final, he lost in three sets to eBaTT’s Ben Levi, who took his second title in a row.

With the late withdrawal of the top two seeds, and all of our previous winners absent, third seed Daniel Broner looked to be the favourite going into the Senior Mixed competition.

In the final he faced late entrant Jack Sandler. With a rivalry going back to their college days, the two players knew each other well, and as a result the match was a tight cagey affair that swung both ways several times. In the end, despite losing a two set lead, Sandler took the match in the fifth (13-11, 11-9. 10-12, 7-11, 11-5). Jaycee Chan and Rajiv Padman took the bronze medals as losing semi-finalists.