Abraham Sellado took his second title of the weekend and Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska her first ever at the Mark Bates Ltd Cadet & Under-17 National Championships.

The top seeds in their respective singles events at David Ross Sports Village in Nottingham, they lived up to the billing to take gold.

The two silver medallists were Kacper Piwowar and Hannah Saunders, with bronzes going to Adam Alibhai and Jake Davidson in the boys’ event and Alyssa Nguyen and Bly Twomey in the girls’.

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Girls’ Singles

Top seed Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska defeated second seed Hannah Saunders in the final to take her first national title.

The London Academy player had a slight power advantage over Saunders, who nevertheless fought hard and saved five match points from 6-10 and 10-11 down in the fifth before Rahmani-Walentynska finally took her chance to clinch a 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 13-11) victory.

In the semi-finals, Saunders did not give Alyssa Nguyen much of a look-in as she won 11-6, 11-5, 11-3, while Rahmani-Walentynska also prevented Bly Twomey from getting too close, prevailing 11-8, 11-7, 11-4.

Rahmani-Walentynska had been given an almighty scare by Evie Knaapen in the quarter-finals, shading a tight match 3-2. It was neatly poised at 8-8 but the top seed won the next two points and then took her second match point to complete a 6-11, 12-10, 10-12, 12-10, 11-9 victory.

At the same stage, Nguyen had to withstand a fine comeback by Amber Lemmon, eventually winning 3-1 (11-5, 11-8, 7-11, 8-11, 11-8).

The other two matches went with seeding in three straight as Twomey beat Catherine Lv 11-7, 11-5, 12-10 and Saunders overcame Jessica Tansur 8, 6, 4, meaning the top four seeds reached the semi-finals.

The four first-round matches were all decided in three, Maisha Patel coming closest to upsetting that formula as she took Lemmon to 12-10 in the third.

Group stage

Group 1 was reduced to three players by the withdrawal of Eva Yared, but there was still an upset as Phoebe O’Brien rose from third to second by beating Chloe Kniep in a close three-game match (16-14, 11-8, 11-9).

Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska, as expected, won both matches to top the group, though Kniep did take a game off her.

The third-ranked player also broke into the top two in Group 6, Jessica Tansur joining top-ranked Catherine Lv in qualifying for the knockouts.

Tansur defeated second-ranked Assil Sarri 3-1 (11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9) in the key match, and also took a game off Lv, the only one dropped by the group winner.

It was all as expected in Group 3 as Alyssa Nguyen went through ahead of Cindy Xiao – it was 3-0 (7, 9, 5) to Nguyen in their meeting.

Group 5 saw top two Amber Lemmon and Evie Knaapen safely advance in the expected order, with Lemmon winning their match 3-1 (11-4, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6).

Fourth seed Bly Twomey won Group 4, ahead of Maisha Patel as the top two went through. Twomey did not drop a game, culminating in defeating Patel 11-6, 11-4, 11-1.

Hannah Saunders and Serere Rahmani-Walentynska went through from Group 2 in in the expected order, though the latter had to fight past third-ranked Millie Ufton 3-2 (13-11, 9-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-6). Ufton herself won in five against Niylah Fernandez (11-4, 5-11, 11-6, 2-11, 11-9).

In the match between the top two, second seed Saunders won 3-1 (11-7, 11-9, 8-11, 11-6).

Boys’ Singles

Abraham Sellado doubled up – adding the Cadet trophy to the Under-17s title he won yesterday. The top seed was up against his doubles partner and good friend, fourth seed Kacper Piwowar, in the final and took control early on. Piwowar rallied in the third, forcing Sellado into a timeout and prolonging the match into a fourth, but Sellado found his range again and won ite 3-1 (11-7, 11-4, 5-11, 11-5).

Sellado’s semi-final against Jake Davidson was delicately poised at 1-1, with Davidson 7-5 up in the third. Sellado brutally shut down any chance of an upset by winning 15 of the next 16 points, going on to a 3-1 (11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6) victory.

Piwowar made sure it would not be the top two seeds in the final as he edged past second seed Adam Alibhai 3-2 (9-11, 11-8, 11-3, 10-12, 11-8).

Eighth seed Davidson upset third seed Dimitar Dimitrov in the quarter-finals and it was a convincing 3-0 (11-4, 11-2, 11-9) triumph.

The only one of the quarters to go to four was Alibhai’s 3-1 (14-12, 11-8, 6-11, 11-8) win over fifth seed Pablo Ramirez Rioja.

In the other two, Piwowar and Sellado were pretty untroubled against Ryan Holland and Aarav Parihar respectively, neither opponent getting more than six points in a game.

In the first round there was a cracker between Holland and seventh seed Sinan Surensoy, and it resulted in an upset as Holland came through 3-2 (11-9, 5-11, 13-15, 16-14, 11-6), saving one match point in the fourth.

Parihar had a nice 3-1 (12-14, 11-6, 12-10, 14-12) win over Oscar Nikolli, and Nishil Shah had a decent go against Ramirez Rioja before the latter won 3-1 (11-5, 12-14, 12-10, 11-5).

Group stage

Fourth-ranked Finley Aitken beat two higher-ranked players to go through behind the group’s top seed, Jake Davidson in Group 8.

Aitken first came from behind to win the battle of the left-handers against second-ranked Theo Kniep 3-2 (5-11, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 11-5) and then beat Teagan Khazal 3-1 (13-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6).

Davidson had to be on his mettle as Kniep attempted to bounce back from his earlier defeat. It finished 3-1 (7-11, 11-5, 15-13, 11-8) to Davidson.

Third-ranked Zaid Aldilimi climbed above second-ranked Lewis Wu in Group 3 – it was 3-0 (14-12, 14-12, 11-8) to Aldilimi. Dimitar Dimitrov won the group, as expected, dropping one game to Charlton Ngitngit.

Sinan Surensoy rose from second-ranked to first-placed in Group 7, defeating Ryan Goodier 3-1 (11-3, 3-11, 11-7, 11-6). Goodier did make it through in second. Hassan Damji and Euan Hacking served up the best match in the group, the former winning it 3-2 (11-6, 11-13, 5-11, 13-11, 11-8).

The top two positions in Group 6 were also reversed as Aarav Parihar beat Ryan Holland 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 13-11).

Parihar had a tougher time against third-ranked Harry Tomlinson, eventually winning 3-2 (9-11, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-4). Tomlinson had earlier beaten Parsai Ahsani 3-2 (13-11, 7-11, 11-13, 12-10, 11-8).

Kacper Piwowar won Group 4 as expected, dropping only one game, to Harrison Hill. Second place had to be sorted out by three-way countback, however.

Ethan Zeng beat Hill in four but lost to Chun Yin Ng, also in four. Second-ranked Hill’s 3-0 win over Ng was therefore crucial as he went through with Piwowar.