It was a day for the lower seeded players as Adam Alibhai & Pablo Ramirez Rioja and Evie Knaapen & Catherine Lv tasted doubles glory as the Mark Bates Ltd Cadet & Under-17 National Championships came to an end.

The boys’ champions defeated top seeds Abraham Sellado & Kacper Piwowar in the final, with bronzes going to Rishaan Sawant & Theo Kniep and Dimitar Dimitrov & Euan Hacking.

In the girls’ event, Evie Knaapen & Catherine Lv defeated Alyssa Nguyen & Bly Twomey in five.

Top seeds Hannah Saunders & Amber Lemmon and second seeds Assil Sarri & Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska had to settle for bronze medals.

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Boys’ Doubles

Adam Alibhai & Pablo Ramirez Rioja ended the reign of defending champions and top seeds Abraham Sellado & Kacper Piwowar – a first national title for Alibhai.

It was a well fought match but the second seeds looked a bit fresher as they ran out 3-0 (12-10, 11-6, 11-9) victors.

Both semi-finals were done in three – Sellado & Piwowar ending the run of Dimitar Dimitrov & Euan Hacking 12-10, 11-4, 11-5 and Alibhai & Ramirez Rioja beating Rishaan Sawant & Theo Kniep 11-7, 11-9, 11-5.

In the quarter-finals, Dimitrov & Hacking had a second successive five-game match as they came back from 2-0 down to edge past left-handers Jake Davidson & Ryan Goodier 3-2 (9-11, 5-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-9).

Sawant & Kniep beat Grantham duo Harrison Hill & Ryan Holland 3-1 (11-5, 13-15, 11-3, 11-8); Alibhai & Ramirez Rioja won 3-1 (11-7, 11-3, 11-13, 11-5) against Aarav Parihar & Sinan Surensoy; and Sellado & Piwowar breezed past Zihan Lin & Lewis Wu 7, 8, 6.

The first round saw a prolonged tussle between Dimitrov & Hacking and Charlton Ngitngit & Teagan Khazal, the former pair fighting back from 2-1 down to win 3-2 (13-15, 15-13, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6).

Sawant & Kniep got past Parsia Ahsani & Chun Yin Ng in four, and it was the same margin for Parihar & Surensoy against Oscar Nikolli & Rowan Kumar and for Davidson & Goodier over Malek Shamakh & Hassan Damji.

The only match done in three was Lin & Wu’s win over Finley Aitken & Zaid Aldilimi.

Girls’ Doubles

Evie Knaapen & Catherine Lv won the title – a maiden national victory for Lv – as they defeated Bly Twomey & Alyssa Nguyen.

The final went the distance and the champions ran our 3-2 (11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-4) winners.

In the semi-finals, the top two pairs were knocked out – including top seeds Hannah Saunders & Amber Lemmon, who were dispatched 3-1 (11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-9) by Twomey & Nguyen.

It was even closer in the bottom half of the draw, where Knaapen & Lv won a see-saw encounter with Assil Sarri & Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska, getting on a roll in the last game to win 3-2 (11-8, 9-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-3).

Saunders & Lemmon came from a game down to beat Zoe Gonpot & Millie Ufton 3-1 (8-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-0) in the quarter-finals, and it was the same story for Twomey & Nguyen, who beat Ruby Gandi Bamidele & Serene Rahmani-Walentynska 3-1 (7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5).

Knaapen & Lv got past Zeina Negm & Sienna Svobodo in three, as did Sarri & Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska against Maisha Patel & Phoebe O’Brien.

There was just the one match in the preliminary round, Gonpot & Ufton earning their crack at the top seeds with a 3-0 (9, 3, 4) success over Harriet Goodwin & Sophie Dodds.