It was mission accomplished for both defending Premier Division champions in the Youth British Clubs League at the weekend.

London Academy girls romped to a 100% record as they retained their title, while Grantham Academy boys were unbeaten as they did likewise.

More than 350 players were in action in 14 divisions at Derby Arena and the satellite venue at Draycott & Long Eaton TTC.

SGS College Bristol were the boys’ Team of the Weekend, while Northern Girls (Barrow TTC) were the girls’ winners.

Player of the Weekend was awarded to Emily Flynn (Draycott III) in the girls and William Richards (SGS College Bristol II) in the boys.

Selected matches from the weekend were live-streamed and are now available to watch on demand at TTE.TV. Further selected matches will follow.

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Girls’ Divisions

Top two London Academy and Grantham College started the weekend with back-to-back 6-0 victories apiece, a spell that was only broken when Grantham defeated Draycott 4-2 on Saturday evening.

It was also 4-2 for London against Draycott on Saturday morning, while Grantham beat Ormeau 5-1, to remain two points behind the leaders.

Victory for Grantham over London would have levelled matters at the top and taken the destination of the trophy to countback, but in the end the abacus was not required as London won it 4-2 to complete a 100% winning season.

Hannah Silcock briefly raised Grantham hopes as she defeated Sienna Jetha in the first match, but two wins by Sophie Barcsai, including a key one over Silcock in Match 4, either side of Maliha Baig’s win over Lowri Hurd, meant London had at least a draw and therefore could not be overtaken.

Jetha made sure of the win by defeating Hurd, making Ella Pashley’s five-set win over Baig only a late crumb of comfort for Grantham.

Barcsai topped the averages with a full house of 20 victories, two better than Baig, with Silcock and Pashley next in line with 17 and 16 respectively.

London Academy II made it a double by winning Division One, though it was by no means a clear-cut as their senior side’s triumph.

By contrast to the top flight, which did not witness a single drawn match, Division One had nine of them, but London still had enough to finish three points clear of Draycott II, who edged Northern Girls into third place on sets ratio.

London Academy actually started the weekend with a defeat – 4-2 at the hands of Greenhouse, for whom Luna Archard won twice, including a 13-11 in-the-fifth victory over Lianna Shilani Tousi.

But that was London’s only blemish as they won their other four matches to finish with a record of six wins, three draws and just that one defeat.

Alisha Dutta of London won all eight of her matches to top the averages, while Eva Eccles was the pick of the more regular players, with 14 wins out of 18.

The glory kept coming for London Academy as their third-string won Division Two by three points ahead of Woodford Wells.

They did, however, lose 4-2 to their nearest rivals in Round 8, with Evie Knaapen notching a double and Melisha Anthony beating Ruby Gandi Bamidele 12-10 in the fifth.

With the chasing pack all taking points off each other, London’s 4-2 win over Draycott on Sunday morning sealed the deal and meant their 5-1 defeat by third-placed Drumchapel Glasgow on Sunday afternoon did not matter.

Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska (10/10) and Violet-Lily Marquis (8/8) were top of the averages, having only played on Weekend 1. Knaapen led the way of the more regular players, winning 14 out of 18.

The eight-team Division Three was won by Cleeve Park, who lost their 100% record from the first weekend but were still unbeaten.

They drew twice, both times with Draycott IV, first on Saturday before the division split into two halves and then on Sunday, Cleeve Park coming from 3-1 down on the first occasion and 3-2 down on the second.

The final reckoning saw the champions four points clear of runners-up Draycott, who had the satisfaction of having the top player in the averages on their side – Catherine Lv won all 18 matches across the two weekends.

Boys’ divisions

Grantham Academy went into the weekend just ahead of eBaTT on games ratio and ended it three points clear of Fusion, with eBaTT a further point back in third.

eBaTT were no longer able to call on Ralph Pattison due to his move to play in the German leagues and that ultimately made a difference.

They stayed in contention with wins in their first two matches and it was only when Fusion beat them 6-0 on Saturday that there was daylight at the top, Grantham having won all three Saturday matches.

Their title looked under grave threat on Sunday morning, though, as they trailed 3-0 to Fusion after Francesco Bonato’s 12-10 in-the-fifth win over Joseph Dennison. Isaac Kingham started the recovery by beating Larry Trumpauskas 11-9 in the fifth and wins by Dennison and Abraham Sellado rescued what turned out to be a key point for Grantham – all six players won once over the course of the tie.

eBaTT beat Joola Plymouth 4-2 on Sunday morning, meaning they still had a chance to claim the title with victory over Grantham in the final round.

In the event, although Max Radiven put eBaTT ahead, Grantham surged back to win 5-1 and clinch the title – Kingham beating Radiven 13-11 in the fifth in Match 4 to end it as a contest.

In the averages, Grantham’s Sellado won 13/16 to lead the way from Trumpauskas and Radiven, who both won 16/20.

While eBaTT fell away in the top flight, their second string won Division One by an impressive six points from London Academy.

The winners won eight and drew two – their only dropped point on Weekend 2 was in a 3-3 draw against London Academy, a match they led 3-1 after Ben Dunkley’s 3-2 (9-11, 4-11, 11-9, 18-16, 11-3) win over Wajid Wafiq, before London fought back to level the score.

That win helped Dunkley to top the averages with 16/18, just ahead of Pablo Ramirez Rioja (Urban) on 17/20 – though for the record, Francesco Bonato did win both his two matches for Fusion II.

Woodford Wells won all five matches 6-0 on Weekend 2 to seal the Division Two title by five points from eBaTT III and remain unbeaten with nine wins and a first-weekend draw against their nearest challengers.

The team was under-pinned by Sinan Surensoy, who won 19/20 matches and Adam Alibhai, who was just one win behind his team-mate atop the averages.

Mid-Ulster were perfection itself as they won Division Three with a full house of 10 victories and only dropped five individual matches throughout the competition, and only one on Weekend 2.

It put them four points ahead of Crosby High, who only lost to the champions and won all eight of their other matches.

Aedan McGivern was top of the averages with a 100% record from 19 matches.

Drumchapel Glasgow maintained their unbeaten record to win Division Four by three points from Ormeau.

They drew their two matches on Sunday, first against SGS College Bristol and then against the runners-up, and on both occasions it was Ben Hart who won the final match to preserve Drumchapel’s record.

Hart ended with 16 out of 18, but was second in the averages behind Ormeau’s Peadar Sheridan, who won all 10 matches on Weekend 2.

Brighton remained unbeaten to win Division Five, with their record of seven victories and three draws putting them four points clear of St Mary’s Stars.

The champions actually beat their nearest rivals 5-1 and it was against Urban II and Crusaders that they dropped a point.

Ryan Goodier was the mainstay for Brighton winning 18 out of 20 matches to top the averages.

Division Six was won by Draycott III, who finished on 14pts, one better than Britannia as Weekend 1 leaders Waterside fell away to end in fifth.

While Waterside slipped down the table, Draycott came from nowhere to the top by winning all five matches, including beating Britannia 4-2 in Round 7.

Britannia did have the leading player in the average, Alexander Graham winning 18/20 for a 90% ratio.

By far the closest division was Division Seven, where Fusion III, Cippenham II and SGS College Bristol II all finished with 12pts and only 6pts separated the whole division as Weekend 1 leaders BrumFord II ended in fourth.

It was Fusion who took the verdict on sets ratio, with their 34-26 sum coming out slightly better than Cippenham (33-27) and SGS (31-29).

In the meetings between the top three on Weekend 2, SGS overcame Cippenham 4-2, Fusion beat Cippenham 6-0 and then Fusion and SGS drew 3-3, Fusion coming from 3-1 down to secure an all-important point.

BrumFord’s Omar Wasi led the averages with 11/14.

Ormeau II were unbeaten in winning Division Eight, though they rather limped to victory with three draws on Weekend 2 s they finished a point clear of Jersey, who had seven wins – one more than the champions.

Crucially, though, Ormeau defeated their nearest rivals 5-1 in the final round.

Sora Ikazaki topped the averages with 10/10 for Ashford, ahead of Worthing’s Harry Street with 15/16.

London Academy III won nine out of 10 matches to take the eight-team Division Nine title, four points clear of Guernsey, whom they beat 5-1.

The champions’ only blemish came before the league split in two as they lost 4-2 to Horsham, who finished in fourth place.

Yacoub Rahmani-Walentynska won 12/14 and his team-mate Adam Riadi 8/10.