London Academy Late October 2 Star

Our latest 2 Star was the first part of an all-cadet weekend with the highlight being the Under 15 Boys competition.

Under 15 Boys

The final was contested between late replacement Vihaan Mittal and 8th ranked Kenzo Boulton.

Kenzo had an extraordinary run in the knockout stages with wins over the 2nd and 4th seeds. The best match of the day being his comeback from 2 sets down against Grantham's Joshua Marston.

Vihaan, who had replaced top seed Rishaan Sawant in the draw, also had to come from behind to knock out 3rd seed Zack Sarri in the semis. The final eventually went to Vihaan, with a solid 3-1 victory over Kenzo.

Winner: Vihaan Mittal
Runner-up: Kenzo Boulton
Semi-finalists: Zacharia Sarri & Rafael Hanzel Wacker

Under 13 Boys

Dominic Rimmy took full advantage of the withdrawal of the top two seeds by cruising through the Under 13 Boys event with the loss of a single set to Nathan Bloom in the quarter-finals. Daniyal Janmohamed lived up to his second seeding on the day by reaching the final, but was unable to contain his opponent in the final, going down in straight sets.

Winner: Dominic Rimmy
Runner-up: Daniyal Janmohamed
Semi-finalists: Pranav Panchamukhi & Ananmay Gupta

Under 13 Girls

Regular rivals Isabella Xiao Xu and Bethany Yang met again in the final with Isabella coming out on top 3-0 despite her opponent's higher rank.

In the semi-finals Bethany beat London Academy's Rea Kola, while Isabella beat Weymouth's Charlotte Griffiths.

In the consolation final, Ameerahgwen Ballad survived a strong fightback from Iliona Kola to take the title with a 3-2 victory

Winner: Isabella Xiao xu
Runner-up: Bethany Yang
Semi-finalists: Rea Kola & Charlotte Griffiths

Under 11 Mixed

The Under 11 event has belonged to Sanav Sethi for a while now, and this time was no different. He powered through both the morning and afternoon sessions without losing a single set.

The most notable performance of the day was by William Liu, who started the day ranked 8th but ended up taking the Silver medal after a three way countback between him, Kush Jadeja, and Yuxuan Wu.

Charlie Zeng, Seb Bruce, and Cian MacNamara took gold silver and bronze in the Consolation Division.

Winner: Sanav Sethi
Runner-up: William Liu
Third place: Kush Jadeja