Titles for familiar names at the Women’s National Championships

Cambridge University Sports Centre
Saturday/Sunday, 7-8 February 2026

STOP PRESS Camille Beattie made it 3 in a row in beating 4-time champion Louise Mathias in the very hard fought final of the Women’s National Singles Championship. In the early rounds most victories were relatively comfortable with the exception of a mighty 3-game tussle between Maddy Raynor and Savanna Leboff. The four quarter-finals may well rank as being of the highest quality we have yet seen at that stage of this event, the eight players boasting a large number of singles and doubles titles between them. Camille Beattie cruised through her semi-final when the Women’s National U25 champion, Kirsten Bell, was forced to retire after one game with an arm injury, but Louise Mathias had more of a test in her semi-final match with her doubles partner, Shinan Zhang. Serin Hartopp won the Plate.

In the Doubles Louise Mathias & Shinan Zhang notched up their fifth title together, Shinan’s seventh in a row. In the Plate Phoebe Thornhill & Eleonora Vallascas won all their matches to take the trophy comfortably and deservedly.

Singles

1st round: Louise Hawkins bt Katie Parry 11-5, 11-2; Maddy Raynor bt Florence Byng 11-0, 11-2; Savanna Leboff bt Izzy Gair 11-0, 11-; Eleonora Vallascas bt Leonie Brown 11-0, 11-0; Ivany Mebou Talla bt Emily Hodgson 11-1, 11-0; Evelyn Terry bt Antonia Martino 11-2, 11-0; Phoebe Thornhill bt Ellie Ranson 11-2, 11-0; Lizzie Ware bt Serin Hartopp 11-0, 11-2; Zara Elliot bt Nicole Awad 11-0, 11-0; Julie McIntyre bt Harriet Fearon 11-1, 11-4; Catherine Abercrombie bt Emily Palmer 11-4, 11-3
2nd round: Camille Beattie bt Hawkins 11-0, 11-0; Raynor bt Leboff 1-11, 12-10, 12-10; Kirsten Bell bt Vallascas 11-5, 11-0; Helena Tunks bt Talla 11-3, 11-3; Louise Mathias bt Terry 11-0, 11-0; Ware bt Thornhill 11-5, 11-8; Elliot bt McIntyre 11-0, 11-0; Shinan Zhang bt Abercrombie 11-0, 11-0
Quarter-finals: Beattie bt Raynor 15-1, 15-1; Bell bt Tunks 15-9, 15-11; Mathias bt Ware 15-1, 15-4; Zhang bt Elliot 15-5, 15-2
Semi-finals: Beattie bt Bell 15-2, ret.; Mathias bt Zhang 15-9, 15-8
Final: Camille Beattie bt Louise Mathias 10-15, 15-5, 15-4

Plate

Group A: 1st Hartopp W3; 2nd Parry W2; 3rd Brown W1; 4th Awad
Group B: 1st Hodgson W4; 2nd Ranson W3; 3rd Fearon W2; 4th Byng W1; 5th Martino
Final: Serin Hartopp bt Emily Hodgson 15-4, 15-0

Doubles

1st round: Hodgson & Terry bt Awad & Martino 15-0, 15-2
Quarter-finals: Mathias & Zhang bt Hodgson & Terry 15-0, 15-0; Elliot & Leboff bt Thornhill & Vallascas 15-5, 15-3; Bell & Ware bt Abercrombie & Parry 15-0, 15-0; Beattie & Tunks bt Byng & Ranson 15-0, 15-1
Semi-finals: Mathias & Zhang bt Elliot & Leboff 15-9, 15-7; Beattie & Tunks bt Bell & Ware 15-4, 15-12
Final: Louise Mathias & Shinan Zhang bt Camille Beattie & Helena Tunks 15-5, 15-10

Plate: 1st Thornhill & Vallascas W4; 2nd Hodgson & Terry W3; 3rd Abercrombie & Parry W2; 4th Byng & Ranson W1; 5th Awad & Martino