Kent’s Luke Savill won silver and bronze at the Cadet & Junior National Championships.

The 16-year-old from Maidstone was seeded second in both junior singles and doubles at the event in Huddersfield.

And things went according to seeding as he and partner Emily Bolton reached the mixed doubles final.

They faced top seeds Tom Jarvis & Tin-Tin Ho and although they levelled after losing the first game, they were ultimately beaten 3-1 (11-3, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7).

Savill said: “It was nice to get to the final but a shame we couldn’t win it – we both played okay.”

But Savill was disappointed to lose in the semi-finals of the singles, seeing a 3-1 lead slip away as third seed Alex Ramsden came back to win in arguably the best match of the day.

The pair traded blows in a series of scintillating rallies, with same fabulous retrieving on both sides of the table.

When Savill moved 3-1 ahead, it was the cue for Ramsden to receive a yellow card for hitting a barrier with his bat.

But it also proved a turning point as the left-hander begun to claw his way back on claim the win by a scoreline of 4-3 (14-12, 8-11, 9-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6), leaving Savill to settle for bronze.

Meanwhile, top seed James Smith had to settle for silver. The Orpington 15-year-old justified his seeding by reaching the Cadet boys’ singles final, where he played fourth seed Harry Dai.

Smith had beaten Dai in the last 16 of the older age group Junior event the previous day but this time the tables were turned as Dai put in a front-foot performance to eventually overpower Smith 4-2 (12-10, 6-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-6).

There was disappointment in the doubles too as Smith and Ethan Walsh, the top seeds were surprisingly beaten 3-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-8) in the semi-finals by Sam Chesterman and Amirul Hussain. Bronze medals were not awarded in the doubles.

There was a bonus in the team competition though – a test event this year – when Smith was part of the E-BATT team which won gold, beating Grantham College 3-2 in the final.

In the Junior singles, Smith was beaten in six sets in the quarter-finals by fourth seed Josh Bennett. In the doubles, Smith and Walsh went out in the quarter-finals.

In the mixed doubles, Smith and Denise Payet were beaten in quarter-finals by eventual champions Tom Jarvis and Tin-Tin Ho.

Pictures supplied by Trevor Parsons.