The Regional u11-u14 South East qualification tournament took place at Byng Hall, Tonbridge, Kent on Saturday 14^th April with 38 young boys looking to book their places at the National u-11-u14 championship finals in Wolverhampton.

The U-11 event was a round robin between 5 players and Hammad Ansari from Kent came out on top winning all 4 of his matches. The other qualifiers were Michael Tunubu, Chamika Weerasinghe and Liam Smith.

The U-12 event saw Ben Foster win all his matches to finish 1^st and secure his place with Reiss Vydelingum 2^nd,  Marcus Bracey 3^rd and George Hazell 4^th.

The U-13 event was fiercely contested with Sam Lu unluckily missing out after losing a close encounter with his county team mate Marcus Bracey and then losing two close in the 5^th games to Ben Foster and Robert Stewart. Jack Merton showed his class by winning all his matches 3-0 and finishing 1^st. Marcus Bracey improved his u-12 performance by finishing 2^nd in the u-13’s and both Ben Foster and Robert Stewart completed the 4 qualifiers.

In the U-14 event Josh Bennett won group 1, dropping just the one set to Robert Stewart. Group 2 saw Blair Phillip beat the highly rated Adam Corell 3-0 to win the group. In group 3 Olamide Wuraola beat the inform Tom Windram. The winners of all 3 groups secured their places in the National finals and played a final group to confirm their finishing positions. Josh Bennett remained undefeated in 1^st place with Olamide 2^nd and Blair 3^rd. Six other players contested the 4^th-9^th positions and the final coveted place in the finals. Tom Windram went on to win all his remaining matches including a close 5 set match with Shaquille Dixon to secure the 4^th spot.