A lower than anticipated level of entry did nothing to detract from a highly competitive Cippenham Women and Girls 1-Star Open on Sunday.

The fourth annual running of this event followed the same format as previous seasons with age group, over-21 and under-21, events in the morning followed by a fully open event in the afternoon.

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The main event saw thirteen competitors organised into four preliminary round groups from which the first and second-placed players entered the main draw while the others played in a consolation event.

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Top seed Holly Holder emerged from the first group with Simona Vassileva as runner-up while second seed Anita Jermyn and Bethany Yang did likewise from group two, the other qualifiers being Chaoba Thounaojan and Grace Liu from group three and Bhanu Sabaratnam and Molly Brown from group four.

The two seeded player both duly progressed through their quarter-finals with 3-1 victories, Holder over Yang and Jermyn over Vassileva. Brown beat Thounaojam, after coming back from 2-1 down, while Liu was unfortunately injured and conceded her match to Sabaratnam.

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The semi-finals were more straight-forward but Holder did need four games to eliminate Sabaratnam while Jermyn only needed three to do the same to Brown.

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The final produced a fierce, fast counter-hitting match which resulted in eventual triumph 3-0 for Anita Jermyn although Holly Holder had chances to win the first game which ended at deuce.

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Earlier on in the day, Holly Holder had tasted success when she won the Over-21 Singles. The same two seeded players came through their groups although Holder only just survived 13-11 in the fifth against Chloe Ireland, who went on to win the cionsolation event, and Anita Jermyn was beaten by Chaoba Thounaojam.

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That defeat pitched Jermyn against Holder in the semi-final and, unlike the result later in the day, this time it was Holder who was triumphant and she then went on to beat Thounaojam over four games in the final.

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The Under-21 event was played as a round-robin between the five contestants. Grace Liu was the eventual winner but she did have to survive two five-game matches against Bethany Yang, who finished as runner-up, and Molly Brown who finished fourth.

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The event was organised by Margaret Thornton and refereed by Sue Hayes.