Leona Lee stormed to the ladies’s singles title on the Spanish Worldwide as Nadeem Dalvi reached the showpiece occasion within the males’s singles.
Lee took out the highest seed en path to the ultimate in Blanca Dona, the place she recovered from a match to take gold.
Towards Denmark’s Sofie Karmann, who’s 218 locations above Lee within the BWF World Rankings, the Stevenage-born shuttler triumphed 17-21, 21-16, 21-17.
After shedding the opening match, the world quantity 550 constructed a wholesome lead within the second and received the match by 4 straight factors.
Within the decider, Lee was by no means greater than three factors behind earlier than a scorching streak put her in a dominant place and he or she wrapped up the win on the first time of asking.
Lee reached the ultimate by eliminating Belgian high seed Clara Lassaux with a 21-18, 16-21, 22-20 victory after recording back-to-back victories within the first three rounds.
Within the showpiece occasion, Dalvi misplaced 21-17 21-16 to the seventh seed to finish a formidable marketing campaign with a silver medal.
Dalvi defeated residence favourite Alvaro Leal of Spain 21-17, 21-15 within the semi-finals and defeated one other seed, Amaury Lievre of France, in a quarter-final decider.
Robin Harper and Harry Wakefield superior from the qualifiers to the semi-finals of the boys’s doubles in Blanca Dona.
The pair did not drop a sport within the first two rounds earlier than needing a decider in opposition to France’s Natan Begga and Baptiste Labarthe to achieve the quarter-finals.
The duo received 21-17 16-21 21-14 earlier than assembly Denmark’s Mads Gadegaard and Oliver Geisler within the final 4.
Harper and Wakefield took the lead and had been deep into the second sport earlier than a late rally from Gadegaard and Geisler hit again to advance to the ultimate 17-21 22-20 21-13.
Oliver Butler and Ben Jarvis reached the second spherical of the boys’s doubles, the place they served for the match in opposition to Francisco Olivares and Jaume Perez, finally shedding 21-17 15-21 23-21.
Fifth seed Lisa Curtin reached the quarter-finals of the ladies’s singles, dealing with second seed Frederikke Ostergaard in an exciting match.
Curtin received the primary sport and served for the match within the second earlier than Ostergaard pressured a decider and overturned one other deficit, successful 5 factors in a row to take victory 17-21, 22-20, 21-19 and half attain the finals.
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Qualifier Tashvi Parab additionally featured within the ladies’s singles, reaching the second spherical with a 21-15 21-15 win over seventh seed Katrin Neudolt earlier than shedding to eventual finalist Sofie Karmann.
Oliver Butler and Chloe Dennis survived a decider in opposition to Wessel van der Aar and Kirsten de Wit of the Netherlands within the opening spherical of the combined doubles.
The English duo took the primary sport however got here again within the second, however pulled away with six straight factors within the decider to take victory 21-19 18-21 21-17 earlier than shedding in three video games within the second spherical.
Dennis additionally competed within the ladies’s doubles alongside Lee, with the duo defeated within the first spherical.