Isabelle Joubelly admitted to feeling proud of herself after retaining her U16s individual title at the Jack Petchey London Schools' table tennis finals.

The 15-year-old from Wallington Girls School beat Sarah Menghistab from Brent’s Capital City Academy in the final (11-7 8-11 11-6 11-4).

Ranked eighth in the 14 to 16-year-old cadet class, Joubeilly wants to play for England.

She said: “This is a good fun event and you get good matches. I feel very proud of myself.”

In the boys’ U19 final Richard Pelc, 17, from Cheam High School came from 2-1 down to beat Kevin Fang from Latimer School 3-2 (11-5 8-11 7-11 11-6 11-9).

The Sutton student said: “This was my first time in the competition. I enjoyed it and it was good fun but I couldn’t get my backhand going in the final. I did well to win.”

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On top form: Richard Pelc with Jack Petchey