England finish on a high to seal top-20 place at U13 European Championships

September 29, 2025 | Paul Stimpson

England finished the team event at the European Under-13 Championships in Sweden inside the top 20 as they ended their campaign with two victories.

In the bracket for 19th to 22nd positions, England first overcame Luxembourg 3-2. Sinan Surensoy & Amber Lemmon combined to win the opening doubles, but Assil Sarri was defeated in three deuce games by Nora Cattazzo.

Dimitar Dimitrov restored Englandâ€s advantage by beating Mattis Goedert in four, but they were again pegged back as Kinda Mostafa edged out Lemmon 11-7 in the fifth. It was left to Surensoy to seal the win by beating Noah Valente in three, pulling away after taking the first 14-12.

Dimitar Dimitrov with coach Charlotte Carey

England then faced Moldova for 19th position and had to come from 2-0 down to win 3-2 after Dimitrov & Lemmon lost the doubles in four and Sarri lost a close match in the fifth to Maria Coroliuc.

Surensoy started the comeback with a 3-2 win over Mikita Martinov – 11-5 in the fifth – and Lemmon levelled up by beating Andreea Prohorovici in three.

Dimitrov lost his first game 14-16 against Nicolae Bucur but battled back to win three tight games to seal a 3-1 (14-16, 13-11, 11-9, 12-10) scoreline and complete Englandâ€s victory.

Dimitrov, seeded ninth, was also Englandâ€s best performer in the singles events, reaching the last 16, though he had to battle back from 2-0 down to beat Julian Dedeken of Belgium in the group stage.

He went on to win his last-32 match before going out to sixth seed Joel Isaksson of host nation Sweden, who won 3-1 (12-14, 12-10, 11-5, 13-11).

Surensoy reached the knockout stage as group runner-up – and he went toe-to-toe with fourth seed Filip Nagy in his final group match, eventually losing 3-1 (7-11, 12-14, 10-12, 12-10). He was drawn against Mihai Iordan of Romania, the 10th seed, in the round of 64 and went out in four games.

In the Girls†Singles, neither Sarri nor Lemmon could qualify for the main draw, though Sarri picked up a good win over the higher-ranked Kleio Madesi of Greece.

Both went on to reach the second round of the consolation event, where they exited the competition, Lemmon in a 3-2 (11-13, 11-2, 9-11, 14-12, 13-11) battle against Maria Coroliuc of Romania.

In the Mixed Doubles, Dimitrov & Lemmon reached the round of 32, where they fell to 10th seeds Simon Clin & Lisa Zhao of France. Surensoy & Sarri went out in the round of 64 to the 20th-ranked pair from Slovakia.

England squad, from left: Dimitar Dimitrov, Sinan Surensoy, Assil Sarri, Amber Lemmon

Results

Mixed Team
Positions 19-22
England 3 Luxembourg 2
Sinan Surensoy & Amber Lemmon bt Noah Valente & Kinda Mostafa 3-1 (7-11, 11-9, 17-15, 11-1)
Nora Cattazzo bt Assil Sarri 3-0 (12-10, 12-10, 14-12)
Dimitar Dimitrov bt Mattis Goedert 3-1 (11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 11-4)
Mostafa bt Lemmon 3-2 (13-11, 5-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-7)
Surensoy bt Valente 3-0 (14-12, 11-6, 11-7)

Positions 19-20
England 3 Moldova 2
Nicolae Bucur & Andreea Prohorovici bt Dimitrov & Lemmon 3-1 (8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8)
Maria Coroliuc bt Sarri 3-2 (12-10, 5-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-7)
Surensoy bt Nikita Martinov 3-2 (9-11, 11-6, 11-3, 7-11, 11-5)
Lemmon bt Prohorovici 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-6)
Dimitrov bt Bucur 3-1 (14-16, 13-11, 11-9, 12-10)

Boys†Singles
Group 4
Sinan Surensoy bt Tomas Matsuka (CZE) 3-2 (11-4, 10-12, 7-11, 11-7, 11-9)
Surensoy bt Ivan Smiljanic (CRO) 3-1 (15-17, 11-3, 11-9, 13-11)
Filip Nagy (SVK) bt Surensoy 3-1 (11-7, 14-12, 10-12, 12-10)

Group 9
Dimitar Dimitrov bt Richard Feber (CZE) 3-0 (11-8, 14-12, 11-8)
Dimitrov bt Juraj De Miguel (SVK) 3-0 (16-14, 11-9, 12-10)
Dimitrov bt Julian Dedeken (BEL) 3-2 (5-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-5, 11-6)

Round of 64
Mihai Iordan (ROU) bt Surensoy 3-1 (6-11, 11-3, 12-10, 11-8)

Round of 32
Dimitrov bt Ignacy Slawinski (POL) 3-1 (11-7, 15-17, 11-8, 12-10)

Round of 16
Joel Isaksson (SWE) bt Dimitrov 3-1 (12-14, 12-10, 11-5, 13-11)

Girls†Singles
Group 11
Lotta Rothfuss (GER) bt Amber Lemmon 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-5)
Kinda Mostafa (LUX) bt Lemmon 3-1 (5-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6)
Belinay Davus (TUR) bt Lemmon 3-0 (11-5, 11-3, 11-8)

Group 8
Bianca Toma (ROU) bt Assil Sarri 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 12-10)
Sarri bt Kleio Madesi (GRE) 3-1 (11-3, 14-12, 9-11, 11-8)
Ela Su Yonter (TUR) bt Sarri 3-0 (11-5, 11-6, 11-3)

Girls†Singles Consolation
Round of 64
Lemmon bt Helena Kamaradova 3-0 (11-6, 11-5, 11-7)

Round of 32
Maria Coroliuc (ROU) bt Lemmon 3-2 (11-13, 11-2, 9-11, 14-12, 13-11)
Elpida Tasiou (GRE) bt Sarri 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-6)

Mixed Doubles
Round of 64
Juraj De Miguel & Vivien Murkova (SVK) bt Sinan Surensoy & Assil Sarri 3-1 (11-9, 11-13, 11-7, 11-5)
Dimitrov & Lemmon bt Marat Fjodorov & Arina Sokolova (EST) 3-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-4)

Round of 32
Simon Clin & Lisa Zhao (FRA) bt Dimitrov & Lemmon 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-6)

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