TOP seed Charlotte Bardsley dominated the field to win gold at the PG Mutual Cadet and Junior National Championships.

The 15-year-old Stourbridge athlete, only dropped one set in the Junior Girls’ Singles, and that when she was already 3-0 up in the final against fourth seed Jasmin Wong.

Wong had won the younger Cadet title the previous day and was a dangerous opponent, but Bardsley was in no mood to let her standards slip as she closed out the title 4-1 (11-3, 11-8, 11-2, 7-11, 12-10) to ‘upgrade’ from the Cadet trophy she won last year.

Bardsley, who attends Heathfield School in Wolverley, said she had been motivated by disappointments in the Girls’ Doubles and Mixed Doubles, where despite being top seeds, she and her partners could not reach the finals.

In the former, Wong and partner Ruby Chan got the better of Bardsley & Megan Gidney 3-2 (14-16, 11-7, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9) in the semi-finals.

In the Mixed, Bardsley and Ethan Walsh missed two match points as they went out in the quarter-finals to Jamie Liu and Chan, again 3-2 (6-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 12-10).

Bardsley said: “First of all, I'd like to say thanks to my coaches and parents, I'm grateful for their support. Everyone played really well and I had some tough matches.

“In the doubles, I think we played well and were a bit unlucky to lose 3-2 on both occasions. I knew I had one more chance to win a title in the singles and I wanted to make it count.”